A deck is the cheapest room you will ever add to your house. No foundation, no HVAC run, no drywall, and in Charlotte you get to use it eight or nine months a year. That is why it is the outdoor project that pays back the fastest.
Call (980) 391-6833 or request a free estimate to get it measured.
Built from the footings up
Most of the money in a deck goes into the part you never look at. Footings sized and set below frost line. Posts and beams carrying the load where they should. Joists hung with real hangers. And the ledger, where the deck bolts to the house, flashed so water runs out instead of into your framing.
Get that right and the deck lasts decades. Get it wrong and no amount of nice decking saves it. We build the structure first and treat the boards as the finish they are.
Choosing the material
- Pressure-treated pine. The lowest cost to build. Clean and seal it every couple of seasons and it serves you well.
- Cedar. Better looking, more stable, more resistant to rot. A step up without jumping to composite pricing.
- Composite. Roughly double the material cost of pressure-treated, and then you mostly stop thinking about it. No splinters, no sealing, no annual weekend lost to a sander.
We will price two of these side by side so the decision is yours and it is made on real numbers.
Ground level, elevated, or multi-level
A ground-level deck off a back door is the simplest and least expensive build. An elevated deck off a second-story door needs taller posts, deeper footings, a full stair run, and code-compliant railings, and it costs accordingly. Multi-level layouts are what we build when the yard slopes and one big flat platform would look like a stage.
Thinking about a roof over it?
Say so at the estimate. Framing a deck that will later carry a roof or screen walls is a small change now and an expensive retrofit later. Decks, covered porches, and screened porches are the same crew and the same conversation.