The Area's Number One Rated Deck Installation

Bell Footings Below Frost — The Real Foundation

Every deck starts with a real footing plan. The contractor we match you with pour every footing below frost depth, in poured-in-place concrete, and we let them cure before any framing goes up. Surface-set deck blocks have no place on a deck attached to a house, and we will not bid a job that uses them — which is also why our most common deck replacement calls start with pulling out a deck someone else built that way.

That alone puts our quotes higher than some of what is out there, and we will not move on it. Your kids are going to be jumping on this thing in five years. The footings need to be there.

The Ledger Is Where Decks Fail — We Flash Every One

The ledger is the most important detail on any house-attached deck, and it is also the most often abused. We attach every ledger with structural fasteners — never deck screws — at the spacing the code calls for, and we flash the top with z-flashing tucked under the siding before any joist touches it. Almost every deck collapse you read about in the trade press traces back to a ledger that was nailed instead of bolted, or flashed with nothing.

There is a reason every deck-collapse story makes the news. We do not give you that story.

Framing With Simpson Hangers and Manufacturer Nails

Framing happens after the ledger is in. We size every joist to the actual span on the build, hang every joist with a code-rated steel connector, and use the manufacturer's specified nails through every hole on the connector. Drywall screws, deck screws, and toe-nails do not belong in a structural connection.

We do not use them on framing, and we will not patch in a job that did. Connectors are cheap. Doing it right takes minutes.

Skipping it puts the deck on a clock.

Decking Boards That Shed Water Instead of Holding It

Decking goes on after the framing passes our own walk-through. Hidden fasteners on cedar wood decks and composite decks, hot-dipped or stainless ring-shank on pressure-treated decks, board orientation that puts the cup of the wood in the right direction so it sheds water instead of pooling it. We hand-pick every board at the supplier and reject the ones with checks or loose knots before they ever come off the truck.

The decking is what you walk on every day. We treat it like the finish carpentry it is.

Railings, Stairs, and the Inspector Walk-Through

Railings, stairs, and finish details close out the build. The local contractors we work with set baluster spacing to current code, hold stair rise and run within the half-inch variance the code allows, and walk the inspector through the framing inspection ourselves. Then vetted contractors in our network walk the deck with you one more time, hand off the warranty card, and load the truck — the same close-out we run on every job from Roswell to Cumming.

The inspector signs off, you get a deck, and we do not see each other again until you ask us back to build the screened-in upgrade.