How We Ended Up Building Decks for a Living
We design and build decks, and we fix the ones other people built that are starting to fail. Most of our work is for homeowners in Lincoln and the towns around it who want to actually use their backyard instead of staring at a slab of cracked wood through the window. We got into this trade because framing a deck right, one that won't bounce or cup or pull away from the house, is harder than it looks and we like getting it right.
If you're on this page, there's a decent chance a board is cupping, a post is wobbling, or the ledger board where the deck meets the house has gone soft from water sitting behind the siding. We pull the skirt boards and check the ledger flashing on every repair job before we touch anything cosmetic, because refinishing a deck that's rotting from the inside just hides the problem for a season. The same goes for new builds: footings go below grade, joists get hung with galvanized or stainless hardware depending on what's touching treated lumber, and the structure gets built to hold the deck up for decades, not just pass a look-over.
