Custom Wood Decks
Pressure-treated pine and cedar decks built to your yard and grade, including multi-level layouts, stairs, and railing that meets code.
Custom decks and outdoor living
Pressure-treated, cedar, and composite decks designed around heat, humidity, and afternoon storms, built by a local crew in Monroe and West Monroe.
Built for the Delta
North Louisiana is hard on outdoor wood. Standing humidity, long stretches above ninety degrees, and heavy spring rain will find every shortcut in a deck's framing. We build for that: proper footings below the frost line, joists spaced and flashed so water drains instead of sitting, hardware rated for treated lumber, and fasteners that will not bleed rust down your boards after one season. The result costs a little more up front and holds its shape for years longer.
Services
Pressure-treated pine and cedar decks built to your yard and grade, including multi-level layouts, stairs, and railing that meets code.
Low-maintenance composite and PVC boards that will not splinter, warp, or need sanding and staining every other spring.
Board and joist replacement, footing and post repair, railing upgrades, and cleaning and re-sealing for decks worth saving.
Roofed porches, pergolas, and screened enclosures so the space is usable in August and through mosquito season.
Three simple steps
Tell us what you need and where the property is located.
We discuss the scope, practical options, and the next available step.
Approve the plan and arrange a time that works for the project.
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Common questions
Size, height off the ground, and material, in roughly that order. A ground-level platform and a raised deck of the same square footage are different builds, because height brings stairs, guard rails and heavier framing with it. What the ground is doing matters too — a slope or soft soil changes the footings before a single board goes down.
Wood costs less up front and needs cleaning and re-sealing to stay right. Composite costs more and mostly wants washing. In this climate that maintenance question is not academic: humidity and long hot spells are hard on exposed timber, so the real comparison is the build cost against the years of upkeep you are signing up for.
Pine is the budget-conscious option and takes treatment well. Cedar costs more, holds its shape better and resists insects and rot more readily. On a large deck the price gap is significant, which is why plenty of builds use treated pine for the framing nobody sees and something better for the surface you walk on.
It depends on the size, the height and where the property sits, and the rules differ between Monroe, West Monroe and the unincorporated parish. Check with your local permitting office before work starts. If there is an HOA, check with them too — they often set rules on materials and railings that the parish does not.
Longer than the boards suggest, if the framing and the footings were done properly, and not very long if they were not. Decks in this climate almost always fail from underneath — joists that hold water, posts set too shallow, or hardware that was not rated for treated lumber and rusted out. The surface is the part you see and the last part to go.
Often, and the test is the frame. Boards, railings and stairs are replaceable while the structure under them is sound. Once joists are soft, posts have moved, or footings have shifted, the arithmetic changes — replacing those means pulling the deck apart anyway. Push on the railing and walk the middle: if it moves, the problem is below the surface.
Monroe, West Monroe, Sterlington and the surrounding Ouachita Parish area. If you are just outside that and the project is a substantial one, ask rather than assuming.
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Tell us the size of the space, how you want to use it, and whether you are building new or repairing what is there. We will walk you through material options and what each one costs to keep up.
Serving Monroe, West Monroe, Sterlington, Ouachita Parish.