Decks That Survive Santee Sun and Santa Ana Winds
We build and repair wood and composite decks across Santee and East County, from a 10x12 platform off the kitchen to a full multi-level deck over a slope.
A quick look at the deck work we handle most.
A new deck sized and framed for the way you'll actually use the yard.
Soft boards, wobbly rails and squeaky stairs fixed without tearing out the whole deck.
Stripped, sanded and resealed so the sun stops bleaching your boards.
Multi-level layouts, built-in benches and stairs planned before any lumber shows up.
Trex and TimberTech boards installed with the fastening they actually require.
Cable, wood or composite railing set to current height and spacing code.
We build and repair decks for homeowners around Santee, from a simple ground-level platform to a deck stacked two stories over a sloped backyard. Most people who call us have one of two problems: the deck they have is twenty years old and the boards are cupping and the railing wobbles, or they want a deck that doesn't exist yet and don't know where to start on layout. Either way you're trying to figure out if the structure under the boards is sound, because that's the part you can't see from the yard. We spend more time talking about joists and footings than about railing style, because that's the part that actually fails.
We pull the ledger board on older decks more often than homeowners expect, because that's where water gets behind the flashing and the rim joist rots from the inside out. On new builds we set footings below grade to local code and run joists at 16 inches on center even when the board manufacturer allows 24, because San Diego sun dries composite and wood both and tighter spacing keeps the deck from bouncing in five years. We cut our own stair stringers on site instead of using a stock kit, so the rise and run actually match your steps instead of the other way around.
Based in Santee, working across East County and beyond.
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Most of our work comes from someone telling a neighbor about us. Here is why that keeps happening.
We carry the license and insurance a deck project should have.
We pull the permit and schedule the inspection, you don't have to.
No pile of sawdust and screws left in your yard when we leave.
You get a written quote with lumber and labor broken out, not a guess.
The same crew that frames your deck finishes it, start to end.
We build for Santee heat and wind, not a catalog spec sheet.
Had a soft spot by the back door for two years and kept telling myself it was fine. Turned out the ledger board was rotted clean through, glad they caught it before someone fell through.
Had to push the start date a week because of rain, which was annoying, but the stain job looks even and the gray boards actually look like wood again. I'm out in Lakeside and wasn't sure anyone would drive out, but they did.
New deck off the kitchen in Santee, composite boards, no gaps where the old one used to creak. Took a bit longer than expected but the railing is solid, doesn't move at all.
Questions people usually ask before calling.
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