Decks & Patios across Middle Tennessee

Decks & Patios across Middle Tennessee

Deck builders who set the footings deep, flash the ledger, and would rather tell you what a deck costs than what it starts at.

Deck builders serving Nashville also build in Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville — 65 towns across 12 counties. The houses are not the same in any two of those towns, and neither is the deck building work:

• Nashville. On a pre-war house the deck is often a porch rebuild, and matching the proportions, the railing height and the details to a hundred-year-old facade is design work as much as carpentry.
• Brentwood. Eighties and nineties decks are at the age where the frame is questionable even when the boards were replaced once; an inspection of the joists and the ledger comes before any quote.
• Murfreesboro. Newer houses came with the builder’s minimum deck — a landing and steps — and the job is usually a larger replacement that uses the existing door and needs its own footings.
• Hendersonville. Older houses have had a deck or two already, and the first job is checking what the last builder attached to; ledgers into rotten rim joists are common and the fix is structural.
• Columbia. On a pre-war house the deck is often a porch rebuild, and matching the proportions, the railing height and the details to a hundred-year-old facade is design work as much as carpentry.
• Lebanon. Rural decks and porches wrap farmhouses and look over acreage, and the build is larger, freer of HOA rules and often phased.