Deck Builder in Utah County and Salt Lake County
Decks, railings, stairs and the outdoor space around them. It is the same trade as the courts we build — ground that is not level, water that has to go somewhere, and something that has to still be square in ten years.
Ground that is not level
A deck is usually the answer to a slope rather than something built on a flat pad. Where terrain rolls — and it does as you get closer to the mountains — part of a deck can be carried on legs to bridge the uneven section and keep the finished surface flat, rather than regrading the whole area to suit it.
That is cheaper than moving the ground and it leaves the garden as it was.
Composite rather than timber
Composite decking costs more to lay and lasts longer without work. Through a Utah winter that difference compounds: no annual sanding and sealing, and no soft boards to replace in five years.
Railings we build in wrought iron or aluminium. Carrying the same railing across the deck, the stairs and any patio makes the whole thing read as one piece of work rather than three.
More than the deck
Most of these jobs are not a deck on its own. A hot tub set into the framing, a fire pit built into the surface, steps down to grade, a flagstone entryway running up to it, posts framing the space — designed together, they work as one area. Added one at a time afterwards, they rarely do.
We build these year round
Court surfacing is the one thing that is genuinely seasonal: acrylic needs summer heat to cure properly between coats, so a court has to be finished inside the warm months. Decking does not. Neither does the framing, the railing or the stonework around it.
So this is work we take on through the year, conditions allowing — and the quiet months are often the easiest time to have it done.
Stairs and exterior timber
Exterior stairs are their own problem: the rise has to be consistent, the landing has to meet the door, and the whole run has to stay square through freeze-thaw. We build them in timber with matching handrails both sides.
Decks we have built
Deck and Railing
A new house that wanted a deck and a matching patio deck, with a hot tub on the lower one. Both are composite rather than timber, which is the longer-lived choice, and the wrought iron railing carries across the deck, the stairs and the patio so the whole thing reads as one piece of work rather than three. The ground decided the patio. This is not the flat part of Mapleton — closer to the mountain it rolls, and the patio sits across a section that is not level. Rather than fight that, part of the patio deck is carried on legs, which bridges the uneven ground and keeps the finished surface flat. Most of Mapleton is flatter than this. It changes as you get up towards the mountains.
Provo Commercial Deck, Hot Tub and Fire Pit
A whole outdoor space for a property let as a short-term rental — not a fire pit with things placed around it, but a deck, a hot tub, a fire pit, steps, a flagstone entryway and the posts for the covered area, designed together. The deck is composite and runs at more than one level, with the transitions and stairs built into it. The fire pit sits down into the deck surface, the hot tub into the raised section by the doors, and the flat rock entryway runs up to meet it. A hot tub is the part that changes what happens underneath. The water has to be drained deliberately away from the property rather than left to find its own way out, and the pipework has to be insulated — Provo's clay and its freeze-thaw cycle will find anything that is not. The photographs are winter: bare trees, snow at the edge of the deck, the pool covered.
Wood Exterior Staircase
They wanted stairs and they had a budget. We recommended composite — it lasts longer and asks less of you — but composite costs more, the budget was the constraint, and so we built in timber and told them what that means. What it means here is maintenance. Hot dry summers pull the moisture out of exterior timber, and wood stairs in Spanish Fork only reach their full life if they are kept treated. Left alone they will not. Matching handrails run both sides down to the concrete walk, with a landing at the top meeting the door. Built in July 2014 — the oldest job on this site.
Where we have built
We work across Utah County, Salt Lake County and Summit County. These are the towns we have already built in and written a page about — what a job takes changes with where it is, so each one covers the grade, the soil, the setbacks and what has to come out first in that town.