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Deck Builders in South Fulton, GA

We build, repair, and refinish decks across South Fulton, from Cliftondale and Sandtown out to the Red Oak side. New decks, composite re-decks, rail and stair work, covered decks and screened porches. City permit and inspections handled. Call and we will walk it with you.

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How much does a deck cost per square foot in South Fulton, GA?

Around $25 to $45 per square foot installed for a pressure-treated deck in the Atlanta metro, and roughly $35 to $60 for capped composite. Height above grade, stair count, railing type, and footing work move the number more than square footage does. We price after a site walk, in writing.

What We Do

Deck Services in South Fulton

Six things we do all week: build new, repair old, swap the decking, refinish, roof it over, screen it in.

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Deck Building

New decks framed to the current Georgia residential code, permit and inspections handled.

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Deck Repair

Rotted joists, loose ledgers, spongy boards, wobbly rails. We find the cause before quoting.

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Composite Decking

Keep the frame, swap the surface. Capped composite and PVC over a repaired substructure.

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Deck Staining

Clean, brighten, then finish, once the wood is dry enough to actually take it.

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Covered Decks

A roof over the deck, checked first against what the existing posts and footings carry.

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Screened Porches

Screen an existing covered deck, or build the roof and the screen wall together.

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What Happens From Call to Final

Four steps, and two of them are inspections the city signs off before anything gets covered up.

1

The Call

Tell us the address, roughly how big, and what you want. We book a walkthrough, usually inside the week.

2

The Walk

We probe posts, joists and stringers with an awl, look hard at the ledger, and check how water leaves the deck.

3

The Price

One written price before anyone starts, with the permit line shown separately.

4

Build and Sign-Off

Footings inspected before concrete, framing inspected before decking. Permit card stays posted until final.

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LOCALOwned & Run

Why Do Decks Age Fast on South Fulton's Red Clay?

Three local things wear a deck down here. Humidity and about fifty inches of rain a year keep framing damp, which feeds rot and eats cheap fasteners. Summer sun on a south or west facing deck fades and checks stain fast. And Piedmont red clay swells and shrinks with the seasons, which is exactly why the city wants piers a foot into undisturbed soil rather than fill. We build new decks, repair and re-frame old ones, swap decking for composite, stain and seal, roof decks over, and screen porches in. Older communities like Red Oak and Campbellton carry decks built long before current ledger and guard rules.

  • ✓ City permit handled
  • ✓ 12-inch pier depth
  • ✓ Flashed ledger detail
  • ✓ Taped joists and beams
  • ✓ Hot-dip or stainless
  • ✓ Debris hauled, not burned
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Why Us

What Makes a Deck Last in South Fulton?

The frame, not the boards. A deck lasts here when water is kept out of the connections and the footings sit on soil that does not move. That means a ledger through-bolted and flashed so nothing reaches the band joist, hot-dip galvanized or stainless hardware instead of plain steel, joist tape over the framing tops, and piers driven a foot into undisturbed soil the way the city asks. Boards are the part you see, and the cheapest part to replace later. Framing is the expensive half, so that is where the care goes. Ask anyone who has pulled up a twenty-year-old deck: the boards were fine, the joists were not.

Permit first, not permit later

New decks and replacements go through the city's SagesGov portal before anyone digs a hole.

Footings a foot into undisturbed soil

The city's deck handout calls for piers 12 inches into undisturbed soil, bearing on firm ground. Fill does not count.

Ledgers flashed, never nailed on

Through-bolts or structural screws on the code's schedule, corrosion-resistant flashing behind them, and never onto brick veneer.

Hardware that survives modern treated wood

Today's copper-based treatment is roughly twice as hard on steel as the old CCA. Hot-dip galvanized or stainless, matched to the connectors.

Two inspections we plan the schedule around

Footings before the pour, framing before decking covers it. Those two gates are where corner-cutting shows up.

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Georgia's open-burning rule bars burning construction lumber year round, treated wood included. It goes to a permitted facility.

Our Promise

If I would not let my own family stand on it, I am not building it that way. You get one price in writing, the permit pulled properly, and a deck I am willing to come back and look at in five years.

Service Area

Deck Work Across South Fulton and Nearby

We cover all 92 square miles of South Fulton plus the towns around it, out to Palmetto and Chattahoochee Hills on one side, Riverdale and Fayetteville on the other. If your mail still says Atlanta, Fairburn, or Union City, you are almost certainly inside our area. No travel charge inside that ring.

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Questions

Deck Questions we get asked in South Fulton

Yes for a new deck or a replacement, and sometimes for a repair. The city's deck handout tells you to call the permit department and check whether your specific repair needs one. New decks also need a site plan approved by the Planning Department before the permit can issue, and applications go through the city's SagesGov portal.
Piers go a minimum of 12 inches into undisturbed soil and must bear on firm soil, per the city's deck handout. Fill does not count unless a Georgia registered engineer designs for it. Georgia's frost depth is shallow, so around here that depth is about bearing and about clay movement, not frost.
Roughly $25 to $45 per square foot installed for pressure-treated, and about $35 to $60 for capped composite, going by Atlanta metro pricing. What actually moves the number: height above grade, how many flights of stairs, linear feet of railing, and whether the shape is a plain rectangle or something with angles.
The current Georgia residential code, adopted statewide, plus whatever the City of South Fulton enforces at plan review. The city's deck handout also points at the manufacturer's instructions for composite decking, which set span and gap rules the code defers to. Worth knowing before you pick a board.
The city. Fulton County's planning and permitting for this area moved to the new city in 2017, and there is no unincorporated county left inside the boundary. Inspections are requested by email with your address, permit number, inspection type, and a contact number.
It goes to a permitted landfill or transfer station. Georgia's open-burning rule bars burning construction and demolition debris and lumber year round, and metro Atlanta counties including Fulton also sit under a summer burn ban. Anything built before 2004 is likely CCA-treated, which makes a burn pile a genuinely bad idea.
Often, yes. If the joists, beams, posts, and ledger are sound, a re-deck strips the surface, repairs and tapes the framing, and lays new boards. If the ledger or the support posts are rotted, that is a replacement and not a repair. We probe with an awl before quoting either one.
Plan review and permitting run first. The build itself is usually a few days to a couple of weeks depending on size, stair count, and railing. Two inspections set the pace: footings before the concrete goes in, framing before decking covers it up.
Yes. Winters here are mild enough to frame through, with a short slowdown in the coldest weeks. Staining is the seasonal part, because finish needs a dry substrate and moderate temperatures. Spring pollen and summer afternoon storms are what actually move a schedule around.
Yes. Georgia law requires a licensed residential contractor to offer a written warranty with a contract to build a single-family residence where the value tops $2,500. Whether a standalone deck triggers that statute has not been tested, so we put our workmanship terms in writing regardless.

Ready to Talk About Your Deck?

Send the address and a photo, or call and we will set a walkthrough. You get one written price, the permit handled, and a start date you can plan around.

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