Deck Builder in Houston, TX

What we build

Wood decks: pressure-treated pine for value, and cedar where the look and natural rot resistance are worth the premium. Board-and-rail, with stairs and built-in details.

Composite deck installation: capped composite and PVC boards that don't rot, don't need sealing, and hold up to Houston UV and humidity — the low-maintenance choice.

Elevated and second-story decks: raised decks off the back of the house, with proper posts, bracing, stairs, and code-height guardrails.

Pool decks: slip-resistant surfaces around the water, graded to drain away from the house and the pool coping.

Repairs: rotted boards, loose or wobbly railings, failing stairs, and the ledger and post problems that make an old deck unsafe.

Wood or composite in Houston

The tradeoff here is cost now versus maintenance forever, and Houston's climate sharpens it.

Wood costs less up front. Pressure-treated pine is the budget choice; cedar costs more and resists rot naturally. Either one needs sealing or staining every couple of years to survive Houston humidity and UV — skip that and wood grays, cracks, and rots faster here than in a dry climate.

Composite costs more up front and effectively nothing after. It doesn't rot, doesn't feed the mildew that grows on everything here, and never needs sealing — you wash it. Over the life of the deck in this climate, composite often wins on total cost, which is why it's taken over so much of the market. We'll give you the honest number both ways.

Footings, framing, and why decks fail here

Everything about how long a Houston deck lasts happens below the boards. Clay soil swells when wet and shrinks when dry, and a footing that isn't deep enough moves with it, so the deck racks and the stairs pull away over a couple of seasons.

The most important — and most commonly botched — detail is the ledger, where an attached deck bolts to the house. Done wrong, without proper flashing, it traps water against the framing and rots the band of the house the deck hangs from. That's not just a deck failure; it's structural damage to the home, and it's how attached decks pull off walls. We flash and attach ledgers correctly, use ground-contact-rated lumber where it belongs, and size and set footings for the load and the soil.

Elevated, second-story, and pool decks

Raising a deck changes the engineering. An elevated or second-story deck needs posts and bracing sized for the height and load, guardrails at code height, and stairs built to code rise and run — this is where a cheap build becomes a safety issue, because a raised deck that fails doesn't fail gently.

Pool decks have their own rules: the surface has to be slip-resistant wet, and the whole deck has to shed water away from both the house and the pool so runoff isn't carrying dirt into the water or moisture toward the foundation. We build for how the deck actually gets used — bare feet, wet surfaces, and Houston sun.

Deck repair versus rebuild

Not every tired deck needs to come down. Rotted boards, loose railings, and worn stairs are straightforward repairs when the structure underneath is sound.

The question is always the framing and the footings. If the posts are rotting at grade, the ledger is compromised, or the footings are moving, replacing the boards on top is money spent on a deck that's failing underneath — and on a raised deck, that's a safety problem, not a cosmetic one. We tell you honestly whether you're looking at a repair or whether the deck has reached the end and a rebuild is the right call.

What a deck costs in Houston

In the Houston market, installed: a pressure-treated wood deck generally runs about $20 to $40 per square foot, and a composite deck about $35 to $60 per square foot, with the spread driven by board grade and detail. A simple ground-level wood deck starts near the bottom; a composite deck with railings, stairs, and built-ins runs toward the top.

What moves your number: wood versus composite, height — elevated and second-story decks cost more per square foot because of the posts, bracing, and stairs — railing style and length, site access, and whether an old deck has to be torn out and hauled off first. These are ranges, not quotes. We price after seeing the space and the soil.