Grand Prairie, TX · About
About Us
We build and repair decks, patio covers and pergolas across Grand Prairie, Dallas County and the ring of towns around it.
How We Work
Nothing gets priced from a phone call or a photograph. Someone comes and stands in the space, because the four things that move a deck price most — the height of the door above the ground, how far the structure has to span, what the ground is, and how a vehicle reaches the work — are all invisible from a description.
Where rock is plausible, which in the southern half of Grand Prairie is often, we put a test hole down at the actual post positions before quoting. That is the single most common reason a deck price moves after it has been agreed, and an hour of digging removes it.
The quote then splits the structure from the surface on separate lines, and names the products rather than describing them. That lets you compare it fairly against anyone else's, and it means that if the figure is too high there is a real conversation to be had about the surface instead of a quiet reduction in the footings.
A City That Is Thirty Miles Long
Grand Prairie is a narrow strip running north to south between Dallas and Arlington, and the ground is not the same at both ends. In the north and east it is the deep expansive clay that most of Dallas County sits on — it swells and shrinks with the seasons, and a footing that does not reach below the moving layer travels with it. On the higher ground toward the south, rock turns up at footing depth instead.
Those are opposite problems. Clay means digging deep to escape movement. Rock means a foundation that will never move at all, and a hole that an auger cannot make. Which is why we ask where you are before we say anything about price, and why we would rather test than assume.
The one thing that applies across the whole city is shade. A deck with nothing over it is a deck that gets used in spring and autumn and avoided in between, so we would rather discuss the cover alongside the deck than a year later, when the posts are already in the wrong places.
Things We Will Not Put On This Page
No photographs of other people's decks described as our projects, no testimonials we did not receive, and no awards. Where an image is here to show a material or a style, it is labelled as exactly that, because a picture of somebody else's work tells you nothing true about yours.
No permit fees and no approval times either. Those numbers change, and they are not the same in Grand Prairie as in Arlington, Mansfield or Cedar Hill — a figure published here would be read as a commitment we are in no position to make. We find out what applies to your address and put it in the quote in writing instead.
And no averages. Every contractor's website has a price per square foot, and on a job where height, span and ground conditions move the figure more than area does, that number is decoration.
If anything in a quote is unclear, ask about it. A deck holds a group of people several feet in the air for twenty years, and nobody should be agreeing to one they do not understand.
What We Do
Deck Building
A deck is a structure that has to hold a group of people several feet in the air for twenty years, wearing a d…
Deck Repair
Most decks that look finished are not. If the frame and the connection to the house are sound, replacing the s…
Patio Covers
A solid cover is what turns an outdoor space from somewhere you use twice a year into part of the house. It al…
Pergolas
A pergola is the cheapest real shade there is, and the difference between one that works and one that is decor…
Pool Decks
A pool deck is wet, barefoot and in full sun, and the three requirements that follow from that — grip, a surfa…
Deck Staining
Ninety per cent of a good finish is what happens before the first coat goes on. Staining a deck that has not b…