Deck & Porch Building in Woodstock, GA

Deck & Porch Building for Woodstock homes

The core of the stock is the Towne Lake build-out that began in the late 1980s: Eagle Watch, developed by Arvida around an Arnold Palmer golf course and filled in through the early 1990s, then Towne Lake Hills around the Arthur Hills course that opened in 1994, with Wyngate, Rose Creek and the rest following. These are mostly two-story traditional houses, often brick or stone on the front with lap siding on the sides and rear, set on rolling, wooded ground that drains toward Noonday Creek and the Little River arm of the lake. That grade is why so many have full or partial basements, some daylight or walkout, a lot of them still unfinished, and why tall rear decks are common. Downtown is the other end of the range: the Dean House from 1875, the 1894 Century House and early-1900s frame houses along streets like Rope Mill Road, now ringed by the townhomes and small-lot houses of the newer downtown build-out. The old houses mean wood clapboard, plaster and old paint layers; the new ones mean early repaints and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Woodstock

• Downtown Woodstock
• Towne Lake
• Eagle Watch
• Towne Lake Hills
• Wyngate
• Rose Creek

Near Elm Street Cultural Arts Village (Woodstock Arts), Olde Rope Mill Park, Dupree Park and across the rest of Woodstock.

Deck & Porch Building on Woodstock houses

Building a deck in Woodstock usually means building up. On the sloped lots across Towne Lake, the back door sits a full level or more above the yard, so a new deck needs tall posts, solid footings on a hillside and long stair runs down to the lawn or the walkout patio. Many owners are replacing the original deck from the late 1980s or 1990s, built the way decks were built then, with nails, a lightly fastened ledger and posts set straight in the ground. Others want a screened porch or a roofed deck over the walkout so the space underneath stays dry and usable. The tree cover means shade, needles and leaf litter, which shapes the choice between wood and composite.

What usually gets missed

The ledger is the connection that matters most. On the original decks it is often nailed to the rim joist without flashing, and thirty years of water can rot the rim behind it where nobody can see it from the deck. We take the old ledger off and inspect the house framing before attaching anything new. On a hillside, footings also need firm ground that runoff will not wash out, so we watch how water moves across the slope before laying them out.