Anyone have great connections or great experience with builders/contractors for Deck? I'm looking into start it asap. If would be even better if they can get all of the HOA permits and everything else for us.

Any suggestions or help will be very helpful.

Thank you

Jeff

 

It's so easy, I did mine myself!

 

I volunteer to test out it sturdiness! We just need a keg and about 30 people!

 

I want to build one with a roof. The same roof tiles as our house, and a few other things I have in mind. I'm not much of a builder, so I need a professional help.

 

I used Long Fence to build my deck, they did a great job but because they're pretty popular scheduling sometimes takes awhile.

They also had a 0% financing for 12 months or a discount for paying 100% up front in cash.

They did everything for me except fill out and send in my HOA forms, but they gave me all the paperwork to attach to my HOA forms.

You should mail in your HOA forms as soon as you get the blueprints from the builder because that will delay building the deck if your HOA is like mine and takes a month to approve shit.

 

How do I contact Long Fence?

 

http://www.long-fence.com/html/utilities/locations.htm

You can probably call their Chantilly office, 703-471-0960 and ask for them to give you an estimate.

They usually have a lot of example decks for you to look at, and I'm pretty sure they can do the work you want with a roof over top of the deck.

 

If you can find the time do it yourself. Like most home improvement projects it isn't that hard and you save a ton of money. You are obviously not mechanically inept so you should be able to handle it. At the very least you should try building the deck on your own even if you have someone else put the walls and roof on the section you want to enclose just make sure you put in a lot of support.

Here's the deck and and 16 x 16 porch I built at my last house by myself and I had never done anything like it before. The house will fall down before the deck/porch will as I over engineered it with 12 posts under the porch section alone. The only thing I had help with was putting in the main beam in the porch section since I couldn't lift that on my own but the deck boards are all 20 ft long 2x6 and even the 2x12's underneath weren't that bad on my own.



A couple from inside the porch. Apparently I should have turned on the ceiling fan light as these are a little dark.






You can see how close the neighbors are and that is one of the main reasons I've moved but I hated like hell leaving that deck and porch.

Mark

 

Very nice Mark.... If Jeff can't find a link for Long Fence then he should't try to build a deck

Seriously, I wouldn't use Long Fence... they'll rip you off for sure. You will save a ton if you do do it yourself though

 

I didn't think about that.