Deck Builder in Adairsville, GA

Working in the town we live in

Adairsville is small: just under 5,000 people, about 1,665 homes, and in 1,020 of them the owner is the one living there. Word of mouth still decides who gets called here, and we live inside it. Send the details and a couple of photos and we'll tell you what it needs.

Adairsville decks and the 2001 problem

The typical Adairsville house was finished in 2001. A deck framed at the same time is now at the age where the connection points loosen well before the decking itself looks bad, so what fails first is a ledger, a stair stringer or a rail post, not the surface you can see. That makes Adairsville a repair-and-rebuild market, not a demolition one. Read what a new deck build involves, or what deck repair and replacement covers when the frame is still worth keeping.

Fencing on a small-town lot

Streets here are short and so are the front yards, which is why Adairsville runs more walk gates than drive gates, and the detail on that is on the Adairsville fence page instead of here, with materials covered by the fence company page.

Cedar posts in a town that stays put

Seven homes in ten here are owner occupied. Nobody puts a cedar post in the ground for the benefit of the next tenant. A pergola or a solid patio cover is bought by somebody who plans to still be sitting under it a long way from now, and Adairsville has more of those households per hundred than almost anywhere we work.

Screened porches without a lake to blame

There's no named lake or river inside the Adairsville boundary. The reason to screen a porch here is the ordinary one: summer evenings in north Bartow are the part of the year you actually want the room for, and screen is what makes them usable. See how the three levels of enclosure compare on the screened porch page.

410 feet of rise inside the city limits

Adairsville runs from 671 feet to 1,081 feet. Four hundred and ten feet of change in a town this size means a good share of back yards sit on a grade steep enough that the usable flat area has to be built, not found. That's what a retaining wall is for, and on a lot like that the wall usually comes before the patio, not after it.

Where the water goes: Gunn Creek and Oothkalooga Creek

Two named streams run through town, Gunn Creek and Oothkalooga Creek. Both of them tell you which way the ground drains, and a patio is a shed surface before it is anything else. Getting the fall right on a patio, walkway or set of steps is what keeps water moving past the house instead of standing against the slab.

Where a fire pit ends up

Siting is a conversation about your lot, prevailing wind and how far the seating sits from the house, and it happens on site. The build itself sits with patios and hardscape, and there are twenty layouts worth arguing about in the fire pit guide.

The rest of Bartow County

Adairsville sits in Bartow County, alongside Cartersville and Euharlee. Finished work from all of it is on the gallery.

Further reading

• pergola shapes and how to pick one
• how block, timber and boulder walls differ