Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Cherokee County
Deck Builder in Canton, GA
Canton is where new houses sit on hard ground, and the ground decides most of what can be built on it.
Roughly 48 minutes, 35.3 road miles by I-75 and Knox Bridge Highway.
35,741 people on Cherokee County's steepest ground
The houses in Canton are much like the ones in the other Cherokee towns we cover. The ground under them isn't. There are 13,255 homes here, 6,896 of them owner occupied.
New houses, and decks that were never finished
Half of Canton was built after 2005. On housing that young the deck problem is almost never rot. It's that the original was sized to a plan, sited to a plan, and left there, so what people want is more of it, lower to the ground, or connected to something. That's a new build conversation more often than a repair one, and it's worth comparing surfaces before committing.
What a Canton fence line runs into
Canton is platted subdivision in places and hillside lots in others, and how a fence line behaves across 13,255 homes of that mix is worked through on the Canton fence page with material choices on the fence company page.
55.6 percent owner occupied
Canton sits at 55.6 percent, noticeably below its two Cherokee neighbors. In a market where more of the housing turns over, a patio cover earns its keep by being visibly built instead of bolted on: real posts, real beams, a structure that reads as part of the house to whoever looks at it next.
Hickory Log Creek Reservoir
One named body of water sits inside the Canton boundary and it's a reservoir, which is the worst case for still-water insect pressure. Anywhere with a sight line to it, screening a porch is the difference between a room you use after dark and one you don't. The three levels of enclosure are compared on the screened porch page.
396 feet of climb across the town
Canton runs 860 to 1,256 feet, 396 feet of change, the most of the Cherokee towns we cover. Yards here routinely arrive with a third of their area at an angle nothing can be put on. A retaining wall is how that third gets converted into something usable, and on this much grade the drainage behind the wall matters more than the face of it.
Blankets Creek, Canton Creek, Downing Creek
Seven named streams cross the boundary. On steep ground they run fast and they run in defined channels, which is useful: it means the water has somewhere to go, provided the hard surfaces above it are set to send it there. Patios, walkways and steps on a Canton slope are grade transitions first.
Fire pits on sloped ground
On a sloped Canton lot the real constraint is finding level ground for the seating, and that's decided on site. The build is hardscape, and the fire pit guide covers the shapes.
Canton in Cherokee County
Canton sits in Cherokee County with Woodstock, Holly Springs and Ball Ground. Completed builds are on the gallery.
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Can a deck and a retaining wall be built at the same time?
Yes, and on steep Canton lots that's often the cheaper order of operations, because the wall decides where the deck posts can land.
My yard is too steep to use. What's the first step?
Measuring the fall across the width of it. That number decides whether you're looking at one wall, two terraces, or a deck that reaches out over the slope instead.
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Canton lot fighting you?
Steep ground is most of what this county is. Call and describe what you're working with.