Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Polk County
Deck Builder in Cedartown, GA
Old housing, low ownership and two lakes inside the city line. Cedartown doesn't look like anywhere else we work.
About 58 minutes, 37.4 road miles by New Calhoun Highway Northeast and Cedartown Highway.
10,227 people in housing that mostly predates 1974
Four thousand homes, and fewer than half of them lived in by the people who own them. Like Rome, half of Cedartown was finished before 1974. That's old housing in a town where most people rent, and it makes for a particular kind of work.
Boards that have earned their retirement
Half the houses here were finished before 1974. Any deck that came with the house has been replaced, patched or abandoned by now, and the ones still standing are usually held up by framing that was never designed for the way it has been loaded since. The starting question is whether there's anything worth keeping, which is what deck repair and replacement is for, and the railing and stair is nearly always the part that fails a safety look first.
4,050 homes on older lots
Cedartown's 4,050 homes sit on older ground with irregular lot shapes, not modern subdivision grid, and what that does to a fence line is the subject of the Cedartown fence page, with materials on the fence company page.
43.3 percent owner occupied
Fewer than half of occupied Cedartown homes are owner occupied. That makes it a thin pergola and patio cover market. Where the work does happen it's in the settled streets, and it tends to be a cover over an existing slab, not a new structure on new ground.
Vance Lake and Springdale Lake
Two named lakes sit inside the Cedartown boundary. Both are still water, which is the kind that drives insect pressure hardest, so a screened porch here's doing real work instead of adding a feature. On an older house the porch structure often already exists and only needs screening properly, which is the cheapest of the three routes on that page.
197 feet across the boundary
Cedartown runs 766 to 963 feet, 197 feet of change, which is gentle ground. Flat and old is a patio and deck-replacement profile, not a wall profile, and most Cedartown lots don't need a retaining wall at all. Where one does go in it is usually low and decorative.
Cedar Creek and Lake Creek
Only two named streams cross the boundary. On flat ground with few defined channels, water leaves slowly, and a hard surface put down without a deliberate fall will hold it. Getting the slope right is most of the job on a Cedartown patio or walkway.
Fire pits in Polk County
It's a site decision, made standing in the yard with the seating worked out first. The build sits with hardscape and the layouts are in the fire pit guide.
Cedartown, Rockmart and Aragon
Cedartown is our only town in Polk County, and the county page also covers Rockmart and Aragon. Earlier jobs of ours are on the gallery.
Further reading
Our work
Jobs from around northwest Georgia
Wide entry steps and landing in fresh timber, with cable railing, meeting the flagstone path at a cabin door, Blue Ridge, Georgia
New timber railing installed along a long stained deck overlooking open water, Cartersville, Georgia
Evening view of the extended deck above the new covered space, Cumming, Georgia
New elevated deck with railings and a long stair run to grade, Dacula, Georgia
Is Cedartown too far west to be worth calling about?
No. We already have work in the Polk County area and the drive is 37.4 road miles, comparable to the Cherokee County markets.
The porch is there but it was never screened. Can that be done?
Usually yes, and it's the least expensive of the enclosure options because the structure and the roof already exist.
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Other towns we cover
Cedartown job to look at?
Thirty-seven road miles west. Call and describe what you have.