Large low deck stripped to the frame and re-boarded with new railings, Chatsworth, Georgia
Murray County
Deck Builder in Chatsworth, GA
Fifty minutes northeast of us, and the last twelve miles of it are the slow ones. We build decks, fences, walls and porches in Chatsworth.
About 50 minutes and 40.7 road miles. Twenty-two of them are I-75 and the town sits 12.4 miles east of the exit, so the second half of a Chatsworth run takes as long as the first.
4,893 people, 1,817 homes, and a fifty minute run
4,893 people live in Chatsworth across 1,817 homes. It's a small town and we work it like one, which mostly means we turn up on the day we said we would and finish before we start something else. To skip the reading, send us pictures and dimensions.
The part that outlives the boards
Half the houses in Chatsworth were finished by 1995, and at that age the surface and the frame run on different clocks. Boards take every summer of sun and every wet winter face up. The joists beneath them sit shaded, and stay square long after the walking surface has gone soft. So the first thing we do is lift a board and look under it. That's where deck repair and replacement begins, and railings and stairs ride on the same frame the boards did.
1,817 homes, and a fence line cut to your own lot
Chatsworth is small, 1,817 homes altogether, and that's the size where a fence line follows the shape of your own lot instead of matching whatever the block already has. We would rather set the line to the yard you actually use than run it square because square is quicker to build. Materials, and what each one wants from you in year five, are on the fence company page.
65.8 percent own, so nobody has to ask
Two thirds of occupied Chatsworth homes are owner occupied, 1,120 of them. At that ratio the shade conversation skips a step a renting market never gets past: there's nobody to ask whether posts can go in the ground. What's left is post spacing and how much of the yard the structure takes, and both of those we work out with you on site. A patio cover or pergola is where they land.
The porch case that has nothing to do with a view
Screen doesn't need water or a hillside to justify itself. What fills an open porch after dark is the light you switched on, and a room you can leave lit at nine at night is a room you actually use in July instead of walking past. That's the argument we start from, and the screened porch page carries it through to what each level of enclosure costs you in breeze.
129 feet of change across an entire town
Chatsworth runs from 692 feet to 821 feet. A spread of 129 feet across a whole town line is very little, and it shows up as ground you can walk end to end without noticing the fall. Most of these lots will never need wall work and we're not going to invent a reason for them to have it. Where we do build a retaining wall on ground this level, it holds an edge, a raised bed or a parking pad, not a hill.
Holly Creek, Mill Creek, and the ground in between
Holly Creek and Mill Creek are the two named channels inside the Chatsworth line. Away from those two the water has no cut to follow, so on level ground it crosses yards as a sheet. A hard surface set in the way of a sheet either carries it or stops it, and which one happens is decided when we lay out a patio or a run of steps, not afterward when somebody is standing in it.
Sizing a fire pit before you build one
The ring isn't what people get wrong. The distance is. A pit sized for the picture in your head usually turns out to be a pit nobody can sit around, because the seating circle has to stand off the heat by a good margin and that margin eats yard faster than the pit does.
We would rather draw the chairs first and let the pit come out of that. Building one is hardscape, and the fire pit guide works through the shapes.
Booking a Chatsworth job
Chatsworth is a scheduled trip for us, not a same-week one, and we say so up front because a promise we can't keep is worse than a date two weeks out. Once it's on the calendar our crew arrives with what the job needs, because twelve miles off the interstate is a long way to go back for a box of hangers. Chatsworth is the county seat of Murray County, and it's the town we cover on that side of the mountain. What our finished decks, fences and porches look like is on the gallery.
Further reading
Finished in Chatsworth
Jobs from around here
Large low deck stripped to the frame and re-boarded with new railings, Chatsworth, Georgia
Large low deck stripped to the frame and re-boarded with new railings, Chatsworth, Georgia
Large low deck stripped to the frame and re-boarded with new railings, Chatsworth, Georgia
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Do you actually come out to Chatsworth?
Yes. It's 40.7 road miles and about fifty minutes, and we work it on a booked date, which is the only honest way to run a trip that length.
The boards are gone but the frame looks fine. Can it be reused?
Often. What settles it's what the joists have been doing under the boards, and a few pictures of the underside will show us most of it before we ever drive up.
Is Chatsworth too far east to be worth a call?
No. Only about half the run is interstate and the rest isn't, so what the distance really costs is flexibility, not willingness. Give us notice and the drive is our problem, not yours.
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Other towns we cover
Work to do on a Chatsworth yard?
Fifty minutes each way means we give you a date and hold it instead of fitting you in around the corner. Call 706-879-8873 and tell us what's out there.