Decks & Fences in Cobb County, GA

70,294 owner-occupied homes across nine towns

Cobb on its own holds 131,032 homes and 70,294 owner-occupied households. It's also one of the furthest counties we cover, which is the trade we make every time a Cobb job goes on the schedule.

1971 to 2000, and three different deck problems

Cobb housing runs 1971 at Fair Oaks to 2000 at Acworth, a 29 year spread that produces genuinely different work at each end. The oldest end needs rebuilding from the frame. The middle needs repair before something gives. The newest end mostly needs a bigger deck than the builder supplied. Treating those as one job is how a quote goes wrong, so we look at each end on its own terms.

The nine Cobb towns we cover

Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Acworth, Mableton and Powder Springs are the six we're in most. We work three more besides: Vinings at 2,609 owner-occupied homes built around 1996, Austell at 1,959 around 1993, and Fair Oaks at 1,117 around 1971, the oldest housing anywhere in the county.

121 feet to 315 feet

Relief across Cobb runs from 121 feet at Fair Oaks to 315 at Mableton, and Powder Springs at 122 is nearly as flat as Fair Oaks. That means the retaining walls we build in this county are concentrated on the river side, not spread across it. In the flat west of the county a wall is usually a seat wall or a raised bed, not a structure.

The Chattahoochee, two lakes at Acworth, and a lot of small still water

Cobb carries a lot of named water: the Chattahoochee inside both Mableton and Smyrna, Allatoona Lake and Lake Acworth inside Acworth, Reeves and Haygood inside Marietta, Cooper Lake, Summerlin Lake and Perkerson Lake at Austell. Kennesaw, Powder Springs and Fair Oaks carry none. That split is the single best predictor of where a screened porch pays for itself, and Noonday, Noses, Nickajack and Olley Creek set the drainage our patios and walkways answer to.

Six Cobb towns, no two laid out alike

Cobb is a varied county: big cities, a mid-sized town at Austell, and older communities at Vinings and Fair Oaks. Places like those tend to be laid out less regularly than a modern subdivision, which changes run length and corner count on a fence job more than the material choice does. Six towns, six fence pages: Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Acworth, Mableton and Powder Springs.

From 36.9 percent to 82.4 percent owner occupied

Fair Oaks sits at 36.9 percent owner occupied and Powder Springs at 82.4, a gap of 45 points inside one county line. Pergolas and patio covers follow ownership almost exactly, which is why we put up far more of them at the western end of the county than at the southern end.

Planning a Cobb job

Fire pits go in with the hardscape. Finished jobs are on the gallery and the rest of the footprint on our service areas page. The way to begin is to start with a message.

Further reading

• the material decisions, all of them
• pavers against poured concrete