Deck Builder in Dalton, GA

The steepest city we work in

From one side of the Dalton city line to the other the ground climbs 741 feet, more than in any town we build in and by a wide margin, and on a Dalton lot that's what decides most of what gets built. Inside that line are 34,538 people and 13,440 homes, 6,493 of them owner occupied.

1982 houses on hard ground

Dalton houses are 1982 down the middle, older than any Cherokee town we cover and most of the Cobb ones. A deck of that age on a steep lot is carrying loads the flat-lot version never sees, because the posts are longer, the lateral bracing matters more and the ground around the footings moves. Which is why the first thing worth looking at is the frame, not the surface. That's what deck repair and replacement starts from, and railings and stairs take the most abuse on a deck that stands this far off the ground.

Fencing across 13,440 Dalton homes

Running a fence across ground that falls this fast is a different job from running one across a flat subdivision lot, and that's what the Dalton fence page is about, with materials on the fence company page.

52.4 percent owner occupied

Just over half of occupied Dalton homes are owner occupied. That puts it in the lower third of our markets for ownership, so the pergola and patio cover market here is smaller in proportion than in Kennesaw or Powder Springs. It's not absent. It's concentrated in the settled neighborhoods, and it tends to be attached, not freestanding.

No lake here, so the case is height

Dalton has no named lake, pond or river inside the city line. So the honest case for a screened porch here is elevation, not insects: a screened room on a Dalton hillside gets a view and a breeze that an open deck at the same height gets in exchange for wind and bugs.

687 feet to 1,428 feet

741 feet of relief is nearly double Cartersville and more than three times Acworth. Yards routinely arrive with a slope that has already started moving, and on that ground a retaining wall isn't landscaping. It's the thing that decides whether the rest of the yard exists. Drainage behind the wall does most of the structural work and it's the part that gets skipped.

The Conasauga River, Drowning Bear Creek, Farrar Branch

Eleven named streams cross the Dalton boundary. On steep ground that's a lot of defined channels moving a lot of water quickly, and every hard surface added above one of them raises the volume. Patios, walkways and steps here are laid out to hand that water off deliberately.

Fire pits in Whitfield County

On a Dalton slope the constraint is finding level ground for the seating, and that's a site call. Construction sits under hardscape work, and the shapes are laid out in the fire pit guide.

One thing to check before you call anybody

There's more than one Ramirez in this trade in Whitfield County. This is Ramirez Services Unlimited LLC, based in Adairsville, and the number is 706-879-8873. We work in English and Spanish, and what we have built is on the gallery. Dalton is the Whitfield County town we build a page for, and the county page covers the rest, and north of it neither Walker County nor Catoosa County has a market large enough for a page, so the eight towns in them are named on those two county pages.

Further reading

• wall materials for the steepest ground
• what to do with a sloped back yard