Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Cherokee County
Deck Builder in Holly Springs, GA
Almost nothing in Holly Springs is old enough to need replacing yet, and that changes what the work actually is.
About 53 minutes, 37 road miles by I-75 and Knox Bridge Highway.
Houses too new to have failed yet
7,312 homes, 5,237 of them owner occupied, and half of them built in 2009 or later. Nothing else we cover is that young. It means the argument that holds almost everywhere else, that the deck is old and the frame is going, is simply not true in Holly Springs, and pretending otherwise would be selling something nobody needs.
2009 houses, and the first deck instead of the third
On houses this new, most Holly Springs decks are original and structurally fine. What people want isn't a replacement, it's the thing the builder didn't include: a bigger platform, a second level, a stair that goes somewhere sensible, or a deck where there's currently a back door and a drop. That's a new build conversation, and it's the right moment to decide between composite and wood because nothing has to be matched to an existing surface.
7,312 homes on newer platted ground
Nearly all of the 7,312 homes here sit in subdivisions built to one plan, so run lengths and gate counts barely change from street to street. That pattern is worked through on the Holly Springs fence page, with materials on the fence company page.
75.1 percent owner occupied
Three quarters of occupied homes here are owner occupied, second only to Powder Springs. Young houses plus settled owners is the combination that produces the most pergola and patio cover work, because the people involved are finishing a yard they intend to keep, not patching one they inherited.
Wooded lots, and designing the porch with the deck
There's no named lake, pond or river inside the Holly Springs line. The case for a screened porch here's about wooded lots and evening use, and on a new house it's often cheaper to design the porch and the deck together than to add one to the other later.
293 feet across the boundary
Holly Springs runs 873 to 1,166 feet, 293 feet of change, more than Woodstock and less than Canton. New subdivisions on this kind of ground get cut and filled during construction, so what's left is often a steep back third that never got finished. That's textbook retaining wall territory and the most common first project on a yard like this.
Avery Creek, Badger Creek, Blankets Creek
Four named streams cross the boundary. On recently graded ground the drainage was engineered for the street and the house, not for anything you add behind it, so a new patio, walkway or set of steps has to work inside a scheme somebody else designed. That's easier when the yard is still bare.
Fire pits on a new lot
On a bare new yard the fire pit is often the anchor everything else gets arranged around, which is an argument for deciding it early. The build is hardscape and the designs are in the fire pit guide.
The other two Cherokee County towns
Holly Springs, Woodstock and Canton are the three Cherokee County towns we build in. Other work of ours is 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
The house is fifteen years old. Is it too early to think about the deck?
No, but it's probably too early to replace it. On housing this new the useful work is usually adding to what's there, not tearing it out.
Deck first or patio first on a bare yard?
Whichever one the back door opens onto. After that it depends on how much fall there's between the house and the back of the lot.
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Other towns we cover
First project on a Holly Springs yard?
Most of these yards are still bare. Call and say what you want out there first.