Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Cobb County
Deck Builder in Kennesaw, GA
Kennesaw is a late-nineties city with a high ownership rate, which is the combination that produces the most outdoor work per hundred homes.
About 46 minutes, 35.3 road miles by I-75 and Old 41 Highway.
34,605 people, and most of the houses are owned
Kennesaw is 14,380 homes with 8,753 of them owner occupied, and most of it was built in the late nineties. Owners who stay in a house of that age are the ones who end up rebuilding a deck, not selling around it.
1998, the year the framing starts to talk
Kennesaw houses went up in the nineties, 1998 in the middle of them, which puts the typical original deck at the age where movement starts showing up as noise: a stair that flexes, a rail that gives when you lean on it, a board that cups after a wet spring. None of that is collapse and all of it is the frame telling you something. Deck repair is usually cheaper than people expect at this stage, and a proper clean and seal is what stops the next stage arriving early.
Fence work across 14,380 homes
Almost all of Kennesaw is platted subdivision ground, and what that does to run lengths, corner counts and gate placement is covered on the Kennesaw fence page, with materials on the fence company page.
Nearly two thirds owner occupied
Kennesaw is 64.6 percent owner occupied. That's the market where a pergola or a solid patio cover makes the most sense as an investment, not a splurge, because the person paying for it is the person who will be using it in ten summers.
No lake, and the case for screen anyway
There's no named lake, pond or river inside the city. The case for a screened porch in Kennesaw rests on what screen does for an evening in a wooded subdivision.
264 feet across the boundary
Kennesaw runs from 896 to 1,160 feet. That 264 feet is enough to produce plenty of yards with a usable half and a wasted half, which is the ordinary case for a retaining wall: hold the grade at the break, and the wasted half becomes lawn, patio or a place to put the shed.
Chalker Bridge Creek, John Henry Creek, Noonday Creek
Six named streams cross the city, three of them running through residential ground. Every one is a collection point, and the yards that feed them are the ones where a new hard surface changes something. Setting out a patio, walkway or set of steps starts with which way the ground already falls.
Fire pits, sited on the lot
Siting happens on the lot, once the seating is drawn. Construction sits with hardscape and the options are in the fire pit guide.
Kennesaw's corner of Cobb
Kennesaw sits inside Cobb County with five other cities we cover. There's more 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
My deck feels bouncy but nothing is broken. Is that urgent?
It's not an emergency and it's not nothing. Bounce usually means a joist span or a beam connection that was marginal to start with. It's worth looking at before the next thing loosens.
Do you cover Kennesaw for fence work as well as decks?
Yes. Fencing is the larger half of what we do. The Kennesaw fence page goes into what the lot pattern here means for run length and gates.
Nearby
Other towns we cover
Planning something in Kennesaw?
Thirty-five road miles down the interstate. Call and describe the yard.