Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Cobb County
Deck Builder in Powder Springs, GA
Eight homes in ten here belong to the people living in them, and the ground is close to flat. Both of those shape the work.
Roughly 61 minutes, 43.8 road miles by I-75 and Mars Hill Road.
A settled market
18,009 people, 6,965 homes and 5,351 of them owner occupied. At 82.4 percent, that's a big share of owners.
1996, and decks at the thirty year mark
Powder Springs is mostly nineties housing, 1996 being the middle of it. A deck framed with a house of that age is near thirty and has usually had at least one round of board replacement without the frame being touched. On flat ground the failure is slower and less dramatic than on a slope, which is exactly why it gets left. Deck repair and replacement covers what's worth saving, and railings and stairs is where the age turns into a safety question.
6,965 homes and long, uninterrupted fence lines
The lots under those 6,965 homes are wide and level, and that's the pattern that produces long straight fence runs and drive gates instead of short walk gates. The Powder Springs fence page works that through, with materials on the fence company page.
82.4 percent owner occupied
Four homes in five are owned by the people in them, which is the profile of a town where improvements are made for the person making them, not for a future buyer, and it makes Powder Springs one of the strongest pergola markets we have. A pergola or a solid patio cover is the purchase that profile produces more than any other, and on flat ground it can go freestanding in the middle of the yard with no tie to the house.
No named water, and a flat lot instead
Powder Springs has no named lake, pond or river inside the city line. The honest case for a screened porch here's the flat lot: with no slope to catch a breeze, a screened room with a fan does the work that elevation does in Dalton.
122 feet of relief across the town
From 894 to 1,016 feet is 122 feet of change across the entire boundary, less than a sixth of Dalton. Powder Springs is a weak retaining wall market. Where a wall does get built here it's nearly always a low seat wall or a raised bed, which is a hardscape job, not a structural one.
Noses Creek, Powder Springs Creek, Wild Horse Creek
Three named streams cross the boundary, which is few, and on ground this flat that matters more than it sounds. Flat land doesn't shed water on its own. A patio laid dead level here will hold a puddle for two days, so the fall has to be built into it deliberately.
Fire pits on a flat lot
Flat ground gives you more choice here than in most towns, which makes the seating plan the deciding factor. The build is hardscape, and the fire pit guide has the options.
Where Powder Springs fits in Cobb County
Powder Springs sits in Cobb County with Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Acworth and Mableton, all of which we build in. Finished work lives on the gallery.
Further reading
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Jobs from around northwest Georgia
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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
Freestanding pergola or attached to the house?
On a flat lot like most of Powder Springs, freestanding gives you the choice of where the shade lands. Attached is cheaper to build and keeps the roof line simple. It comes down to where you actually sit.
Water sits on my patio after rain. Can that be fixed without tearing it out?
Sometimes, depending on how it was laid and how much fall there's to work with. It's worth looking at before assuming a rebuild.
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Powder Springs back yard to finish?
Flat ground and settled owners. Call and say what you want the yard to do.