Timber pool deck framed and boarded around an above-ground pool beside a barn, Rome, Georgia
Floyd County
Deck Builder in Rome, GA
Rome is twenty road miles up the Adairsville Highway, close enough that a morning look at a yard doesn't eat the day.
About 33 minutes from Adairsville, 20.3 road miles by Adairsville Highway and New Calhoun Highway Northeast.
The biggest market inside forty minutes
Nothing within an easy drive of the shop is bigger than Rome: 38,189 people, 16,566 homes, 7,369 of them owner occupied. The route out is Adairsville Highway onto New Calhoun Highway Northeast, 20.3 miles, and it never touches the interstate.
1974 houses, and the first deck is already gone
Half the houses in Rome were finished before 1974. A pressure treated deck framed with a house of that vintage has already been replaced once or is standing on borrowed time, and the tell is usually the post bases at grade, not anything you can see from the kitchen window. Rome is the clearest replacement market we work in, which is why the honest first question is whether you're looking at a repair or at a new deck on a new frame. If it's going back in, composite decking is worth pricing against wood on a house this age.
Fence work in a city of 16,566 homes
Fence work in Rome splits two ways, tight in-town runs and open lots out on the edges, and that split is worked through on the Rome fence page with materials on the fence company page.
Under half of Rome owns its roof
Just under half of Rome, 49.2 percent, owns the house it lives in. A shade structure gets built by whoever is staying, so here that's the settled half of the city, not all of it. It's still worth building, and worth building so it reads as permanent. See what goes into a pergola or patio cover.
Two rivers inside the city boundary
The Coosa and the Oostanaula both run inside the Rome city line, and they meet here. Moving water on that scale sets the insect pressure for every yard within reach of it, and insect pressure is the entire argument for screening a porch instead of leaving it open. No other town we work in has two rivers meeting inside it. The screened porch page works through screen, screen with a roof, and glass.
407 feet between the low ground and the ridges
Elevation across Rome runs 573 to 980 feet. Much of that is the difference between the river flats and the ridges the city is built around, which is why retaining walls here tend to be short and long instead of tall and short: you're terracing a slope that runs the width of the yard instead of holding back one steep corner.
Beech Creek, Big Dry Creek, Burwell Creek
Eight named streams cross the Rome boundary. Three of them, Beech Creek, Big Dry Creek and Burwell Creek, run through residential ground, and a yard that sits between a creek and a house has a drainage path it didn't choose. Patios, walkways and steps in Rome get laid out around that path, not against it.
Fire pits in Floyd County
Where a fire pit goes depends on your lot and the seating, and that gets settled standing in the yard. The construction sits under hardscape, and the fire pit guide covers the designs.
Rome and the rest of Floyd County
Rome is the one city we cover in Floyd County, which also takes in Lindale. The gallery shows what the finished work looks like.
Further reading
Finished in Rome
Jobs from around here
New timber stair and handrail run built against a historic brick mill building, Rome, Georgia
Timber pool deck framed and boarded around an above-ground pool beside a barn, Rome, Georgia
New timber stair and handrail run built against a historic brick mill building, Rome, Georgia
Timber pool deck framed and boarded around an above-ground pool beside a barn, Rome, Georgia
Is Rome too far for a small job?
No. It's 20.3 road miles, closer than most of the Cobb County towns we cover. Small jobs in Rome get grouped with other Floyd County work where the schedule allows.
My deck came with the house and the house is from the sixties. Is any of it worth keeping?
Sometimes the frame is, and sometimes only the footings are. What decides it is the condition where the posts meet the ground and where the ledger meets the house. Both show up clearly in the pictures you send.
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Got a Rome yard that needs work?
Twenty road miles from the shop. Call and describe what you have.