Poured concrete circular driveway curving around a planted island at a two story home, Atlanta, Georgia
Five towns
Decks & Fences in Walker County, GA
Five small towns in the far northwest corner. Walker is one of the longest runs we make, and we make it.
Walker County runs a 62 to 70 minute band for us, from LaFayette at 42.8 road miles to Chattanooga Valley at 58.3. This is the far northwest edge.
6,741 owner-occupied homes across five small towns
Walker is 10,955 homes over five towns, 6,741 of them owner occupied, and not one of the five is big. That's what the county is: small towns, spread out, a long way from us, and every one of them inside the area we cover.
1959 to 1984, a quarter century of housing
Rossville houses run to 1959, LaFayette to 1964, Fairview to 1970, Chattanooga Valley to 1972 and Chickamauga to 1984. Housing this old means original decks are long gone and what stands now is second or third generation, so what we do out here is replacement and the railings and stairs that go with it.
The five towns
Fairview, 1,842 owner-occupied homes and 79.7 percent ownership. LaFayette, 1,735, the closest of the five at 42.8 road miles. Chattanooga Valley, 1,149, and the steepest place in the county. Rossville, 1,038, the oldest housing anywhere in Walker. Chickamauga, 977, at 80.8 percent owner occupied and the only one of the five with named water inside its boundary. We work all five.
172 feet to 643 feet
Relief across Walker runs from 172 feet at Chickamauga up to 643 at Chattanooga Valley, with Rossville at 501. Only Dalton runs steeper. On the steep end of that a retaining wall is doing structural work, and getting water out from behind it matters more than anything visible on the face.
One named lake in five towns
Crawfish Spring Lake inside the Chickamauga boundary is the only named water in the entire county. The other four towns have none, so the case for a screened porch here rests on ridge breeze and evening use, not on standing water. Chattanooga Creek, Rock Creek, Dry Creek and West Chickamauga Creek are the lines we grade a patio or a walkway to.
Lot lines that follow old roads
Walker mixes small towns with older settlements that never had lines drawn around them, and that produces some of the least regular platting we run into. Lot shapes follow old roads and old ground, not a grid, so a fence line in Walker takes us more layout and fewer standard panels than anywhere in Cherokee.
60 to 81 percent owner occupied
Ownership across the five runs from 60.1 percent at LaFayette to 80.8 at Chickamauga, which is a high and consistent floor. That usually means steady pergola and patio cover work. Here it's tempered by distance, and we're not going to pretend the drive doesn't exist.
The drive, straight up
Walker County is the far edge. We group Walker work into runs, so a small job may have to wait for one that's already going that way. Fire pits come in with the hardscape. There's finished work on the gallery and the rest of the counties on the service areas page. Say what you need and when and we'll give you a straight answer about timing.
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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
Will you really drive to LaFayette or Rossville?
For work that justifies the run, yes. It's a far corner for us. Willingness isn't the constraint. Scheduling is.
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Other towns we cover
Walker County work
One of the longest drives we make. Call 706-879-8873 and we'll tell you straight whether the timing works.