Deck Builder in Woodstock, GA

A city built mostly this century

Woodstock is young. Half of it went up after 2005, and that changes what the work is. Thirty-seven thousand people live here, and about nine in every fifteen homes are owned instead of rented.

2005 houses, and the builder deck reaching year twenty

On housing this new the typical Woodstock deck is the one the builder put on, and builder decks are sized to satisfy a plan, not to hold a table and eight chairs. At twenty years old they're not failing, they're just too small and too plain, and the frame underneath is often perfectly good. That makes this an extension and resurface market, not a teardown one. Start with what a deck build involves, then look at railings, stairs and the space under the deck, which is where a builder deck usually gives up first.

Fence lines in 15,371 subdivision homes

With 15,371 homes laid out mostly as subdivision grid, Woodstock fence runs are short and gate counts are predictable, and the detail on that lives on the Woodstock fence page with the materials on the fence company page.

64 percent owner occupied and staying put

Two thirds of occupied Woodstock homes are owner occupied. Combine that with housing that's still relatively new and you get the strongest possible case for a permanent shade structure: people who own, who aren't moving, and whose back yards were handed over as grass and a slab. A pergola or patio cover is the single most common way that gets fixed.

The Little River runs through it

The Little River is the one named water inside the Woodstock boundary. Moving water carries less insect pressure than a still pond does, so the porch argument here is more about sun and rain than about mosquitoes: a roof that lets you sit outside during an August afternoon storm. That's the middle of the three enclosure levels on the screened porch page.

231 feet, and the gentle end of Cherokee

Woodstock runs 839 to 1,070 feet, 231 feet of change and the least of the Cherokee towns we cover. Gentle ground means a lot of Woodstock retaining wall work is one or two courses squaring up a soft slope so a patio or a play area has somewhere flat to go instead of anything structural.

Little River, Noonday Creek, Posey Branch

Six named streams cross the boundary, and Noonday Creek and Posey Branch are the two that thread through neighborhoods instead of around them. On a newer lot the grading was done for the house, not for what you're adding, so a patio or a walkway has to be set out to work with a slope somebody else chose.

Fire pits in Cherokee County

Where a fire pit belongs is a decision made outdoors, with the yard in front of you. The build sits under hardscape, and the designs are in the fire pit guide.

Woodstock's Cherokee County neighbors

Three Cherokee County cities are on the schedule and Woodstock is one of them. Everything finished is on the gallery.

Further reading

• deck design ideas worth stealing
• how to choose a pergola that works