by Chris Marquand | Nov 11, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks
This customer’s original deck was poorly designed and failing. It was built with no pressure treated wood, it had 2.5″ of concrete poured in a pan as its surface, and it was cracking and sinking. We demolished the original and built this new deck in its...
by Chris Marquand | Sep 30, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks
This home is a rental and this summer the tenant accidentally caught the deck on fire. Only about 25% of the deck was damaged but the home owner decided to replace the whole thing. We replaced it with the same style of deck that existed before. The only thing we...
by Chris Marquand | Sep 24, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks, Railings
This deck originally had 2×4 decking that was nailed down. It was creaky and aging so the customer wanted to replace the decking. We went with 2×6 cedar decking which we screwed down for a more solid surface and a more solid appearance. We also made repairs...
by Chris Marquand | Aug 19, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks
This customer had an old cedar deck that had holes in the decking because of rot. They were lucky however that the framing was pressure treated because we were able to reuse it. So we removed the old decking and replaced it with new cedar decking. In order to save...
by Chris Marquand | Aug 4, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks
This homeowner had replaced the parts of his deck that rotted bit by bit over the years. It was a two story deck and he never wanted to shell out the money necessary to replace the whole thing at once. So as a result all the easily accessible parts had been replaced...
by Chris Marquand | Jul 28, 2010 | Cedar and pressure treated decks
Here is a newer Northeast Portland house that originally had an aggregate back patio. The customer didn’t like the original basic patio so we built a nice cedar one over the top and extended the size of it. We went with a six foot wide section of steps, cedar...
