Here is a perfect example of why not to hire unlicensed contractors and why to become licensed if you are a contractor. This deck was only a couple months old when we were hired to “fix” it. The customer had hired a friend of a friend to build her a Trex deck. She told him she wanted it low to the ground and gave him the dimensions of the size and shape of the deck. He came and installed the deck while she was at work and boy was she surprised when she got home. It looked and felt like a stage, it was hovering there attached to the siding of her house without any flashing. When she complained that he hadn’t built a ground level deck like she had asked, he said that decks had to be attached to the house, they couldn’t be free standing. What a joke! He hadn’t even properly attached it to the house anyway. So we were hired to disassemble the entire deck, add a beam under the side by the house, and lower it as low as possible to the ground. You can see the white caulking we used to fill the bolt holes in the siding where the deck had been attached. Needless to say, she was much happier with the new deck and the unlicensed guy never got paid.
New deck repair
