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Working range, CAD. Not a quote.
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Size

Width16 ft
Depth12 ft

Height

Door pan2 ft off the ground
Deck below it6 in below the door pan

Material

Railing

Steps and ramp the deck is the top landing

Shape

Extras

Hot tub

Canopy

Gas barbecue

Lighting and comfort

Roof, walls and floor

What it is

Floor

Advanced

This job one deck, or several pieces

Every assumption behind the numbers

What is in the number

We come out, measure, and turn the drawing into a real quote.

The parts most deck companies do not mention

These decide whether you still like the deck in year eight.

Water management under the deck

A trough under the joists catches the rain that falls between the boards and sends it to one downspout. The ground underneath stays dry instead of washing out round the posts.

A slatted canopy

Shade that moves with the sun and lets the heat out, for people who want light, not a roof. A solid roof turns a deck into a room, which is a different permit.

A ramp that hugs the deck

A level platform flush with the deck, a lane tight against the fascia, and a landing at each corner. It keeps a long ramp out of the middle of the yard.

Bi-level, where the tier is the landing

The upper ramp runs along the front of the upper deck and lands on the lower tier, and the tier has its own ramp down to the ground.

A hot tub set into the deck

Sunk so the rim is at seat height, on its own pad under the deck, with a hatch to reach the pump. It needs a 240 volt circuit, and a gas line if it is gas heated: licensed trades, and usually a permit.

How high is the deck, really

Deck below the door

What the number is, and what it is not

What it is

  • Square foot rates for the structure in the material you chose, plus a line for every part you added.
  • A range of plus or minus twelve per cent around that, because two identical decks on two different lots are not the same job.
  • Every line visible, and every line removable, so you can see what any single decision is costing you.
  • A count of the quantities that fall straight out of the geometry, with the waste factor you chose.

What it is not

  • It is not a quote, and it never claims to be one. We accept no responsibility for any of these numbers.
  • It knows nothing about your ground: rock, slope, a buried line, a soft spot where the posts go.
  • It knows nothing about your house: the siding, the sheathing behind it, or what the ledger will actually bolt to.
  • It is not a materials list. It counts what the drawing gives it and stops there, and the takeoff panel says so in plain words.