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Wood Decks.Wood decks, stairs and railings, with the ledger flashed and fastened properly.
OnCall builds wood decks including stairs and railings. What decides how a deck ages is the framing, the fasteners, the flashing at the ledger and the drainage underneath.
The ledger is the thing
The connection where a deck meets the house is the most common serious failure on residential decks nationally. It is invisible the moment the boards go down, and it is entirely a question of how carefully it was flashed and fastened on the day.
Footings below the frost line
In central Indiana that is not optional, and it is one of the things a cheap quote quietly leaves out. Ask anybody bidding your deck how deep the footings go.
Fasteners, drainage and the boards themselves
Fastener choice is not a detail. The wrong fastener in treated lumber corrodes, stains the boards around it and loosens, and it does all of that from inside the joint where nobody can see it happening.
Board spacing and the slope of the framing decide where water goes. A deck that holds water at the ledger or between tight boards is a deck that rots from the parts you cannot inspect.
How wood decks gets quoted
Wood Decks is measured on site. Grade, access, existing conditions and the things behind the walls all change the number, and none of them are visible in a photograph. OnCall walks the space, works through the design decisions with you, takes the dimensions and sends a detailed written bid rather than a range.
You review the quote with us: the scope, materials, pricing, options and anything that may be different from another bid, so you know exactly what you are comparing. A signature and a deposit put the work on the calendar. If something is found once a wall or the ground is open, it is priced and agreed before it is built rather than appearing at the end.
Where OnCall does this work
Wood Decks is available throughout Greater Indianapolis: Fishers and Geist, Noblesville, the Morse Reservoir area and Cicero, Westfield, Carmel, Zionsville, McCordsville, Brownsburg, Greenwood and Indianapolis itself. If you are nearby but don't see your community, send us your zip code and we will confirm.
Frequently asked questions.
Composite or wood?
OnCall builds wood decks. Composite is a conversation worth having at the walkthrough so you get a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
When can it be stained?
After it has weathered. See deck staining.
Need wood decks?
Photos and a short description are usually enough to get a real number back.
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