Anyone have a deck built?

A&Jmom

This is on our long goal of things to do to the house. (first we need to put more money in energy efficiency stuff). But, we want to take an existing window in the back of the house make it a door and put a deck outside of it.  Just curious of what kind of price range the deck would run.  Nothing fancy, just a simple deck about 20 x 10.  

Anyone paid to have a deck put in before, what kind of price range am I looking at?  Materials and labor, this would not be something we would DIY.

amyliisa

Sorry, I can't begin to guess how much it would cost to build your deck, but I will share this: last year our neighbors hired a company called M r. H a n d y m a n to do some work for them. They had a balcony partially over their deck (which is roughly the size you described), and they had the company take out the sliding glass door to their balcony and fill it in to make it a solid wall. Then they extended the balcony over the whole deck, to make it just a covered deck, and then they had them cut and install a large window on another wall of that room, so they still have plenty of light in that room in lieu of the sliding glass door they removed. I don't know what It cost them, other than they felt it was very reasonable (they are a retired couple on a fixed income), and were very pleased with the work. Around that time, dh had those workers come over to give us a bid to replace the boards on the surface of our deck. We have a large, bi-level deck with several weird angles and a huge hole in it for our on-ground swimming pool. Thier bid was (what dh and and I thought was) an outrageous $4600+. Mind you, this is just to replace the boards, not build a whole new deck. Anyway, we didn't hire them, and dh and his brother ended up doing the work for less than $2k, although it was probably close to 100 hours of labor (spread out over a couple weekends), which sucked. Once dh and BIL started working, they found that they had to a lot more work than expected on the support joists of the deck. But he's glad he did it himself and saved so much $, and he's still thoroughly proud of himself for doing it. Sorry for the novel!

Kim777

Monte is good friends with a guy who does tons of decks all over Austin. If no one else has an answer and you have a rough idea of the size you are thinking about I could probably get a general idea for you.

ali-1411

DH and his friend built our deck in a weekend.  We spent $1200 at Home Depot on all the materials and we had to pay our friend labor costs in beer and brisket

Our deck is 15x15.

agran

we spent 1700 for 12x15 with two stairs (5 steps each) down to the yard.  Contractor also had to demolish a tiny little patio landing and stairs that was concrete.  Used Al's Custom Decks-- very happy with him. 

BLONDIE6FT

i can't give you any price ideas, but dh works for a company that builds decks. my 4 friends that his company built decks for are really happy! they also get great reviews on angies list.

https://www.austindeck.com/

if only i could get him to build us a deck, lol!!

A&Jmom

Kim777:

Monte is good friends with a guy who does tons of decks all over Austin. If no one else has an answer and you have a rough idea of the size you are thinking about I could probably get a general idea for you.

That would be great!  The main part would be about 20x10 and then we would need a little smaller section that came off the door and around the corner to the bigger part.  (that part would be about 3x 3 maybe.  Does Monte still do home reno work.  Does he install doors.  The window we would replace is really long and practically to the floor so I think the existing  opening could be used.

 

Thanks for the rough estimates ladies, very helpful.  I was thinking ~$2000-$3000 for the deck would probably be what we were looking at, but was not sure. 

jennynorene

Bookmarking. We need a new deck too :-)

Kim777

A&Jmom:

Kim777:

Monte is good friends with a guy who does tons of decks all over Austin. If no one else has an answer and you have a rough idea of the size you are thinking about I could probably get a general idea for you.

That would be great!  The main part would be about 20x10 and then we would need a little smaller section that came off the door and around the corner to the bigger part.  (that part would be about 3x 3 maybe.  Does Monte still do home reno work.  Does he install doors.  The window we would replace is really long and practically to the floor so I think the existing  opening could be used.

 

Thanks for the rough estimates ladies, very helpful.  I was thinking ~$2000-$3000 for the deck would probably be what we were looking at, but was not sure. 

I'll have him see if he can get a rough idea from Steve. Definitely yes on the door also.

eta: I just noticed you put the size in the original post. I'm so focused on the million things I still need to do for Rhett's birthday I'm completely unfocused on anything else!