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✓ Frost-deep footings ✓ Permits handled ✓ Written quotes

Deck Builders in Troy, MI

Troy Deck Builders designs, builds, replaces, and refinishes decks across Troy and the Oakland County suburbs. Most of this city went up between 1960 and 1989, and the first-generation decks bolted to it are aging out. We build the second one right, on frost-deep footings, with hardware that lasts. Call for a written quote.

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What We Build

Deck services for Troy homes

New builds, tear-outs, composite conversions, structural repairs, finish work, and roofed rooms, handled start to finish by one local team.

Elevated wood deck with pergola behind a row of brick two-story houses

Deck Building

New custom decks engineered for frost-deep footings and Troy's permit process.

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Temporary shoring braces holding a porch roof during a rebuild

Deck Replacement

Tear-out and rebuild for decks from Troy's 1960s-80s building boom.

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Rooftop terrace with brown deck boards, planters and a white umbrella

Composite Decking

Capped composite installed to the manufacturer's gapping spec, HOA colors included.

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Deck Repair

Probe-first repairs for heaved footings, soft posts, and loose railings.

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Freshly stained deck boards beside a stone fireplace wall

Deck Staining & Sealing

Cleaning, brightening, and finish work timed to the dry windows.

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Sunroom windows and french doors opening to a deck

Three-Season Rooms & Screened Porches

Roofed, screened, and glassed rooms that stretch deck season into November.

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Why Us

Why hire us for your Troy deck?

Because a deck here has to survive frost that reaches 42 inches, wet springs, and a freeze-thaw winter that pries at every fastener. We dig footings below the frost line, through-bolt and flash every ledger, and spec hot-dip galvanized or stainless hardware that can live in treated lumber. We handle the paperwork most homeowners dread: the emailed permit application, the plot plan, and the HOA sign-off Troy itself recommends before deck work starts. Inspections are scheduled, not dodged. The quote is written, itemized, and costs nothing. And when a 1970s frame is too far gone to save, we say so and price the rebuild honestly.

Footings below frost

Piers dug to the 42-inch line and inspected open, so posts stay level through March.

Ledgers done right

Through-bolted to the band joist and metal-flashed, never nailed through siding and hoped for.

Permits handled

We draw the plot plan and email Troy's application for you.

HOA approvals

Design sheets your association can approve on the first pass.

Hardware that lasts

Hot-dip galvanized or stainless fasteners matched to treated lumber.

Straight answers

Probe results, options, and honest verdicts in writing before you spend a dollar on anything.

Is your Troy deck showing these six signs?

Most of the decks we replace went up when these subdivisions did, in the 1960s through the 1980s. Their last seasons tend to look the same. If two or more of these feel familiar, have the structure probed before you host on it.

Posts gone soft

Posts set straight into dirt wick water and rot from the bottom up, right where the whole deck's load sits.

Heaved footings

Piers dug short of the frost line lift with each freeze and drop in spring, racking stairs and railings visibly out of level.

Wobbly guardrails

A rail that moves under your hand will not hold a leaning adult at height. The post-to-frame connection has already failed.

Rust streaks

Orange streaks bleeding down joists and posts mean the wrong fasteners are quietly corroding inside modern treated lumber.

Bouncy spans

A trampoline feel underfoot points at undersized, over-spanned, or waterlogged joists. New deck boards will not fix any of those.

Ledger pulling away

A gap opening between the deck and the house is the one sign we return calls about the same day. Stay off the deck until it is probed.

Freshly stained deck boards beside a stone fireplace wall Two wicker chairs and a wooden side table on a deck by a railing
TROYDeck Specialists

Second decks for a second-cycle city

Troy grew fast between 1960 and 1989; about 59 percent of its houses date from those three decades, from Sylvan Glen to Northfield Hills. The original decks, and many first replacements, are now 30 to 50 years old, built to older rules with hardware nobody would pass today. That is the work we live in. Troy Deck Builders builds new decks, replaces worn ones, installs composite decking, repairs frames and railings, stains and seals, and adds screened and three-season rooms across Troy and nearby Oakland County. We quote from a site visit, not a satellite photo, and every number goes in writing.

  • ✓ Oakland County local
  • ✓ Itemized written quotes
  • ✓ Permits pulled, inspected
  • ✓ Code-current hardware
  • ✓ HOA design help
  • ✓ Frost-deep footings
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Our Promise

We treat your yard like a jobsite we have to be proud of at final inspection. Footings below frost. Ledgers bolted and flashed. Hardware that outlives the boards, and a site left broom-clean every evening. If a deck is not worth saving, we tell you straight.

Service Area

Deck builders across Oakland County

We work from our Troy base out to Rochester Hills, Birmingham, and Royal Oak, and across Dequindre into Warren. Same spec everywhere, no out-of-area surcharge inside the county. If your town touches Troy, you are covered; if it only comes close, ask anyway. The site visit is quick and the quote costs nothing either way.

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Questions

Deck answers for Troy homeowners

Pressure-treated decks in Troy typically run $25-$45 per square foot installed. Railing footage, stair count, and footing conditions move a job inside that band more than square footage does. Capped composite runs higher and skips the refinish cycle. Every quote is itemized in writing so you can compare bids fairly.
Almost always. Under the current Michigan Residential Code only a small, low, detached platform kept clear of the house and any exit door is exempt. Anything attached needs a permit; Troy takes deck applications by email with a signed form and scaled plot plan. We file the packet.
42 inches, Michigan's frost line. Piers that stop short lift a little every winter and drop again in April, which is why so many older stairs and railings sit out of level. We dig every footing below frost and pour concrete only after the open holes pass inspection.
Sometimes. If posts, joists, and the ledger probe sound, a resurface swaps worn boards for new wood or composite at a fraction of a rebuild. If the structure is soft, resurfacing is lipstick on a failing frame. We probe posts, joists, and ledger first and tell you which job you actually have.
No, just a step. Troy itself recommends clearing exterior projects with your neighborhood association before permitting, and the city keeps an official directory of them. We prepare the drawings and material sheets most boards want to see and fold approval time into the schedule.
Builds run roughly April through October. Frozen ground slows footing digs, so winter is for design, HOA sign-off, and permits. Sign in the cold months and you are first on the spring schedule instead of waiting behind the May rush with everyone else who called after the thaw.
Treated wood costs less up front and asks for re-cleaning and re-coating on a cycle. Capped composite costs more on day one and skips the finish work. The longer you plan to stay, the better composite pencils out. We quote both when asked.
The building is usually the short part; a straightforward deck is days of site work. Plan review and HOA approval are the long poles, so the honest answer runs a few weeks door to door. We give you the schedule in writing before we start.
Probe it. Rotted wood is soft and spongy under a screwdriver point, especially at posts, stair stringers, and where the deck meets the house. Movement in a guardrail or a gap opening at the ledger are the signs we treat as stop-using-it urgent.
Yes. Rochester Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Royal Oak, Clawson, Madison Heights, and Warren are all regular stops. Same crew, same hardware spec, and the same standards Troy inspections see. No travel surcharge anywhere inside Oakland County, and Warren counts as local too.

Get on the spring schedule

Spring slots fill first. Call now, walk the yard with us, and have a written, itemized quote in hand before the frost is out of the ground.

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