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Composite Patio

Three tier deck with multiple stairs and landing area

Front Porch

Front porch roof and porch deck constructed in 1997, Berks County, PA.

Pressure Treated deck

This is a pressure treated deck which was constructed in 1995. Went back when the lumber was dry and put on a brilliant choice of stain.

Hot Tub Access

Built to elevation of hot tub with stairs to enter and seating all around.

Composite / Trex

This deck has Trex decking installed on the surface and we used the Endurance railing system with a colored top handrail for that little added look.

Pressure Treated deck

This treated lumber deck was constructed with an open wrap around stair case> Great open area to entertain on.

Mountain project built 1995

This deck was constructed on the back of a mountain home in Berks County in 1995.

Pressure treated deck

This is a side porch with a full lattice enclosure all the way around the bottom of the deck.

Pressure treated deck

This deck is elevated and built from pressure treated lumber. stained with a natural tone waterproof and stain.

Wrap around deck

This deck wraps around the corner of the house. lower profile with a full enclosure all the way around for privacy

The Boardwalk

An elevated walkway. Woof !

Pressure treated deck

Low profile deck with one step up onto the deck surface.

Elevated Deck

Elevated mountain home deck in Schuykill County, PA.

Lake Side View

Built over Lake Ontelaunee in Pine Grove, PA in 1996.

Small pressure treated porch

This pressure treated deck has an open stair well with a slight arch in the handrails. Very elegant with the final touch with the beautiful landscape.

Pressure Treated Lumber

Treated lumber deck with bench & flower boxes. Full enclosure all the way around

Wrap Around Stair

Low profile deck with no railings. Stair that wraps around two sides.

Pressure Treated Lumber

Built out of No. 2 pressure treated lumber.

Three deck tiers of surface

This gigantic 3 tier deck has a little bit of everything going on. Arched and curved platforms and rails give this deck an awesome touch. Great place to entertain your guests.

Cedar enclosure

This deck had the enclosure put all the way around to give it a nice closed look. All of the enclosure boards are installed in a vertical pattern.

Low elevation

This pressure treated deck had to be built close to the ground. Chopped corners for a different look. Small porch roof constructed to cove the space.

Pressure treated deck

Beautiful pressure treated deck with an opened back end look. A bit lower to the ground so we were able to open it up. Wide stair opening for easy access.

2 Tier deck with a wrap around stair

2 Tier deck with flower box to a rear entree access. Keep in mind if you like the wrap around stair look we can change elevations to your deck to account for it.

Open Layout

Open deck plan with a four foot stair. We are using a trex aluminum railing system here

Elevated w/stairs

This deck was built out of pressure treated lumber and stained. Downingtown, PA 2001.

The Herringbone

This is just an top elevation of a deck board installed in a style called Herringbone.

Roof & Patio

A beautiful A-Frame roof built over a pressure treated deck. A couple sets of stairs make this deck very accessable.

Composite Trex

This is a composite trex deck with hidden fasteners. There are close to no surface screws anywhere for a really nice clean look. We finished the railings off with Landmarke railing system in white vinyl.

Pressure Treated deck

This deck is pictured framed with 2-1/2" rise on the bottom rail from the deck surface. This is just an aesthetic look that they wanted.

Pressure Treated deck w/full enclosure

This deck was built in Lancaster County in 1988. It is also a deck that is elevated but hidden by all the hand crafted lumber and lattice enclosure.

Landing w/stairs

Just a small deck landing built with long stair case for entry at the rear of the property.

The Radius w/radius stair case

This is what the framing looks like underneath the deck surface. This particular deck has a radius not only on the deck itself but on the stair case too.

Radius deck removal

This was a removal of a large radius deck. This was a 2 day project to remove.

Platform surface w/angles

Just a low landing deck area with all the deck boards running on diagonals.

Mountain House

This deck was built back in 1988 on a mountain home in Berks County, PA.

Open Front Porch

Built in Berks County, PA in 1990.

Pressure Treated deck

This deck was totally constructed out of pressure treated lumber. You have the front porch and entry area stepping down to a larger front landing with no rails. Also has a nice long flower box.

Deck & Sunroom

Basically a sunroom built on a deck with a small side porch to enter and exit.

Composite w/ vinyl railing & enclosure

The surface on this deck is composite Evergrain decking & face board. Vinyl railings are the Landmark railing system with vinyl lattice enclosure.

Framing

This is a back porch framing on a South Philadelphia row home. Ledger board is lagged to the house rim joist.

Framework

Front face board is scribed out and cut to the contour of the existing concrete patio.

Deck Resurface

This resurface is called a Herringbone style. The decking meets on a center line creating a V-like look.

Resurface

This is a view of the newly surfaced stairs. This is what you call a closed riser look.

Resurface

This view shows some of the open framing underneath the deck surface. We have already started laying down the new surface.

Resurface

Looking down at the joint line where the decking meets. All this decking is 2x6 pressure treated lumber.

Resurface

This is another view of the completed deck showing the stairs and lattice work.

Resurface

This shows the deck completed out looking over the in ground pool at this property.

Resurface

This is a view of the deck showing the new stair and lattice that was installed.

Resurface

This shows a new stair on a poured concrete landing. We opened up a section of railing and tied the new stair into that opening.

Herringbone Design

This is an arial view of the decking. This shows the continuous pattern used when completely installed.

Resurface

This shows the starting point of the herringbone at the front of the deck. This design always runs in an upside down V look.

Resurface

This shows a view of the completion of the deck surface. All the decking is pressure treated lumber.

Tile Work around basement bar

This is ceramic tile work in a finished basement in Richboro, PA

Finished Basement Tile

This shows the spacing of the ceramic tiles. These spacers will be taken out when they are all set. Once dry we can start grouting our joints

Finished Basement Tile

The new carpet being installed will butt up against the perimeter of the new tile.

Finished Basement Tile

Almost ready for grout! Once we get it spread into the joints we will let it set up. We will then go back with a wet sponge and go over the entire surface cleaning off all excess grout.

Staining

Pictures from a deck that was built & stained in Morrisville, PA in 2007.

Natural Tone Stain

Pictures from a deck that was built & stained in Morrisville, PA in 2007.

Stain

Pictures from a deck that was built & stained in Morrisville, PA in 2007.

Concrete Stairs

Typical front stair entry to the house. We used galvanized surface mounts for the posts with the Fairway railing system installed.

Double window opening

This is the beginning of a French Door installation.

Double window opening

We removed the two windows a radiator inside and the siding outside.

French Door Installation

Cut out and prepped the opening for the new door.

French Door Installation

Set the new door in the opening and fastened it properly. Insulated and repaired the sheetrock inside.

French Door Installation

Reused the existing siding on the exterior.

French Door Installation

Completed French Door installation.

Treated Lumber

The beginning stages of building a 16x16. This deck is an elevated deck.

Treated Lumber

Shows the new decking we screwed down.

Treated Lumber Deck

You are looking across the new surface to the railing on the far side.

Setting up a new stair

We always put a concrete pad under the bottom of the stair stringers for support and less rotting on the lumber. This is code in most townships.

Setting up a new stair

Once the concrete is dry we can pull off the forms and add in the other stringers and install the new treads.

Treated Lumber deck

This is the stair uncompleted along with the stair opening and uncompleted railing.

Installing a 6 foot sliding glass door

First we lay out and cut the opening whether its a framed wall or a brick wall as you see here.

The opening is cut and demo is complete

New treated lumber framing is installed to receive the new sliding door.

New sliding door

We then fasten the door permanently to the new framing and insulate around the inside part of the door.

Trim and Flashing

The door is flashed and the top and side caps are installed and all joints are caulked so its entirely waterproof.

Treated Lumber deck

Finished deck with new 6 foot sliding glass door. This deck was built in NE Philadelphia.

Treated Lumber deck

Finished deck with new 6 foot sliding glass door. The new door that was installed was an Anderson Slider.

Two Tier Deck Framing

This show the start of a two tier deck frame. This first section will incorporate an existing concrete step coming out off the back of the property.

Two Tier Framing

This shows another view of the deck ledger attached to the house. All the framing is 2x10 sitting in the joist hangers.

Two Tier Faming

This upper section of framing is now almost complete. There does not have to have a hand rail on this deck since it meets code standards because of the low deck height.

Two Tier Framing

This shows the lower deck tier being framed. The lower framing runs different from the upper framing to give it a really nice aesthetic look. The drop down ledger is a 2x12 so there is a proper elevation change from upper to lower surfaces.

Two Tier Framing

This shows the lower tier almost completed and ready for the new pressure treated decking.

Existing entry to be removed

This is a deck thats being removed & a new one installed in Morrisville, PA. This is a small townhouse deck approx. 6'x10'.

Removal

Beings this is an end unit on this town home the homeowner can go with a deck twice the size of what he had there before.

Pressure Treated Deck Framing

This photo shows the 2x10 framing and the double 2x10 beam. We normally always use 2x10's to frame the deck with.

Pressure treated Deck framing

Looking in at the open framing coming off the back of the house.

Pressure Treated deck Framing

This also shows the new frame work. this deck is about 3' off the ground. We are just about ready to start installing the new pressure treated surface.

New Pressure Treated deck

This is a newly finished pressure treated deck in Morrisville, PA on the end of a townhouse property

New pressure treated deck

Completed pressure treated deck railing in Morrisville, PA.

New pressure treated deck

Completed pressure treated deck & railing in Morrisville, PA.

New pressure treated deck

Pressure treated deck built in Morrisville, PA with a 5 foot stair opening for easy access

Pressure treated deck

New deck in Morrisville, PA. It has an attached bench for seating.

Pressure treated deck

New deck in Morrisville, PA. This deck has a bench for seating built against the hand rail side of the deck. This deck is approx. 16'x16'

Pressure treated deck

Same deck in Morrisville, PA. Different angle of the seating area. This bench would probably hold at least 4 people comfortably.

Existing stairs

This is a existing deck in NE Philadelphia. The stairs are totally unsafe. they are awaiting to be taken down & new stairs built.

Old surface removal

Same deck in NE Philly. We are removing the surface. This will eventually get a new surface of trex decking.

Old surface removal

Removal of old decking on a treated lumber deck in NE Philly. Will get new trex decking on the existing framing.

Removal of old surface

NE Philly deck. removal of existing pressure treated boards. Made a cut down the center of the deck for easier removal.

Existing pressure treated deck

NE Philly deck. decking removal almost complete. Existing framing shows the existing bridge work. All framing is gone over so it will pass all building codes.

New custom stairs

These stairs were custom built with a new 4'x4' landing. All decking is Trex and railing are Landmarke railings. This is the same deck from NE Philadelphia.

New composite railings

New Landmarke vinyl railings. These railing will withstand a blow of 200lbs per square inch. Home Depot railings would shatter before that. The top & bottom rails have a heavy gauge aluminum inside them for outstanding durability.

New vinyl gate

NE Philly deck with new gate & hardware. We normally use the Endurance railing brand gate but there are different options to chose from.

Composite Trex with white vinyl railings

New composite deck in NE Philadelphia. This was an existing pressure treated surface converted over to composite. All decking is Trex.

New composite with white vinyl railings

This view is from the house across the deck looking at the gated opening. All railings are Landmarke brand.

White vinyl railings

New railings with a high profile look. Something the customer requested. This is the same NE Philly deck.

NE Philadelphia composite Looking straight at the gate area. The entire deck was all pressure treated and we removed the entire surface. We changed everything to materials that are easily cleaned and maintained.

Custom stairs with landing Looking down through the stairs from the deck surface.

Composite stairs with landing Looking down at the entire stairs. Most composite stairs have closed rises. This one is open.

New composite resurface with vinyl railings This NE Philly deck completed. Looking in from the back of the property.

Deck Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. This is the start of a deck installed 3 stories up in the air. Here we have anchored and installed the top plate on the parapet.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. The top plate will be used to attach our deck framing to it.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Every joist will be set and anchored to the top plate with hurricane clips.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. All joist are to be set at or on 16 inch centers.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. This is the completed frame work of the deck.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. This is just looking down to see how high up we were working.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. We are setting up to start cutting and attaching railing posts.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. These are the posts going into the inside of our framing.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Posts are anchored with carriage bolts inside the framing.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Now that the posts are mounted we can start setting our deck boards.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. All decking is screwed with teflon coated screws.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. 2x4's are going in between the posts to carry the spindals.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Now the railings start to go together.

Deck Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. We did the front railing sections first.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. The side railings go in last when the rest of the decking is installed.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. This deck is on a 3rd floor master bedroom.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. You step out and up onto the deck surface from the bedroom.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Small but simply awesome view to sit out and drink your morning coffee and read the paper.

Built on a Parapet Wall, Philadelphia, PA. Finished pictures of the deck and surface.

Old driveway removal This is the removal of the old concrete apron and sidewalk that enters the street.

Asphalt driveway removal Looking in from the street. We are getting ready to remove all the asphalt.

Asphalt driveway removal You can see the cracks in the driveway. The surface roots from the tree in front of the property are pushing up the asphalt.

Existing driveway Surface roots pushing through the driveway surface.

Driveway removal Surface roots popping up the asphalt in the carport area.

Driveway removal Looking in from the backyard. Its approx. 10'x70' of removal plus the side walk.

Driveway removal Looking down the driveway at the surface roots pushing through. This is going to be a new concrete driveway.

Driveway removal Jack hammering up the old asphalt.

Existing driveway removal More jack hammering of the old asphalt. Once this is all removed we can start excavation.

Driveway removal Broken pieces of asphalt. This really is the beginning stages of a new concrete driveway.

Driveway excavation We bring in a machine and excavate all the asphalt off first.

Driveway excavation This is a view of the excavation and what the underground conditions are like. This particular driveway had a lot of big surface roots in the way.

Driveway excavation More of the ground conditions while removing topsoil.

Driveway excavation These are just some of the roots we ran into while excavating a driveway.

Driveway excavation Looking down the driveway from inside the machine. We are trying to get an even 10"-12" below grade to set up form work eventually.

Driveway excavation Looking in at the machine.

Driveway excavation Looking down along side of the machine. We are starting to get close to the grade we want to be at.

Excavation Leveling out the ground with the machine.

Gehl front end loader These machines are nice to use because you can get into tight spaces.

Gehl loader This machine is very much similar to a bobcat.

Concrete form work for a driveway We are using 2'x6' for our form work. We are also using d-pin stakes to hold the two by sixes up.

Concrete form work Setting up the concrete form for a new concrete driveway.

Concrete form work Our elevations are running from the house to the existing height of the curb.

Concrete form work This is a photo looking at where the walkway cuts into the pour.

concrete form work for driveway All forms are staked and nailed. stakes are below grade a bit so the don't interfere with finishing

Concrete from work Looking in from the street of the form work. Getting ready for stone.

Concrete form work Looking in at the form work. We will need approx. 5"-6" of stone leveled out for the entire length of the driveway.

Concrete driveway This driveway is ready to pour. We have all our form work up. The stone is in and graded along with the wire mesh.

driveway stone we normally use 2b or 3/4 blue stone before pouring our concrete

Concrete driveway This driveway is ready for concrete. This will end up being around 18 yards of concrete.

Concrete pour We are getting ready to start pouring our driveway. We normally use local concrete companies from your area.

Concrete pour We coordinate the pour with the driver and the finishers. Normally I let the finishers just do there thing.

Concrete pour We will be starting our pour at the back corner of the house and working our way towards the street. The driver can just get to the carport to start our pour.

Concrete pour This driveway will end up finishing out to be 77 feet long by 12 feet wide.

Concrete pour We are getting our second truck load of concrete. This will be a 4000 air rated mix which we use for all driveways.

Concrete finishers We normally use 3 finishers to do a driveway. They level it and bull float it. Once it dries enough they put a nice broom finish on it for me.

Concrete pour The beginning of our driveway pour. We are starting to empty our first of 2 trucks.

Concrete driveway pour We are getting our concrete pour into our form work.

Concrete finishers The finishers are leveling out the concrete. They are putting in expansion joints as they go.

Concrete driveway pour This driveway was done in Levittown, PA. We are getting ready to start pouring our driveway.

Concrete driveway pour We are starting to get the concrete in place. We try to pour at around a 4 inch slump if possible.

Concrete driveway pour Looking in at the finishers working there magic. They have to move fast and keep up with the pour. We definitely have to avoid a cold joint between trucks.

Concrete driveway1 Our completed concrete driveway in Levittown, PA. We completed all the landscape around the driveway.

Concrete driveway2 This is our finished driveway after all the topsoil and seeding was done. All the grass has come back up around the entire driveway.

Concrete driveway3 the concrete mix was 4000 with air poured at 6"-8" thick.

Shed Rehab Carpenter ants do a number to regular lumber and they got to this shed and ate it up. We replaced everything with pressure treated lumber.

Shed Rehab We took everything on the front of the shed off and replaced 90% of the framing under the front landing. We then resurfaced that area.

Shed Rehab Installed new 4x4 posts.

Shed Rehab Built a new ramp for access.

Shed Rehab The homeowner went back and put a good stain on then after the lumber had dried out.

Fairless Hills, PA This is a resurface of a lower pool deck. They tried to span 16' 2x6 over a 16' area with no center support.

Fairless Hills, PA This photo shows how bad the joist were sagging out of level.

Fairless Hills, PA This shows the new support underneath the existing joist.

Fairless Hills, PA We are showing the existing framing and how the new support ties into the joist that were sagging.

Fairless Hills, PA Finishing up the framework to start the new surface installation.

Fairless Hills, PA You see the new beam in so now we can start to deck in the surface.

Fairless Hills, PA We are using new no.2PT lumber for the surface.

Fairless Hills, PA All of our boards are 5/4x6 PT lumber

Fairlewss Hills, PA This view is looking in at the house with the new surface completed.

Fairless Hills, PA This is another angle of the finished project.

Fairless Hills, PA The view meets the existing lower deck. It goes along the house then around to the entrance to an above ground pool.

Penndel, PA Composite Deck with Fairway railings & white lattice encloser.

Penndel, PA Another view of the stairs.

Penndel, PA All the white trim board is Azec with composite core decking.

Penndel, PA The stair egress to the driveway. All our railings are Fairway railings.

Penndel, PA This is a view of the front of the deck and the stairs.

Penndel, PA This is the other stair leading to the back yard. We poured a small concrete pad to land the stair stringers on.

Penndel, PA The stairs rides up along the side of the hot tub on to the main deck surface.

Penndel, PA This is the upper area that we put new decking on.

Penndel, PA This is the section running over towards the driveway side of the deck.

Penndel, PA This photo is of the open deck area. Lots of room with two sets of stairs.

New Pressure Treated deck Framing This is a small bumped out area around the front corner of the deck thats going to receive a new bench.

New pressure Treated deck Framing You can see the sliding glass door in the back. When you come out of the house you actually walk up onto this deck surface. All framing is 2x10.

New Pressure treated deck Framing This shows the deck framing and the start of the decking. We always start bringing are deck from the front of the deck towards the back of the house.

New Pressure Treated deck Framing Looking down into the framework. All the joist are set at 16" OC

New Pressure Treated deck This is a new deck built in Bensalem, PA 19020 on the back of a townhouse. This shows the start of the detail in the hand rails.

New Pressure treated deck This shows the new rail going across the front view of the deck. Its just about ready for the installation of the new spindles .

New Pressure Treated deck This is a view looking in towards the house. It shows how low the elevation is to the ground.

New Pressure Treated deck This shows the new front railings and the new bench positioned in the corner.

New Pressure Treated deck We have the new decking installed looking toward the side opening which drops down to a single stair for easy access.

New Pressure Treated deck Finished pressure treated deck In Bensalem, PA. All railing spindle spacing is to be at 4" or less by code standards.

New Pressure Treated deck Another view of this deck completed with a single stair on the side.

New Pressure Treated deck Side view of the open single stair on this new pressure treated deck. Most openings with 4 steps or more will require a hand rail on both sides. Previous Page