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Just wanted to thank Billy and Willy for two jobs at my house. Our house has two decks, an upper deck and screened porch, and a platform lower deck under the screen porch. The lower deck had numerous problems primarily due to the pressure treated lumber that was used wasn’t rated for ground contact, and the deck boards were only ½ inch thick. I pulled all of this lumber up only to discover that support beans were only 2x4x8s that were buried in red clay and nailed together to reach 15 feet. Anyway, I need to drop the level of the red clay 4 to 6 inches to install gravel for drainage. Being about 2 ½ cubic yards of dirt, I hired Billy to remove it and install gravel. This took about 2 ½ days to remove the dirt and install the industrial landscape fabric and gavel, roughly 2 ½ to 3 yards of gravel. Billy and Willy did a great job and did their best to level the gravel with the surrounding concrete pool deck.
Next the installation of the new platform deck, which I designed with a perimeter of 4x6x16s and joists of 2x6x16. The 4x6s were attached to the 6x6 supports of the screened porch above. The platform deck was also designed to be a picture frame deck using Trek composite decking. All the framing material was acquired for HD, since their 2x6s were rated for ground contact.
Long story short, I had all the material, but everyday I planned on starting the installation, it rained. With that in mind, Billy had offered to do the installation and could get it done in 2 to 3 days. The price was right, and Willy turned out to be an expert on deck installation. Anyway, the deck turned out beautiful…