Decks & patios · Middletown, NY
Deck and patio installation
Framed from the footings up, finished in composite boards with white rails, and tied to the house at every stair and landing.
The frame decides everything above it
A deck is won or lost before the first board goes down. Posts, beams and joists carry the load, and every board, rail and stair afterward is only as straight as the frame underneath. Chriss Construction has a photo of a deck frame going up, bare structure against the sky, because that stage is the one worth showing.
On a yard in Middletown or Newburgh the walk-through comes first: where the doors land, which way the ground falls, where the soft spots are. Those answers set the footing layout and the joist direction. Questions about a yard go to (845) 400-8893 before anyone picks up a saw.
Composite deck with white railings and black balusters
Composite boards, white rails, black balusters
The finished deck in the photo on this page pairs composite boards with white railings and black balusters. White rail against dark pickets gives the edge a crisp line you can read from the driveway, and composite means the boards are not on a yearly staining schedule the way raw wood is.
Layout gets settled on paper first: which way the boards run, where the seams fall, how the pattern lands square at the house wall. That is how a deck ends up looking like one planned surface instead of boards that ran out in the wrong place.
Stairs and landings that stay tied in
Stairs are where a deck gets judged. Every step needs the same rise, the landing has to be deep enough to stand on while a door swings, and the connection to the house has to be flashed and fastened so it stays put through freeze and thaw.
Reviewers of Chriss and his crew describe a man who supervises his own team and the other trades on site, and who leaves the property clean when the job ends. On a deck, that means screw ends, offcuts and sawdust gone from the lawn before the truck leaves.
“Team arrived on time worked diligently did an excellent job with cleaning up” Mike Hoffler
The same crew tears off and replaces roofs, so a deck that meets a roofline can be planned alongside the work on the roofing side of the house, from Port Jervis to Montgomery.