Decks only Written quotes Ontario Building Code

An Ottawa deck crew, and nothing else

Deck Builders Experts builds, replaces and repairs decks in Ottawa. That is the whole trade list, and the narrowness is deliberate.

The parts of a deck that decide whether it lasts are structural, hidden and unglamorous, and they are the first things that get rushed by a crew doing decks between other jobs.

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Tell us what you are planning and we will come back in writing.

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So the right crew reviews your project.

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How we work

We Quote From the Site, Not From a Price List

A square-foot rate is a useful planning number and a poor quote. What actually sets the price on an Ottawa deck is the grade the yard sits at, how material gets from the street to the back of the house, whether the rear wall can take a ledger connection or the deck has to be framed freestanding, and how deep the footings have to go before they are in stable ground. None of that is visible from a photo or a phone call. So we come out, look at it, and put the scope, the material and the price in writing before anything is ordered. If we find something that changes the job partway through, it goes back to you in writing and waits for your decision.

The Details We Do Not Skip

These are the items that separate a deck that lasts from one that starts moving in its third spring.

Footings to depth

Sonotubes taken to frost depth, commonly 1.5 m in Ottawa and eastern Ontario, with the base diameter sized to the load the post is actually carrying.

Posts on saddles

Galvanized post saddles above the concrete rather than posts embedded in it, because embedded posts hold water against end grain and rot at grade.

Flashed ledger connection

Ledger flashing that sheds water out and away from the rim joist. A failed ledger is the most common cause of serious deck failure, and it is invisible until it is not.

Every hanger hole filled

Joist hangers with the correct structural fasteners in every hole, not roofing nails in half of them.

Code-height guards

1,070 mm guards, with 900 mm permitted while the walking surface stays within 1.8 m of the finished ground, and baluster spacing that keeps a 100 mm sphere from passing through a required guard.

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What We Will Not Tell You

A new brand collects claims slowly. We would rather publish nothing than publish something we cannot back.

No blanket guarantee

We do not advertise a site-wide warranty. Any workmanship warranty is set out in your written quote, job by job, so it describes the deck we actually built for you.

No unverified credentials

You will not find licence numbers, insurance badges or certification logos on this site, because we do not publish a credential until it is confirmed in writing.

No invented numbers

No project counts, no years-in-business figure, no star ratings. The cost ranges we publish are market data from cited 2026 cost guides, labelled as such.

Repair first

We Would Rather Fix It Than Sell You a Rebuild

A lot of the decks we are called out to look at do not need replacing. If the footings are at depth, the ledger is sound and flashed, and the framing is not rotted, then the deck underneath is fine and what you are looking at is a surface problem. New boards and new guards over sound framing runs a fraction of a full rebuild, and we will tell you when that is the case even though the smaller job is the smaller invoice. The reverse holds too. When footings are shallow and a deck has already racked with frost, we say plainly that repairs are money spent twice, and we put that assessment in writing so you can get a second opinion on it.

Where Our Crews Work

Ottawa and fifteen surrounding communities. Lot conditions change how a deck gets built across that range: a narrow Vanier side passage means every joist is carried in by hand, while a Greely acre lot means the truck backs up to the build. We quote from what the site demands rather than from the postal code.

About Working With Us

How long has Deck Builders Experts been operating?

We do not publish a founding date or a years-in-business figure. It is a number that is easy to inflate and impossible for you to check, so we leave it off and let the written quote and the assessment speak for the work instead.

Are you insured?

We do not display insurance or licensing claims on this website, because nothing goes on the site until it is confirmed in writing. Ask us directly when we come out for the site visit and you will get a straight answer with documentation rather than a badge on a webpage.

Who actually shows up to build the deck?

The same outfit that quotes it. We do not broker the work out to a subcontractor you have never spoken to and then disappear. If a specialist trade is needed on a particular build, such as an electrician for deck lighting, that is identified in the written quote up front.

What happens if you find a problem once you start?

Work stops on that item and you get the finding in writing with a price to address it, before we carry on. Nothing gets added to the invoice that you have not agreed to in advance. That is the whole point of quoting from a site visit rather than a photo.