Two decks
One rebuild from the footings up on a deck that had gone soft, and one composite deck with an aluminium rail. Both built to sit level through a Utah winter.
Taking one down to the dirt
The first deck had reached the age where the boards flex underfoot and the steps have gone soft at the nose. You can face-screw new boards onto a frame like that and it will look fine for a season, but the problem is underneath.
So it came out entirely, down to the dirt. New footings, laid out and set before anything went back on top. That's the part of a deck job nobody sees and the part that decides whether it's still flat in ten years.
It went back as composite — no annual stain, no splinters, and it holds its colour through a Utah winter and the freeze-thaw that follows. Steps down to the lawn on the same line as the old ones, so the path in the grass still made sense.
Before & after
A second deck, another house
Different job, same idea — composite boards with a black aluminium rail, which stays put and never needs painting.
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