Decks, screened porches and front porches built and finished — in Raeford and all around it.
Back-yard living is most of the year here, and the yards around Hope Mills, Raeford and Fayetteville have the room for it. JJ Construction of Raeford builds decks, screened porches and front porches — and builds them as the same kind of work, because the framing under a deck and the framing under a porch floor are the same problem.
Manufactured and modular homes around Raeford are their own version of this: the deck, the porch, the steps and the skirting all have to be built to fit the house rather than bought off a shelf. Call James at (910) 574-4887 or Luis at (910) 651-6256 for a free estimate.
A deck comes apart from two places: where it attaches to the house, and where it meets the ground. The ledger board bolted to the house is the one that matters most — bolted properly and flashed so rain running down the siding goes past it instead of soaking into the band joist behind it, which is how a deck rots the house it is attached to without anybody noticing. At the other end, posts sit on footings sized for the load, which in the sandy soil around here is not a detail to guess at. Between those two points, joists get hung and spaced for the decking that is actually going on top, and boards get laid with the gaps a humid climate needs so they can move without cupping. Screened porches add a roof, and a porch roof has to tie into the existing roof with real flashing, which is why the same company doing your roof doing your porch is not a coincidence. Around the lake and the creeks in Hope Mills, moisture is the whole story — deck boards, porch framing and the gutters overhead get looked at as one system, because water coming off a roof with no gutter lands on the deck below it every time it rains.
James or Luis walks the yard, checks how the house sits and where water runs, and gives a free estimate.
Footings go in and the ledger is bolted and flashed to the house before any framing sits on it.
Posts, beams and joists go up, then decking is laid with the spacing a humid climate needs.
Railings, stairs, screen and any roof go on last, and the finished deck or porch is walked with you.
Raeford, Fayetteville and the towns around them are not one market — a Fort Bragg rental turning over, a brick ranch off Bragg Boulevard and a new build in Hope Mills are three different jobs.
Tell us what the house needs — a roof, a bathroom, a deck, a fence — and send photos on WhatsApp if it is easier. Call James, or Luis if James is on a roof. English and Spanish.
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