Deck repair - DeKalb County
Dunwoody is mostly 1970s and early 80s split-levels and two-storey traditionals on generous wooded lots, around Dunwoody Village and along Mount Vernon and Chamblee Dunwoody roads. Houses of that age are on their second or third deck surface, often built over the original frame, and mature hardwoods mean leaf litter, shade and dropped limbs. The city has handled its own permits since incorporating in 2008.
Dunwoody filled in during the 1970s and early 80s with split-levels and two-storey traditionals on generous, wooded lots around Dunwoody Village and along Mount Vernon Road, Chamblee Dunwoody Road and Tilly Mill. The hardwoods are now fully grown, which gives the neighbourhoods their character and gives the decks shade, leaf litter, and the occasional dropped limb.
Houses of that age are commonly on their second or third deck surface, and it is not unusual for each one to have gone straight onto the original frame. A frame that has carried two sets of boards through forty-plus Georgia summers needs probing before it carries a third. Often it is fine, with a few joists to sister. Sometimes the ledger was never flashed and the house end is soft.
Storms here bring limbs down onto decks. Split boards are the obvious part; what matters more is the railing and whatever joist or beam sat directly under the impact. We check those first. Permits here go through the City of Dunwoody, which has run its own since incorporating in 2008.
Mostly frame checks and resurfacing on older decks: resurfacing, joist sistering, ledger flashing, storm-damage repair, railings, staining, screened porches, replacement.
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