Herriman · Salt Lake County, Utah
Deck Builder in Herriman, Utah
Herriman sits at about 5,000 feet against the Oquirrh foothills, and nearly every house here went up after 1998. A lot of those original builder decks are now twenty-odd years old and starting to show it. We build new ones, and we repair or replace the ones that are done.
Someone walks the lot, measures, and checks the wall where a ledger would land. No numbers over the phone.
Footing depth, guard height, ledger attachment and hardware sized for what your city actually checks.
Cedar, pressure-treated, capped composite and PVC — picked for the exposure your deck really gets.
Why decks fail here
Built for the way Utah treats wood
A deck in the Salt Lake Valley gets attacked from two directions. Summer pulls moisture out of the lumber until boards cup, check and start pulling their fasteners. Then winter drives water into every joint and freezes it.
That cycle is why so much of our repair work traces back to the same short list of details: a ledger nailed instead of bolted, no flashing behind it, hangers sized for the wrong lumber, footings that stopped above frost depth. None of those show up in year one. All of them show up eventually.
Getting them right at the start costs very little. Fixing them later usually means taking the deck apart.
- Footings carried below frost depth — Salt Lake City publishes 30 inches, and every city sets its own, so we confirm yours
- Ledgers through-bolted and flashed, or the deck built freestanding where the wall will not take one
- Fasteners and hangers rated for contact with treated lumber, so they do not corrode out from the inside
- Board gaps and frame slope set so meltwater leaves the structure instead of sitting in it
Services
Six things we do
Most projects are one of these. If yours is a mix — new boards plus a stair rebuild, say — that is normal, and it is usually cheaper done in one go than in two visits.
Deck Installation
New decks laid out, footed and framed for your lot — from post holes to the last board.
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Deck Repair
Targeted work on rot, springy boards, failing ledgers and rails that move when you lean on them.
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Deck Replacement
Tear-out and rebuild when the frame is past saving, usually on the same footprint.
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Composite Deck Installation
Capped composite and PVC surfaces on a frame spaced and flashed for the product.
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Wood Deck Construction
Cedar, redwood and pressure-treated framing detailed for dry summers and wet springs.
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Deck Railing Installation
Code-height guards in wood, metal, cable or glass, anchored into real blocking.
See what’s involvedHow it runs
What happens between your message and a finished deck
Six stages. Two of them — plan review and inspection scheduling — run on the city’s clock rather than ours, which is why we start them early.
You get in touch
Send the form with a rough idea of what you want. If there is a deck there already, photos of the underside of the frame and the point where it meets the house save a lot of guessing.
Site visit
We measure the space, check the grade and where water goes in spring, look at how the house wall is built where a ledger would land, and note anything that will move the price.
Design and quote
A layout, a materials list and a number. If there is a cheaper way to get most of what you are after, we say so here rather than after you have signed something.
Permit and drawings
Utah exempts some small, low, freestanding decks from permitting, but attached and raised decks normally need one. We confirm the current rule with your city and prepare the drawings they ask for.
Build
Footings, frame, decking, then guards and stairs. Materials get stacked where they are not in your way, and the site gets cleared at the end of each day.
Inspection and walkthrough
The city inspects at the stages it requires, usually footings and framing. When it is finished we walk it with you and go through what the surface needs and when.
Plan the cost
Plan the numbers before anyone comes out
Six calculators for a Herriman deck — new builds, repair, replacement, composite, wood and railing. Every one of them starts with the measurement that decides the permit, the fee and the guard all at once: 30 inches to the lowest grade around the perimeter.
Not sure whether yours needs repair or replacement?
Send a photo of the underside of the frame and the spot where the deck meets the house. Nine times out of ten that answers it before anyone drives out.
Materials
Wood or composite, honestly
Neither one wins outright. What decides it is exposure, budget, and how much maintenance you are realistically going to do — not which one is better on paper.
Wood is cheaper up front and easy to repair one board at a time. In Utah it needs sealing on a schedule. If it does not get it, boards grey and check within a couple of seasons, and a south-facing deck goes faster than a shaded one.
Capped composite holds its colour and never needs sealing. It costs more, it gets genuinely hot underfoot in August sun, and the frame beneath it usually has to be spaced tighter than wood framing — often 12 inches on centre where boards run diagonally. That framing cost is part of the comparison and it is easy to miss.
We will price both if you would rather see the gap than guess at it.
Before we quote
Three things that decide the number
This is what we are looking at during the site visit, and why a real quote takes a walk around the house rather than a phone call.
The ledger and the wall behind it
Whether the rim joist can carry a bolted ledger at all, whether stucco or brick veneer is in the way, and whether existing flashing has been quietly leaking into the wall. This is the single most common place we find trouble.
Grade, drainage and soil
Where meltwater runs in March, how deep we have to go for a footing that will not heave, and whether the slope calls for taller posts and diagonal bracing. Herriman and Draper lots on a grade change this a lot.
How you will actually use it
A deck for a table and six chairs is a different footprint from one built around a hot tub — and a hot tub changes the framing underneath it entirely, not just the size of it.
Deck types
The kinds of decks we build
Reference images showing the deck styles and materials described on this site. These are not photographs of our own completed projects.
Service areas
Herriman, and 22 cities around it
We work across the south end of the Salt Lake Valley and into northern Utah County. Each city page covers the terrain, the housing stock and the building department you will actually be dealing with.
Questions
Things people ask before they call
Do I need a permit to build a deck in Herriman?
Usually, yes. Utah’s residential code exempts some small, low, freestanding decks, but a deck attached to the house or raised more than a couple of feet is normally permitted work. Rules change and each city applies them slightly differently, so we confirm the current position with Herriman’s building division for your specific project and pull the permit as part of the job.
How long does a deck take?
A straightforward 300 to 400 square foot deck is a few days of on-site work once materials have landed. Calendar time is longer, because permit review and inspection scheduling sit in the middle of it. Multi-level decks, anything carrying a hot tub, and anything with a roof over it run longer.
Can you build in winter?
Footings are the constraint. Digging and pouring in frozen ground can be done, but it is slower and it costs more. Framing and decking carry on fine in the cold. If you want to be using a deck by May, winter is the right time to get the design and the permit sorted.
My deck feels bouncy. Is that dangerous?
Bounce by itself is usually a joist span or missing blocking issue rather than a safety problem. What matters more is the connection to the house and the guard. If the deck shifts away from the wall when you lean on the rail, stop using it and get someone to look underneath.
Will you repair a deck you did not build?
Most of our repair work is on decks somebody else built, often fifteen or twenty years ago. We will also tell you plainly when a frame is far enough gone that repair has stopped making financial sense, even though replacement is the bigger job.
What does a deck cost?
It depends on size, height off the ground, material, and how much guard and stair is involved — rails and stairs are a larger share of the total than most people expect. We do not quote over the phone, because a number given without seeing the site is not worth anything to either of us.
Tell us what you are thinking about
Send the form with what you have in mind and, if there is a deck there already, a couple of photos. We will come out and look at it.
Request a Quote
Tell us about your deck project below, including rough size, materials and photos if you have them, and we will follow up to set up a free estimate.