Deck & Porch Construction in Itasca

Itasca deck stairs and railings built to code

Stairs are where a deck gets used hardest and where an older deck most often falls short of current code. Uneven risers, treads that flex, a handrail too wide to grip and balusters spaced wide enough for a child to slip through all show up on decks built years ago. When we build or rebuild, every riser is the same height, treads sit on stringers sized for the span, guards go up where the deck is high enough to need them, and balusters are spaced to code. The rest of the deck gets the same care, from a flashed and bolted ledger to treated or composite boards.

Itasca is on our regular route by way of I-290 and Route 53, and Irving Park Road and Thorndale Avenue take us across the village. It is a DuPage County village with its own Metra station. If your back door sits several steps above the yard, the stair is a real structure, with stringers, a landing and a footing of its own at the bottom. A stair that ends on soil or a sinking paver will pull the stringers out of line over time, so we set the bottom on a solid pad or footing that stays put.

Stair, railing and deck work in Itasca

How an Itasca stair or deck job runs

We measure the rise from the deck to the ground, look at the existing stair and rail, and write up a scope that spells out what will be rebuilt and what stays. Permit drawings go to the village once you approve the estimate. If tearing out the old stair shows rot in the rim joist it hangs from, we stop and price that repair in writing before we go on. When the work passes inspection, we walk it with you, step by step.

• Stairs built to current code.
• Railings that hold when you lean on them.
• Stair bottoms set on solid footing.
• Permits and inspections scheduled by us.
• Every change priced in writing first.
• Free on-site estimate.