About Meridian Deck Co

Why the writing exists

Deck quality is unusually hard to shop for. The parts that decide whether a deck lasts twenty years are buried within a week of starting: footings under backfill, a ledger behind flashing and siding, joists under boards. What is left visible is the surface, and the surface is the cheapest part of the job. Two builders can quote the same footprint six thousand dollars apart and a homeowner has no way to see which difference is real.

So we wrote down the things that are checkable. What the City of Meridian exempts from a permit. Where the frost line sits and why it sets footing depth. The 30 inch line that decides whether a deck needs a guard. What joist spacing capped composite requires and why a 1990s frame usually cannot take it. What a Treasure Valley summer at 2,600 feet does to cedar in three years.

How it works

1. Send the details. Call or use the form. Rough size, where the door is, which way the yard faces, a budget band if you have one. Five minutes.
2. A deck builder calls you. We hand the project to a local builder working your part of the valley, and that builder is the one who phones.
3. Site measure and a written price. They walk the yard, check the grade and the rim joist, and follow up with a quote split across footings, framing, decking, rail, and stairs.
4. Read it with our numbers beside it. Our guides give you Idaho figures to compare against. Take as long as you want with the decision.

Who tends to get in touch

• First deck on a newer house. The most common project in Meridian by a wide margin. A builder left a slider onto grass, and a decade later the household finally does something about it.
• Second deck on a 2000s subdivision house. Bear Creek, Baldwin Park, Lochsa Falls and the rest of that wave are twenty years in, and their first decks are at the end of their surface life.
• Shade problems. A west-facing back yard in a valley that runs a July normal high near 93 degrees, and a deck nobody uses after two in the afternoon.
• Something that feels wrong. A rail that moves when leaned on, a stair that has racked, a deck that has started to pull away from the house. These get looked at rather than quoted from photos.

What a well-run deck project looks like

• A written price, broken into parts. Footings, framing, decking, rail, stairs. Five lines rather than one number, so two bids can be compared.
• Permitted work. Decks attached to a house, over 200 square feet, or more than one story go through the City of Meridian Building Services Division, and the contractor handles the application and meets the inspector.
• Footings that reach. Bearing on undisturbed soil below the frost line, verified by the building official before concrete goes in.
• Registration you can look up. Idaho requires contractors doing work over $2,000 to register with the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses under the Idaho Contractor Registration Act, and the register is public and searchable online.

Where we work

Meridian first, then out across Ada County to Boise, Eagle, Kuna, Star, and Garden City, and west into Canyon County for Nampa, Caldwell, and Middleton. Deck construction is performed by independent registered contractors we connect you with.

Getting in touch

Call (208) 314-4914 or use the quote form. Tell us where the property is and what the yard needs, and a vetted local deck builder calls you back with a free quote.