Backyard Makeover

New Deck & Screened Porch Alpharetta, GA

Before

The Deck That Came Before the Pool

The old deck and screened porch had been fine on their own, a rust-red two-level setup with a straight run of stairs down to the yard.

Then the client added a pool, and the stairs landed right where the pool needed to go. That’s the part people don’t plan for when they book the pool company first: the deck was built for a yard that didn’t have a pool in it yet, and now it did.

After

Down to the Roof, Then Back Up

We took out the deck completely, along with the porch walls, but left the roof framing exactly where it was. Believe it or not, that roof up top is original.

Everything under it is new: a rebuilt porch with fresh walls and a tongue-and-groove pine ceiling, a new 331 square foot Trex Transcend deck, and stairs relocated to a spot that actually works with the pool instead of dropping straight into it.

The Two Areas

The Porch

Same roof as before, but the walls, ceiling, and ceiling finish are all new. The tongue-and-groove pine gives it a look you don’t usually get on something rebuilt this fast.

The Deck

New stairs with a landing, moved to line up with the pool layout instead of fighting it. The whole thing sits on engineered wide-span beams, which is what let us open up the underside without a forest of extra posts getting in the way of the patio below.

The Details

Keeping the Space Underneath Dry

With a full deck sitting over a patio, the space below only works if water isn’t dripping through it onto the furniture. We ran a premium watertight drainage system under the full 518 square feet, so the patio underneath stays usable and dry, then finished the underdeck ceiling in tongue-and-groove to match the porch above it rather than leaving it as bare framing.

What Went Into It

Component	Product
Deck	Trex Transcend, 331 sq. ft., engineered wide-span beams
Stairs	New stairs with landing, relocated for the pool layout
Porch	Complete remodel, walls and ceiling, 187 sq. ft.
Underdeck	Watertight drainage system with tongue-and-groove finish, 518 sq. ft.

Built in 2019 for $90,000. The same scope would run closer to $154,000 today. The outdoor kitchen shown wasn’t part of our work; that went in alongside the pool, on its own timeline.

When the Pool Shows Up After the Deck Does

A lot of clients add a pool to a yard that already has a deck, and find out the two don’t line up the way they expected. If that’s where you’re at, tell us what the pool company gave you to work with and we’ll figure out what the deck needs to do differently.

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