Big Decks

🔥 JULY ONLY

Our 6-person sauna has arrived and is ready for delivery and installation.

For the rest of July, you can add one to your new BigDeck for our lowest sauna pricing of the year.

Offer applies with:
• OG BigDecks — 250 sq. ft. minimum
• Any other deck style — 300 sq. ft. minimum

If you’ve been thinking about creating a backyard you’ll actually use year-round, this is the month to do it.

Designed. Delivered. Installed.

DM us SAUNA to learn more or schedule a design consultation.

July offer only. Minimum deck sizes apply.

A 4x12 board is 11¼ inches wide and 3½ inches thick.

That's not a deck board. That's a floor.

Standard 5/4x6 decking runs 5½ inches wide and ¾ of an inch thick. Thin, busy, and full of seams. It photographs fine and walks like a pallet.

The OG 4x12 changes the whole read of a backyard. Fewer boards. Longer lines. A surface that feels like part of the house instead of something tacked onto it.

You feel it barefoot. You feel it under a table full of people. You feel it when a chair scrapes across and nothing flexes.

Scale is the design. The board sets it.

Real wood. Built big.

Most people price a cold plunge, then discover the drainage, the electrical, and the deck reinforcement were never in the number.

That tub you just ordered weighs over 3,000 pounds when filled with water. A standard deck frame built with basic pine isn't designed to hold a compact truck. Drop that load on a basic build and watch the framing sag over time.

Then there is the water itself. Cold water has to go somewhere when you drain, clean, or overflow the tub. A plunge built without engineered drainage ends up pooling directly under the deck, which accelerates rot and attracts Texas insects in the Austin heat.

Before you drop a standalone unit on your patio, make sure your framing and your plumbing can handle the reality of backyard wellness. We build these units with independent sub-structures and integrated access panels, planning the drainage route before the wood is even cut.

Real wood. Built once, built right.

A 16x20 Standard Deck goes up in three days for $10,200. A custom real-wood build on the same footprint can run three times that.

Here's what actually changes.

Standard is pressure-treated pine in our profile, 6, 8, or 10 inch boards, code framing, one pass with the floor sander, then your color. Solid platform. Flat price. No surprises. You'll stand on it Friday.

Custom is a different animal. Douglas fir, cedar, ipe, or thermally modified boards. Above-code framing that shrugs off Austin heat and Hill Country freezes. Engineered drainage. Board profile, finish, and integrated metalwork you actually chose. It reads as part of the house, not something screwed onto the back of it.

Both are built right. One is a surface. The other is architecture.

Pick honestly.

Real wood.

140 to 160 degrees. That's the surface temp on an unprotected Austin deck by early afternoon this week.

The wood isn't just hot. It's losing moisture, and the oils that hold it together are already leaving.

By fall, that shows up as checking, splitting, and fasteners that don't sit tight anymore. Composite doesn't save you either. It just cooks hotter and holds it longer.

Real wood can be fed. A penetrating oil now, while the boards are mid-cycle, puts back what July is pulling out. Wait until October and you're patching damage instead of preventing it.

The window is open right now.

Austin built. Real wood.

Nobody sees the three rounds of sanding before the finish goes on.

You see flat, clean cedar boards when the sun hits the backyard. Getting real wood to feel like flooring underfoot takes a floor sander, a handheld rotary, and a crew on their knees through a Texas afternoon.

Loud. Dusty. Done before the oil ever touches the wood.

Austin built. Real wood.

Dark composite decking hits 160°F on a July afternoon in Austin. That's the surface your bare feet are landing on.

The "low-maintenance" pitch usually skips the part where the boards sag, the fasteners fatigue, and the ledger slowly walks itself loose. Austin doesn't just heat a deck up. It cycles it. 40-degree daily swings pull every joint in two directions, every day, all summer.

Standard pressure-treated pine gives up early here. Five years in, most basic builds are already warping, splintering, and losing their grip on the hardware holding them together. UV and humidity strip the oils out faster than the marketing brochures admit.

The wood you pick on day one decides what your deck looks like in year ten. Real species, correct gap spacing, tight details, built for this climate on purpose.

Swipe through. Then look at your deck.

This is what a Tuesday evening looks like when the backyard is actually finished.

No project timeline hanging over your head. No "we'll fix that next weekend." Just a chair, a mug, a book, and cedar planks that have been waiting all day for you to sit down.

Golden hour does some of the heavy lifting here, we won't pretend otherwise. But the reddish-brown cedar, the solid railing you can lean on without thinking twice, and the room to actually stretch out? That's the deck doing its job.

We build real-wood decks in Austin for people who want to use them. Not stage them once for a photo and forget they exist. Morning coffee, evening wind-down, a dinner that runs long because nobody wants to go back inside.

If your backyard is still on the "someday" list, let's talk. Clear pricing, real cedar, and a deck built to hold up to a lot more Tuesdays.

📍 Austin, TX

We make sure you have a choice in the matter. ⚡️👌🏻🪵