Deck Maintenance & Care

Every deck has one corner working harder than the rest of the structure combined: the grill zone. It takes the […]

A deck’s surface is a recording instrument. Every pattern on it — the pale river running door to stairs, the

Search for deck winterizing advice and you will be told to prepare for a winter Austin does not have: months

If deck ownership came with a single mandatory habit, it would be this one: the fastener walk — a five-minute

Walk any deck at its five-year mark and the surface tells you how it was furnished before it tells you

Austin’s storms age decks on two clocks, and owners tend to watch only one of them. The fast clock is

Every shaded Austin deck eventually grows something, and the something has a geography: the north corner, the tree-covered end, the

If Austin deck care has a championship season, it is fall. The furnace finally stands down, the boards dry to

Summer is the paradox season for an Austin deck: it is the stretch the whole structure exists for — the

Composite ownership reduces deck care to essentially one skill, so it is worth doing that one skill properly: this is