I know I’m gonna get yelled at here.
I only do decks occasionally and I’m coming up with numbers that look high to me.
What I’m looking for is a range in cost using pressure treated decking and rails and including the drawing and permitting.
The first deck is about 5′ off the ground, a 12′ x 12′ square ,bolted to the house on one side, with one 3′ wide stair.
The other will use the same material, 3′ off the ground, with a 4′ wide stair. This deck will be about 150 sq’ and an odd shape to avoid an A/C unit and a basement stairwell. One side will be supported on a retaining wall if the County oks it. (will they?)
The only thing that might raise the cost beyond the norm is that the rails will die into capped posts. I hate those mitered corners.
Thanks,
Mike
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Doing 2 decks this year.
One 10 ft by 6 ft so samller thqn your examples, but with railing only on one side as 1 side against he building, one side 6 ft wide stairs, and 4th side <30" high.
About 1-1/2 day labor, the 1/2 day doing layout and pouring 4 cu ft each concrete piers.
Total cost about $60 PT lumber (I take the culls at the big box at 75% off, 95 out of 100 can be aniled flat), otherwise PT lumber about $240.
- $20 hardware (sesmic anchors required here)
- galv nails about $15 worth
-$10 concrete (80# broken bags are only $1 ea at big box), otherwise, $40)
So, say labor plus $105 if you stockpile materials when they are available, otherwise $300+railings.
I used salvaged 'free' welded iron railings (often seen on CL), weld 2 ea overlapping 5" spacing rails discarded for <4" spacing to meet current code
So, at $50/hr, $600 plus $300, plus railing plus profit is over one grand or about $15 to $20 sq ft.
Add another $200 for permit/fees if ya cannot get by without one, +$100 sales tax here.
Deck prices
Thanks,
But I can't make any money at that square foot price. I'm not culling, not reusing, and i will have to spend more than a day each estimating, drawing and permitting these decks.
Do you have any idea of an average range?
Mike
you may find some pricing data in the archives,
Bob S. (ProDek) was the decking guru in the old days, but he did high end stuff, likely around $40 sq ft 5 years ago.