Deck Builders of Maryville is a custom deck contractor serving Alcoa — the planned company town built for the aluminum works, and its own incorporated city with its own codes department. We design, permit and build wood and composite decks, railings, covered decks and repairs.
No pressure and no obligation. We respond the same day, confirm your address is in our Blount County service area, and set up a time to come look at the space.
New builds in wood and composite, custom multi-level layouts, covered decks and pergolas, railing systems, and repairs to decks worth saving.
Pressure-treated pine and cedar — the most affordable route to real outdoor space.
Learn more →Low-maintenance decking that resists fading, mold, insects and splintering.
Learn more →Multi-level layouts, picture-frame borders, built-in seating and integrated lighting.
Learn more →Design, permitting, footings, framing and finish — handled end to end.
Learn more →Roofs and pergolas that keep the space usable through heat and afternoon storms.
Learn more →Joist and post replacement, re-decking, ledger corrections, code upgrades.
Learn more →Alcoa is not part of Maryville, and on a deck project that distinction is the first thing that matters. The city was laid out in the late 1910s as a planned community for the aluminum works that gave it its name, and it has run as its own municipality ever since — with its own building and codes department. Your permit, your inspections and your setback questions go to the City of Alcoa, not to Blount County, even though the street grid runs continuously into Maryville and a neighbor four blocks away may answer to a different office entirely.
The city's geography shapes the work too. Alcoa sits along the US-129 corridor — Alcoa Highway — with McGhee Tyson Airport at its edge and Pellissippi Parkway feeding in from the north, so much of the developed land here is comparatively level ground on the valley floor rather than the steep foothill lots you hit further south toward the Smokies. Level ground means lower decks, shorter stair runs, and footings that are about bearing capacity rather than fighting a slope.
The trade-off is housing age. A good share of Alcoa's residential stock dates to the company-town era and the decades right after, and on a house of that vintage the band board a deck ledger would bolt into has had a long time to take on moisture. We check that framing before anything gets fastened to it, because a ledger is only as sound as the wall behind it.
Alcoa's codes department is a genuine advantage once you know to use it. Because the city permits and inspects its own residential work, the process is self-contained — but only if the submission goes to the right office. The most common avoidable problem we see on this side of the county is a homeowner or an out-of-area contractor filing with Blount County for an address that is actually inside Alcoa city limits, and discovering it at inspection. We confirm the governing jurisdiction for the specific address before quoting.
The two jobs we're asked for most in Alcoa are ground-level and low-profile decks, which suit the flatter valley-floor lots here, and ledger repairs on mid-century houses where an older deck was attached without proper flashing. The second one matters more than it sounds: water tracking behind an unflashed ledger rots the band board of the house itself, turning a deck problem into a structural one.
Covered decks are the other steady request, and Springbrook Park's tree canopy is a decent illustration of why — shade is the difference between a deck you use in July and one you look at. Where a lot has no mature trees, a roof or pergola does that job instead.
Whether you're off Alcoa Highway near the airport, over toward Springbrook Park, or on one of the older company-town streets closer to Maryville, we'll come measure your Alcoa project and give you an honest written quote at no cost.
Deck Builders of Maryville is a Maryville deck contractor working throughout Blount County. If you're not certain your address falls inside our service area, send it through the form and we'll confirm either way.
Alcoa is an incorporated city with its own building and codes department, so permits for properties inside Alcoa city limits are issued by the City of Alcoa rather than by Blount County. Because the Alcoa and Maryville street grids run together, we verify which jurisdiction governs your specific address before quoting, then handle the submission and inspection scheduling as part of the job.
Yes, and they are often the best candidates — a lot of Alcoa's company-town-era housing was built with nothing more than a stoop or a slab out back. The one thing we always check on a house of that age is the rim joist and band board where a ledger would attach. If that framing has taken on moisture over the decades it needs addressing first, because the ledger is only as sound as the wall behind it.
A straightforward single-level pressure-treated deck around 12 by 20 feet with no railing typically starts in the $4,000 to $12,000 range, depending on elevation, footing work and whether a new ledger is needed. Fully custom designs generally add roughly 25% to 35% over a basic build, and an elaborate composite deck with stairs, premium railing and a pergola can pass $25,000. We give a written price after a free on-site visit rather than quoting blind.
In most cases yes, and which office issues it depends on where the property sits. Addresses inside Maryville city limits permit through the City of Maryville, addresses in Alcoa through the City of Alcoa, and addresses in unincorporated Blount County through the county building and codes office. As a general rule a deck that attaches to the house, sits more than about 30 inches above grade, or exceeds roughly 200 square feet needs a permit and inspection. We confirm the requirement for your address and handle the permitting.
Most residential decks are finished in about one to two weeks once construction starts. The timeline depends on size, elevation, whether a pergola or covered roof is included, and how quickly permits and inspections move in your jurisdiction. Spring and early summer are the busiest booking months across Blount County, so autumn and winter projects usually get on the schedule sooner.
No. The on-site visit and the written estimate are both free and carry no obligation. Someone comes out, looks at the actual grade, access and any existing structure, talks through what you have in mind, and follows up with a written price. If the number lands above your budget we'll show you what adjusting size, material or railing would do to it.
Deck Builders of Maryville works across Blount County, Tennessee — from Maryville and Alcoa out to the communities along the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. Select any community for details on deck building in that area.