Deck Builders of Maryville builds custom wood and composite decks for Hillsdale and the surrounding Blount County communities — new builds, replacements and additions, with straight advice about which decking material actually suits your situation.
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 →Hillsdale is one of the residential communities in the Maryville area of Blount County, and the deck question homeowners here open with is almost always the same one: wood or composite? There is a real answer, but it depends on your circumstances rather than on one material being better than the other.
The local climate is what makes the question sharp. East Tennessee runs meaningfully wetter than the national average, our summers are humid, and at Maryville's elevation — around 900 feet, with the ground rising from there toward the Smokies — winters deliver real freeze-thaw cycling rather than a single hard freeze. That combination is hard on exposed wood. Moisture gets into checks and splits, then freezes and widens them.
None of which makes wood the wrong answer. It makes wood a material with a maintenance schedule attached, and the honest conversation is about whether you want that schedule. We'd rather have that conversation at the estimate than have you discover it three summers in.
Pressure-treated pine is the most affordable way to get the deck you want, and a well-built one lasts a long time here. The cost is recurring: cleaning, and re-sealing or re-staining on a regular cycle to stay ahead of our humidity and rainfall. Skip that cycle for a few years and a good deck goes gray and starts splintering. Cedar sits in the middle — better looking, more naturally rot-resistant, still on a maintenance schedule.
Composite reverses the equation. It costs meaningfully more per square foot up front and removes nearly all of the recurring work, resisting moisture, mold, insects and UV fading without annual refinishing. What you are actually buying is your weekends. The decision rule we give people: if the lowest opening number matters most, or you may not be in the house long, build a good wood deck. If you plan to stay and re-staining sounds like a chore you'll resent, composite earns its premium.
The most common project here is a straight replacement — an aging pressure-treated deck coming out and composite going down in its place, often on the same footprint. When the frame underneath is sound, that job is far cheaper than people expect, because the labour is mostly in the substructure that already exists.
The second is the deck that's never been sealed. Those usually still have life in them; what they need is an honest inspection before anyone spends money on a rebuild that may not be warranted.
Whether you're closer in toward Maryville, out along the US-321 corridor toward Townsend, or somewhere between, we'll come measure your Hillsdale project and give you an honest written quote at no cost.
Deck Builders of Maryville is a our Maryville deck team 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.
More often than in drier parts of the country. Our combination of above-average rainfall, high summer humidity and real winter freeze-thaw cycling is hard on exposed wood, so a pressure-treated deck here needs cleaning and re-sealing or re-staining on a regular cycle rather than once a decade. Decks with heavy sun exposure or poor drainage need it sooner. We give you a realistic schedule for your specific deck at handover.
Often yes, and it is one of the better-value projects available. If the joists, beams and posts are sound we strip the old boards, repair and correct anything that needs it underneath, and lay new composite on the existing structure. Because most of the labour and material in a deck is the substructure you already own, this comes in well below a full rebuild.
Decks go up year-round here and the off-season has real advantages. Spring and early summer are when everyone calls, so lead times stretch. Autumn and winter generally mean a faster start, and the work itself is unaffected — footings and framing go in fine in cold weather. The one thing that shifts is staining or sealing a new wood deck, which wants dry conditions and moderate temperatures.
Ledger attachment and flashing. The ledger fastens the deck to the house and carries an enormous share of the load. Fastened with the wrong hardware or left unflashed, it both risks structural failure and channels water into the band board of the house itself — turning a deck problem into a house problem. It's also invisible once the deck is finished, which is exactly why it gets skipped.
Footings need to bear below the local frost line so seasonal freeze-thaw cycling can't lift them, and they need to be sized for the load each post actually carries. Both the required depth and the inspection process are set by the jurisdiction governing your address, so we confirm the current requirement for your location rather than working from a rule of thumb. The footing inspection is part of the permitted process.
Yes. Cut-offs, fasteners and packaging are removed, and we run a magnet sweep for dropped screws and nails before we leave — which matters more than it sounds if you have kids, pets or a lawnmower. We walk the finished deck with you, confirm you're satisfied, and go over care for the material you chose.
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.