Deck Restoration in Marlboro, NJ
Floor and the Stair Run | The Run Quoted on Its Own Line | Free Estimates
A deck raised a full story is the same job as any other on the floor, and a different job on the way down.
A photo from the yard looking back at the deck, with the stairs in frame.
The stair run is reached from the ground rather than from the deck, it dries on its own schedule, and the bottom of it lives somewhere different from the top. On a house with the back door well above the yard, that is a real part of the work and not a detail at the end of it.
Call or text (732) 718-6268 and tell us roughly how high the deck sits.
The Spring Look
The Spring Check Misses the Part That Had the Worst Winter
Marlboro puts out a spring clean-up reminder, and what it tells residents to check is fences, siding, and roofs. Sensible, and a list of things you can see standing up.
The part of a deck that has had the hardest winter is not on it. A stair run spends the cold months in the one place on the whole structure nearest the ground, and the bottom two or three steps take everything that comes with that: splash off the path, snow pushed off the deck and left to sit, wet leaves packed into the back of each tread, and meltwater that has nowhere to go. By the time the spring look happens, that end of the run has been wet more or less continuously since November.
So when you are out there looking, go to the bottom of the steps and work up instead of starting at the top. That is the order the weather used.
Why the Stairs Get Their Own Line
One Flight, Two Different Sets of Conditions
The top of a run and the bottom of a run are not doing the same thing. The top is out in the open with the deck, dries when the deck dries, and takes sun on the treads. The bottom sits in whatever the ground gives it, which on most properties means shade for part of the day, splash when it rains, and a landing that stays damp long after the floorboards have gone dry.
That matters because stain goes onto dry wood or it does not hold. On a long run the floor can be ready while the bottom three steps are not, and the honest answer is to wait for the slowest part instead of staining around it. It is also why the stair run gets its own line on a quote: different access, different staging, different drying time, sometimes a different day.
And it is worked from somewhere else
The access part is simpler than it sounds and it is why the photograph helps. A deck floor is worked standing on it. A run of stairs is worked from the ground alongside, and on a deck raised a full story there is a lot more of it, sitting above a strip of the house wall that nothing else gets near. If that wall is also due for a wash, that strip is easiest to reach while the staging is already there.
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Two Customers
From a Google review (Kelly Parks, 2023): On working with Angelo.
“Always a joy working with Angelo! He keeps things clean and has the best customer service of any power washing company in the area.”
Kelly Parks, Google review
Read this review on Google →From a Google review (Stephanie Marie, 2023): On the standard of the work.
“The owner Angelo never fails to put his best work out there. I swear by this company and would definitely recommend to anyone who needs power washing or more!”
Stephanie Marie, Google review
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Where Our Part Stops
The Finish Is Ours. Some of What Is Under It Is Not.
On the finish, the stairs go before the floor does, and that part is ours: cleaned, brightened, dried, sanded where the grain has come up, and stained with the rest of the deck. What is underneath the treads is a different trade, and it is worth being plain about which is which, because a stair run is also where a deck's structure is easiest to look at and easiest to ignore.
On the stair run itself, these are the three places to look, and none of them is the part you walk on.
Springiness underfoot, dark staining, splitting at a notch, or a fastener that has backed out are all things to mention when we come, and we will tell you what we see. Two things outside the stair run matter more than any of it for safety: the connection where the deck meets the house, and the guard rails. Have those looked at by somebody qualified to assess them, and the stair frame with them. Structural repair is a carpenter's job and not something we take on, and the same goes for foundations and footings. Boards and treads are different: those we repair and replace, agreed with you first and listed on your quote.
Worth knowing before you book
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Where We Start on a Raised Deck
At the bottom of the stairs, looking up. That end has had the longest wet season and it is where the finish and the frame are both easiest to read, so it narrows the two things that move a quote: how much of the run needs work, and whether anything under it needs somebody else. Send the photo from the yard with the stairs in frame, and tell us roughly how high the deck sits.
Serving Marlboro, Morganville, and Robertsville. Deck work runs March to Thanksgiving.