Local Deck Builder in Beaumont TX - Outdoor Living Done Right

The majority of homes in Beaumont were built between the 1940s and 1970s on concrete slab foundations - the standard construction method for a region with a high water table and heavy clay soil. Those slabs have been expanding and contracting with every rain cycle for decades. Southeast Texas clay - discussed in detail by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension as one of the most common sources of foundation movement in the state - swells when wet and shrinks in dry stretches, and Beaumont's 55-inch annual rainfall means this cycle never fully stops. Any deck attached to a home here needs to account for that movement in how the ledger board is fastened and how the footings are set.

Beaumont also sits in the path of Gulf Coast tropical storms and receives an average of more than 90 days above 90 degrees each year. Untreated or improperly finished wood exposed to this combination of heat, humidity, and periodic heavy rain will begin showing visible deterioration within a single season. Homeowners in Beaumont who have gone through the experience of Hurricane Harvey - which dropped more than 60 inches of rain on parts of Jefferson County in 2017 - understand this better than most, and they look for contractors who build with those conditions in mind from the start.

Beaumont is the largest city in the Beaumont-Port Arthur metro area, with a population of around 113,000 and a history rooted in the 1901 Spindletop oil discovery that launched the modern American petroleum industry. The city sits along the Neches River in Jefferson County, about 85 miles east of Houston on Interstate 10. ExxonMobil, DuPont, and other major industrial employers have maintained facilities in and around Beaumont for decades, giving the area a working-class homeownership culture where residents tend to stay in their homes and invest in upkeep. The Beaumont Botanical Gardens in Tyrrell Park and Ford Park, the city's largest entertainment complex, are community anchors that most long-term residents know well.

The housing stock in Beaumont spans a wide range: the oldest homes in Calder Place and the North End date to the early 1900s, while newer subdivisions on the city's western edge were built in the 1990s and 2000s. Hurricane Harvey hit Beaumont hard in 2017, flooding large portions of the city and triggering substantial home renovation activity in the years that followed. Nearby communities like Port Arthur to the south and Nederland in between share Beaumont's climate and soil conditions, and we serve all of them.