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As a deck builder in Grover Beach, we build, repair and stain decks for homes all over town.

Santa Maria Deck Builders cleans and stains weathered decks, builds new ones and fixes the ones that wobble, for homes in Grover Beach.

Whether your deck needs a cleaning and fresh stain, a repair, a full replacement or a brand-new build, we handle it.

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Two-story wood-sided home with a freshly stained wood deck and railing above a green lawn

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When a Grover Beach deck needs a permit

Attached or freestanding: why it matters for your deck

You're weighing a low platform out in the yard against a deck right off the back door, and you're not sure the city sees them the same way.

In Grover Beach, only a small, low, freestanding deck goes without a city building permit; one attached to the house needs a permit at any height. Lots near the ocean can bring a coastal permit into it as well.

We check how your deck will meet the house and what applies to your lot, then build it new or clean and stain the one already there.

Grover Beach follows a city rule for decks, and some lots have a second set of rules to check.

In Grover Beach, a deck needs a city building permit unless it is small, low and freestanding: 200 square feet or less, no more than 30 inches off the ground at any point, not attached to the house, and not serving the door the code requires as the way out of the house. An attached deck needs one at any height.

Near the ocean, a deck can also need a coastal development permit, and we check what applies.

Small old-style wooden train station beside railroad tracks on a sunny day

Beach-named streets and a station that went to Oceano

Grover Beach's founder named its streets for popular beaches of his day and wanted a train station; the railroad built it in Oceano instead, and Grover Beach waited a long time for one of its own. A developer once sold Grover Beach as the home of the average man.

It's a town with its own story, and you can still read some of it in the street names.

Deck work we do for Grover Beach homes

Every kind of deck work we do is open to Grover Beach homes. Cleaning and staining a weathered wood deck is a good place to start if your deck is sound but tired.

New pressure-treated wood deck with railing and steps down to a green lawn behind a single-story stucco home

Deck Building

New decks from bare ground: footings, frame, boards, stairs and railings, in wood or composite, plus new railings and stairs on decks already there.

a new deck built to the city's rules

Four steps from estimate to finished deck

  1. Send the estimate form

    Tell us your town, the work you want and anything you know about the deck.

  2. We look at the deck or the yard

    We look at the frame, the footings and the space, and check what permit rules apply.

  3. You get a free estimate

    A clear price for the work, in wood or composite where that's a choice.

  4. We do the work

    Footings, frame, boards, stairs, railing, stain or cover, whatever the job is.

Nearby towns we work in

We build, repair and stain decks in these towns too.

ZIP code we cover in Grover Beach: 93433

Is your Grover Beach deck due for some work?

Send the estimate form at the top of this page with the work you have in mind. Estimates are free.

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