7 Questions for Hiring a Deck Contractor in Fairfax

A deck is a five-figure investment sitting outside in Virginia's freeze-thaw cycles for the next 20+ years. The contractor you hire matters more than the design you pick. Before signing anything, here are seven questions worth asking — and what a good answer sounds like.

Design Builders, a Virginia Class A licensed contractor (license #2705141736) operating since 2006, builds decks in Fairfax County, Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland through every month of the year — including the months most contractors treat as a dead zone. Winter construction has a reputation problem in this region, and it's mostly deserved: it's a reputation earned by companies still pouring concrete footings the traditional way.

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