How long has North Georgia Elite Decks been in business?

Since 2007, which makes 2026 our nineteenth year building in the North Georgia foothills. The company has been family owned that entire time, run from the same shop in Jasper, with the founder still walking most estimates personally.

What makes a home-builder background different for a deck?

Houses teach you that everything is a load path ending in soil, and that water finds every seam you did not detail. Decks fail at footings, ledger flashing and stairs far more often than at the boards you can see. A crew trained on houses treats those three as the actual project and the decking as the finish.

Are you a big company or a small crew?

Small, deliberately. Small enough that customers name individual people in their reviews, large enough to run engineered structures, permits and multi-week builds without subcontracting the work out. That size is the reason replies are fast and the owner is still reachable.

What areas do you actually build in?

More than thirty towns radiating out from Jasper, along the I-575, Highway 515 and GA-400 corridors. That covers Canton, Woodstock, Alpharetta, Cumming, Ellijay, Blue Ridge and the mountain communities between them. The areas we serve page lists every one.

Do you do more than decks?

Everything outside the back door that is structural. Screened and covered porches, railing systems, paver patios, retaining walls and outdoor living buildouts alongside the deck work. What we do not do is roofing, fencing or interior remodeling, because spreading that thin is how quality slips.

Where can I see proof rather than claims?

Three places, none of them written by us. Our 69 Google reviews at 4.9 stars, our published profile in Trex’s own installer directory, and the project gallery, which is entirely our own work rather than manufacturer stock photography.

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Jasper, GA · Building Since 2007

A Deck Building Company Founded by a Home Builder

Most deck crews learn decks. Ours learned houses first, then applied the same footings, load paths and code discipline to everything outside the back door. Nineteen years later that is still the whole difference.

TrexPro Platinum, top 1%

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How It Started

One Builder, One Standard, Since 2007

David did not come to decks from landscaping or from a franchise playbook. He came from building whole houses, where a mistake in a footing shows up as a crack in drywall two winters later and everyone knows whose fault it is.

When he founded North Georgia Elite Decks in Jasper in 2007, he brought the part of house building that most deck contractors never learn: that a structure is a chain of load paths from the roof to the soil, and the outdoor half of that chain gets treated as an afterthought almost everywhere.

The company stayed small and family owned on purpose. One crew, no rotating subcontractors, and the owner still on most estimates nineteen years in. Growth has come from neighbors pointing at each other’s back yards, which is a slower way to build a business and a much better way to keep a reputation.

Today that same standard covers decks, porches, railings and hardscape across the foothills, from Jasper out to Blue Ridge, Canton, Woodstock and the GA-400 corridor.

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Structural mindset. Footings, framing, load paths, stairs, code compliance. Decks are just houses that live outside.

DavidFounder, North Georgia Elite Decks

19years building in North Georgia, founded 2007

Top 1%of Trex installers nationwide hold Platinum

The Practical Difference

What a House Background Actually Changes on a Deck

This is not a slogan. Six specific places where a home builder does the work differently, and where deck failures usually start.

Footings sized to the load

Calculated from what sits above them, poured below frost depth, and inspected. Not a standard hole repeated across the yard.

Load paths carried to soil

Beam to post to footing, with the connection detailed at every step. Most deck failures are a load path that quietly stops somewhere.

Ledger flashing done properly

The single most common cause of catastrophic deck collapse in the country, and it is a roofing detail, not a decking one.

Stairs built to code rise

Consistent risers, proper stringer support and a graspable rail. Stairs are where inspectors look first and where most decks fail.

Permits pulled, not avoided

We design to the checklist before anything is submitted, which is why our projects pass inspection the first time.

Rot found and shown to you

When a teardown reveals bad framing, you see photographs and approve the fix. It never gets covered up to protect a quoted number.

An Honest Comparison

Deck Only Crew, or a Builder Who Also Builds Decks

Plenty of good deck-only companies exist. This is simply where the two approaches actually diverge, so you can decide which your project needs.

A typical deck only crew

Framing patterns repeated from job to job regardless of soil or slope

Roof tie-ins and flashing subcontracted out or improvised

Permits treated as a delay to be worked around

Rotating subcontractors, so nobody owns the finished result

Surprises priced as change orders after work starts

North Georgia Elite Decks

Every structure designed to its own site, soil and grade change

Roofs, flashing and ceilings handled in house as house carpentry

Drawings and permits prepared as part of the job, not an add-on

One crew from footing to final walkthrough, owner still involved

Structure inspected before quoting, so the number holds up

Checkable, Not Claimed

Credentials You Can Verify Yourself

Anyone can put a logo in a footer. Each of these is published somewhere outside our own website, and we would rather you went and looked.

TrexPro® Platinum

The top tier of Trex's contractor program, held by roughly the top 1% nationwide. Earned through install volume, factory training and satisfaction Trex audits itself, then re-verified on an ongoing basis.

What Platinum requires →

NADRA Member

The North American Deck and Railing Association, the trade body that sets safety and construction standards for the industry. Membership means keeping current with them rather than with whatever worked last decade.

Georgia Code Fluency

We build to the IRC with Georgia amendments and know how requirements differ across Pickens, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gilmer and Fulton counties. We publish that knowledge rather than keeping it as leverage.

Read the GA deck code guide →

Named in the Reviews

The People Who Show Up in Your Yard

Small enough that customers remember names, which is exactly why they appear in the reviews by name.

David

Founder

Home builder by background. Walks most estimates himself and makes the structural calls on every project.

Jordan

Project Manager

Runs the build schedule and the site. Reviewers name him repeatedly for keeping people informed at every stage.

William

Estimator

Often the first person out to the property, pricing the work and bringing design ideas homeowners had not considered.

Worth Saying Out Loud

What We Deliberately Do Not Do

A short list, because knowing where a contractor stops is usually more useful than another page about what they claim to offer.

Six things you will not get from us

Every one of these costs us work occasionally. We think that is the correct trade.

We do not sell you a rebuild when a repair will do. Reviews exist from people we talked out of spending money.

We do not build off templates. Every structure is drawn for its own site, slope and house.

We do not chase roofing, fencing or interior work. Outdoor structures only, which is why we are good at them.

We do not hand your project to rotating subs. One crew, start to finish, with the owner reachable throughout.

We do not quote a single number sight unseen. Ranges before the visit, an itemized figure after it.

We do not bury permit costs inside a square foot rate. Fees appear on their own line, every time.

About the Company

Questions About Who We Are

How long has North Georgia Elite Decks been in business?
Since 2007, which makes 2026 our nineteenth year building in the North Georgia foothills. The company has been family owned that entire time, run from the same shop in Jasper, with the founder still walking most estimates personally.
What makes a home-builder background different for a deck?
Houses teach you that everything is a load path ending in soil, and that water finds every seam you did not detail. Decks fail at footings, ledger flashing and stairs far more often than at the boards you can see. A crew trained on houses treats those three as the actual project and the decking as the finish.
Are you a big company or a small crew?
Small, deliberately. Small enough that customers name individual people in their reviews, large enough to run engineered structures, permits and multi-week builds without subcontracting the work out. That size is the reason replies are fast and the owner is still reachable.
What areas do you actually build in?
More than thirty towns radiating out from Jasper, along the I-575, Highway 515 and GA-400 corridors. That covers Canton, Woodstock, Alpharetta, Cumming, Ellijay, Blue Ridge and the mountain communities between them. The areas we serve page lists every one.
Do you do more than decks?
Everything outside the back door that is structural. Screened and covered porches, railing systems, paver patios, retaining walls and outdoor living buildouts alongside the deck work. What we do not do is roofing, fencing or interior remodeling, because spreading that thin is how quality slips.
Where can I see proof rather than claims?
Three places, none of them written by us. Our 69 Google reviews at 4.9 stars, our published profile in Trex’s own installer directory, and the project gallery, which is entirely our own work rather than manufacturer stock photography.

Nineteen Years In

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