TheLarchmontSnohomish County.
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TheLarchmontSnohomish County.
(206) 735-1286Get a quote
Custom Composite and Cedar Decks, Built to Last and Priced to Move in Lynnwood and across Snohomish County.
Free quoteComposite deck buildLooking for deck builder in Lynnwood, WA? Larchmont is a registered Lynnwood deck contractor handling deck builder, deck installation, deck contractor, and cost to build a deck for homeowners across Lynnwood and Snohomish County. One crew, a written warranty, and a free on-site quote, Since 2024.
Every deck builder job in Lynnwood has to answer the local ground and weather. Here is what we build for.
Dig a post hole almost anywhere between 164th and 196th and a couple of feet down you hit hardpan, a packed layer rain can't soak through, so from October to spring the water just sits on top of it. Around here that standing wet, more than any freeze, is what leans fences and tips cheap footings. We set posts and pour footings deep enough to bear below the soggy layer.
Whole streets off 168th and around Alderwood Manor went up within a few years of each other, ramblers and split-levels still wearing the cedar or hardboard lap they were born with. North walls hold moss and shed paint first, and trim goes soft wherever a blocked gutter kept it wet. We fix what's letting water at the wall, then make the outside match.
The blocks near Scriber Lake and Hall Lake carry protected strips around the water, what the permit office calls a wetland buffer, and those strips can decide where a fence or a deck legally sits. It's a measuring job, not a dealbreaker. We confirm the setback with the city before anything gets drawn, so the plan we quote is the plan that gets built.
Here's what a deck build covers, all of it priced before the first footing goes in.
Composite & cedar decksComposite deck
Composite & cedar decksWraparound and stairs
Composite & cedar decksRailing at dusk
Composite & cedar decksMulti-level with stairsRepresentative photos of the work we do.
Lynnwood issues its own permits through City Development and Business Services. If your project needs one, we file it and handle the inspection.
You won't see star ratings here yet. We put our first roofs on in 2024, and renting fake praise is a bad way to start, so judge the four terms below; each one checks out before you ever call.
The people who price the job are the people who dry it out. Nobody else touches it.
It's a section of your contract, in plain print, handed over before you sign anything.
The quote is the final number. Anything that would change it goes through you, in writing, before it happens.
#LARCHBL744BK on the Washington L&I contractor registry, with the bond and the insurance behind it. Verify us before we're ever in your driveway.
Composite costs more the day it goes in and asks for almost nothing after. Cedar is cheaper up front, feels like real wood because it is, and wants a wash and fresh stain every couple of years to stay that way. We build both, and once we've seen how much sun and shade your yard gets, we'll tell you which one we'd put on our own house.
Size, height off the ground, and railing do most of it. In the current market composite lands between $60 and $100 a square foot installed and cedar between $40 and $65, but those are market ranges, not a bid on your deck. The full breakdown lives in what a deck costs around Snohomish County, and the design visit turns it into three real numbers for your own ground.
Under 30 inches off the ground at the lowest point of the yard, usually no. Over that line, yes, and a roof over the deck or a walkout underneath changes the answer too. When yours needs one we pull it, handle the paperwork, and meet the inspector, so you don't burn a day off waiting at a counter.
Water, mostly. A packed layer under the topsoil keeps rain from soaking away, so winter water sits right where a shallow post lives, and wet dirt slowly lets go of anything that was never set right. Ours go deep, in concrete, and they stay put.
The shaded wall never really dries out between October and May, so moss gets a foothold and old cedar or hardboard lap sheds its paint there first. We find what's keeping the wall wet, fix that, then re-side or repaint so the work holds.
The same crew and the same written warranty in the towns next door.
Tell us about your deck project in Lynnwood. A photo gets an answer back fast, or leave your number and a human calls, usually the same day.
Expect a call at the number you left, usually within one business day. Whoever dials was probably on a ladder when your form came in.