Marysville Deck Contractor | Alpine Exteriors

Marysville Backyards Are Built for Decks

Marysville is a backyard town. From the established neighborhoods around Jennings Park and the older blocks off State Avenue to the newer developments spreading north through Smokey Point, most homes here come with a genuine yard, and the wave of houses built from the 1970s through the 2000s came with something else: builder-grade cedar decks that are now ten to forty years past their best. If your deck was there when you bought the house, there is a fair chance it is reaching the end. Alpine Exteriors replaces and builds decks across Marysville, and this is some of the most satisfying work we do, because the before-and-after is enormous.

Snohomish County weather is the reason those original decks age the way they do. Months of rain off Puget Sound and the Ebey Slough estuary keep wood wet, sun-starved north sides grow moss and algae, and decades of freeze-thaw cycles work fasteners loose and split unprotected board ends. The framing under many older Marysville decks was built before joist flashing tape existed, so the structure has been absorbing water at every hardware connection since the day it was finished.

Replace It Once, Correctly

Our approach is to build the deck your house should have had. That starts below the surface: properly sized concrete footings, pressure-treated framing with protective tape on every joist and beam, corrosion-resistant structural hardware, and a ledger connection flashed so the deck never feeds water into the wall of your home. It is invisible work, and it is why our decks come with a 25-year workmanship warranty while the deck we are tearing off barely made twenty.

On the surface, most Marysville homeowners today choose capped composite, and we agree with them for this climate. During your free on-site estimate we will bring samples and lay out the practical differences:

• Capped composite decking needs a rinse instead of a refinish, and ignores the algae our wet season grows on bare wood.
• Cedar still wins on upfront cost and natural feel, if you will honestly keep up the yearly maintenance.
• Aluminum and composite railing systems end the wobbly, splintering rail problem permanently.
• Covered sections or pergolas stretch deck season on both ends, which in western Washington is worth real money.

A Contractor Sized for the Job

Alpine Exteriors has spent 25 years on Northwest exteriors and completed more than 2,000 projects, so a Marysville deck build runs like a process rather than an experiment: permits handled with the city, inspections scheduled, materials delivered once, and a crew that shows up when the schedule says it will. Yards, fences, and sprinkler lines get protected, and the old deck leaves in our trailer, not in a pile by your fence.

If your boards are cupped and gray, if you have started stepping around soft spots, or if the yard behind your house has always deserved better than a concrete pad and a picnic table, have us out. We will measure, talk through what you actually want the space to do, and hand you a firm, free estimate with no pressure attached. Summer evenings here are too good to spend looking at a deck you avoid walking on.