Draw your deck
Step one of three
Estimate
This is a starting figure built from typical Edmonton rates, not a quote, and nobody stands behind it. Its job is to tell you whether you are looking at a fifteen thousand dollar deck or a forty thousand dollar one before you start phoning people. It is deliberately left off the request for quote you send out. A builder who sees your number quotes your number.
What makes up that number
What makes up that number
Notes on this design
Building code
What the building code says about this deck
Counts
The counts that fall out of the drawing
This is not a materials list and it is not trying to be one. It is the handful of numbers anyone can read straight off the geometry. Joist size, beam size and footing size all need a span table and a look at your soil, so they stay with the builder where they belong.
Save and send
Every change saves itself, so there is nothing to lose and no warning box when you leave. The design is saved in this browser on this device only. It does not go anywhere, it is not sent to us, and clearing your browser data will clear it.
Two things worth knowing before you go further
A ramp is longer than people expect
The barrier free standard is 1:12: a ramp runs 12 times as long as the deck is high. A deck 30 in up needs 30 ft of ramp plus landings. That is why the drawing folds it back or runs it along the deck instead of marching it across the lawn.
The expensive mistakes are invisible
Footings below frost, and flashing over the board that bolts the deck to your house. Get either wrong and you are not repairing a deck, you are repairing a house. Both are questions on the list you hand the builder.