There was a wood deck out back, sitting on posts over a sloping yard. The boards and railing had weathered pale and rough. The stairs ran straight down along the house — narrow, one handrail, open risers you could see straight through, landing on bare dirt.

Nothing got patched. The whole thing came down.

The surprise that day wasn’t the missing deck. It was the stretch of house behind it, exposed for the first time in years. That wall had been hidden the whole time, and a house might only give you that opening once.

So the first job wasn’t the deck — it was the wall. New house wrap while it was open, siding back over it. Once the new deck went on, nobody was reaching that again.

The rest followed the same logic: everything you can’t get to later goes first. Frame, boards, railing.

The stairs changed the most. Closed risers now, a handrail on each side, and a hard pad at the bottom so nobody steps into mud. On the deck itself the boards are composite, clipped down with the fasteners hidden underneath, and the white railing with black balusters keeps the view through to the trees open.

There’s room up there now. The grill sits in the corner and the middle stays clear — the old one couldn’t do that.

Same house. The backyard just gets used differently.

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