Few places in Hillsborough County reward a good deck like Balm. Out here the evening view is open sky over pasture and tomato fields, the sunsets run unobstructed to the horizon, and lots are big enough that an outdoor living space can actually sprawl. Alpine Exteriors designs and builds decks across the Balm area that are engineered for the hard part nobody photographs: Florida sun, four months of daily rain, and the insects that eat unprotected wood.
Building for the Real Florida Outdoors
A deck in this climate faces conditions that would age a northern deck twice over. Ultraviolet exposure on a shadeless Balm lot fades and checks bare lumber within a couple of summers. The rainy season keeps framing damp for weeks at a stretch, inviting rot at every uncovered cut. Subterranean termites, a fact of life on rural land here, find untreated wood in contact with soil with unsettling speed. Even railings and stair stringers, the parts your family grabs and trusts, are typically the first components to fail on a deck built without these realities in mind.
Our construction details answer each threat directly. Framing is ground-contact-rated and isolated from soil, every joist gets protective flashing tape, hardware is hot-dipped or stainless, and ledger connections are flashed and bolted to standards that respect how hard wind loads a raised structure on open ground.