Designed, priced and built in Utah
Know what your deck costs before anyone comes out to measure.
Answer a few questions and get a real range in about a minute — not a rule of thumb. It is priced off today’s lumber sheet, the ground snow load at your address, and hours this crew has actually timed.
Free, no phone call, and nothing to install.
Today's lumber prices
The same supplier sheet the crew orders from. When it goes up, your quote goes up with it — and when it doesn't, nobody pads it.
The snow load at your address
Utah's ground snow load changes street by street. Yours sizes the footings, the joists and the beam, before anyone pours concrete.
Hours somebody timed
Framing, decking, stairs — each one measured on real jobs, with the crew size that actually does it. Not a percentage of the materials.
How it works
Four questions and a price you can use.
Tell us the shape
Two sides is enough to start. If you want it exact, draw the deck straight onto a satellite photo of your own house — or upload the sketch you already drew on paper and it reads the measurements off it.
Pick your boards
Brand, collection, then colour, with the real samples in front of you. The price moves as you choose, so you can see what the upgrade actually costs before you commit to it.
Add what you want
Stairs and railing are priced on their own, not buried in the total. Leave the stairs out if you step onto a patio. Put them back and watch what changes.
Get your proposal
A link you can open, read, send to whoever else decides, and approve. It breaks the job into parts, so the number has somewhere to come from.
What’s inside
The work a contractor does in a week, done while you sit there.
Every board on the list
Not a lump sum for lumber. The ledger, the joists, the beam, the posts, the boards you walk on and the fascia that closes the edge — each one with how many and how long.
Sized to the code, not to habit
Joist spans, beam sizes and footing diameters come out of the prescriptive tables for your snow load and your soil. When a deck falls outside them, it says so instead of guessing.
Your deck on your house
Draw it on the satellite image of your own lot, with the shape it really has. An L-shaped deck gets costed as an L, not as the rectangle around it.
Colour you can actually see
The composite and PVC lines the company stocks, with the colour swatches, and what each one does to the total.
The offcuts, counted
Lumber comes in fixed lengths, so a ten-foot piece costs you twelve. That difference is in the quote instead of being discovered on site.
One number, five parts
Footings, frame, floor, railing, stairs. You see what each one costs, which is the only way to decide what to change.
What you get
A proposal that explains itself, part by part.
Most quotes are one number and a signature line. Yours arrives split into the things a deck is made of, each with what it covers and what it costs.
- Footings and posts
- Holes dug below the frost line with a post set in each one. It is what keeps the deck where you put it through a Utah winter.
- The frame
- A ledger bolted to the house, a beam across the outside edge and joists every 16 inches. Nobody sees it once the boards go down, and it is what carries everything that stands on the deck. The crew time for digging the holes, setting the posts and hanging the railing is counted here, not on those lines.
- The deck floor
- The boards you walk on and look at, in the line you picked, cut so the seams fall on a joist.
- Railing
- Posts and rails around every open side. Once the floor sits more than 30 inches above the ground the code stops treating it as optional.
- Stairs down to the yard
- Stringers cut to your exact height and treads in the same board as the floor, so the way down doesn't look like an afterthought.
- Getting the job done
- Drawing the plans, pulling the permit, tearing out what was there and hauling it away, the runs to the supplier, and leaving the yard the way we found it. It is on the estimate because it is on the job — every deck needs it and somebody pays for it either way.
Become a partner
You build decks. This is what we run on.
Intake, quoting, job costing, material take-off and crew hours — one system, built for this trade and nothing else. Here is what the inside looks like.
Not for sale yet — we are opening it to a handful of contractors first. If you run a decking company and want to see it on your own numbers, write to partners@outdoorlivingcreations.com.
Questions
The ones you’re about to have.
Is the price real, or is it a teaser?
It is the real one. It comes off the same price sheet and the same labour rates the company uses to cost the job internally — the number you see is the number the estimator sees. What can still move it is what nobody has measured yet: if your two sides turn out to be different on site, the quote changes with them, and you will see exactly which line moved.
Does it cost anything, or commit me to anything?
No and no. You get a range, a breakdown and a link. Nothing is ordered and nobody is dispatched until you approve the proposal.
What if I don't know my measurements?
Two rough sides are enough for a range. From there you can draw the deck on a satellite photo of your own house, or upload the sketch you drew on paper — it reads the numbers off it. Each step makes the price tighter.
Can I change my mind about the boards or the railing?
That is the point of doing it this way. Change the colour, drop the stairs, swap the railing, and the total follows along. You are not asking anyone for a revised quote, you are just looking at a different one.
Who actually builds it?
Outdoor Living Creations does — the same crew whose timed hours are in the quote. The system is how the company prices and plans your job, not a marketplace that hands you off to a stranger.
Do you handle the permit and the inspection?
Yes, and it is a line in the proposal rather than a surprise. Plans, the permit, tear-out and haul-away are priced in the open, because every deck needs them and somebody pays for them either way.
I run a decking company. Can I use this?
That is what the partner section above is about. It is not on sale yet — we are opening it to a few contractors first, on their own price sheets and their own labour rates.
Your deck already has a price. Go and see it.
About a minute, no phone call, and you keep the proposal whatever you decide.
Start your quote