Georgia Cost GuideHow much does it cost to build a deck in Georgia?
New deck in Georgia: typically $12,000 to $19,000+, the middle half of the figures posted by 5 Georgia deck builders, collected November 2026.
You want an outdoor space off the back of the house and are starting to price it. Here is what Georgia builders publish for a new deck before the boards are chosen, and what makes one deck cost more than another.
What it costs to build a deck in Georgia
We checked 179 Georgia deck builder websites.
New deck cost
$12,000 to $19,000+
Prices from 5 Georgia deck builders
This is a typical range, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job. The dot marks the middle price, and a + means some businesses charge more.
What the job involves
Building a deck starts below ground. The builder lays out the deck, digs and pours footings, sets posts and beams, and either fastens a ledger board to the house or frames the deck to stand on its own. Joists go on next, then the decking boards, the stairs and the railings.
The new deck range above comes from estimates that price a whole deck without naming the decking material. The composite deck and wood deck pages split the same kind of project by the boards used, so look there once you know which you want.
A deck is open to the sky. Putting a roof over it turns the project into a covered or screened porch, which takes more framing and has its own range.
What's usually included
- Footings, posts and the frame
- Decking boards across the frame
- Railings along the open edges
- Stairs down to the yard
What moves the price
- Footings and soil
- Every post sits on a footing, and rocky ground, hard clay or a slope makes footings slower to dig and pour, which raises the labor.
- Attached or freestanding
- A deck fastened to the house needs a sound rim board and flashing at the ledger. A freestanding deck needs another row of posts and a beam along the house side instead, so ask which way the builder plans it and why.
- Getting materials in
- A fenced backyard, a steep side yard or no driveway close by means carrying lumber and concrete by hand, which adds labor.
- Lumber prices that move
- Framing lumber and boards change in price, so a deck quote may only hold for a set period before it is repriced.
- A door onto the deck
- If the house has no door where the deck will be, cutting one into the wall is carpentry beyond the deck itself and is usually priced on top.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each deck builder before you compare prices:
- What size, height and decking material is this price based on?
- Will the deck fasten to the house, and if so, how will you flash the ledger board?
- How many footings will you pour, and how deep will they go?
- Are the drawings, any permit and the inspections included in this price?
- How long will this quote hold if lumber prices change?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia deck builders and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 179 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected November 2026.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check decks and porches prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| New deck | 5 (all cost guides) |
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