Deck Building in Jacksonville & Northeast Florida

It depends on the size and scope of the work, so we price every project individually after seeing it in person. As a concrete reference point, a small bathroom of roughly 7x5 typically runs $10,000 to $14,000, and a master bathroom typically runs $17,000 to $35,000, with materials included in both. Your written proposal arrives within 48 hours of the on-site consultation and lays out the full scope and price, so you are never comparing guesses. Estimates and consultations are free.

We provide them. Through our partnership with Floor & Decor you work directly with an in-store designer to choose colours, tile, and finishes, and your selections go onto a form under our account. From there we purchase, pick up, and deliver everything to the job site. You get to make the fun decisions without managing orders, deliveries, or returns.

Yes. GIL pulls and handles all permits for your project — that is part of what you are hiring a licensed contractor to do, and it is included. Our licensed plumbing and electrical subcontractors pull their own trade permits under our master permit. You do not need to contact the building department or schedule an inspection yourself.

We give you a schedule in the written proposal and we finish on or ahead of it. A small bathroom is usually about 7 days including permitting; a master bathroom is typically 2 to 3 weeks. Larger work such as an addition or new construction runs longer and is scheduled specifically for your project. We complete 30 to 40 projects a year, so our timelines come from experience rather than optimism.

Cesar Perdomo, and he manages customers exclusively. This is the structural difference at GIL: our business partner runs the job sites, so Cesar is never pulled onto a roof or under a house when you call. At most contracting companies one person does both jobs, which is exactly why homeowners cannot reach their contractor mid-project. Someone here is always reachable by phone — no run-arounds and no no-shows.

In most cases yes, and we confirm it and pull it for you. Requirements differ across Duval, Clay, St. Johns, and Nassau counties, and a deck that attaches to the house is treated more seriously than a freestanding platform because it becomes part of the structure. Rather than quote you a threshold that would be wrong in one of those four jurisdictions, we check what applies to your specific parcel before design work begins. You do not need to contact the building department or schedule an inspection yourself.

Through the framing, the connections, and the hardware — the parts nobody sees once the boards go down. A deck here has to handle sustained humidity, hard sun, driving rain, and wind uplift on an attached structure, and every one of those is resisted below the walking surface rather than on it. Where a deck ties into the house, that connection is engineered and inspected, not improvised. The exact requirements are set by your county and the engineering for your site, which we confirm as part of the permit package.

It comes down to how much maintenance you want to do and what you want to spend up front. Pressure-treated lumber is the most affordable option and the most demanding to maintain, since it needs periodic cleaning and re-sealing to stay looking right. Composite costs more initially and asks very little of you afterwards, which is why it is the most common choice for coastal exposure. Hardwood sits between them on cost and rewards maintenance with an appearance neither of the others matches. We walk you through the tradeoffs at the consultation rather than steering you at a product.

Yes, particularly in Ponte Vedra and Fernandina Beach. Salt air is an additional form of exposure on top of the sun and humidity everyone in Northeast Florida deals with, and it is hardest on the parts of a deck that are least convenient to replace — fasteners, connectors, and framing. Closer to the coast we lean toward materials and hardware that tolerate that environment, and toward finishes that will not need constant attention to stay presentable.

Usually, and that connection is the most important detail in the whole build. An attached deck transfers its load into the existing structure, so the ledger connection and its flashing have to be right for both structural and moisture reasons — a poorly flashed ledger rots the wall behind it quietly for years. Where attaching is not the right answer for your house, a freestanding structure alongside it does the same job without touching the building envelope. We tell you which one your house calls for at the consultation.