Remodeling Contractor - Fredericksburg, VA
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At 33 years and counting, Virginia Decking & Remodeling LLC is considered by some to be the nation's premier Ipe and composite Design & Build company. With 1000s of happy customers nationwide, not only have we found a way to build Ipe wood and composite decks for half what others charge, but we recently started offering something no other deck firm in the nation has: A one time application that produces a LIFETIME MAINTENANCE-FREE COATING that can give you the sexiest pressure treated deck in town. No, really. See www.lifetime-coatings.com for resurfacing decks, resurfacing docks, and concrete repairs and resurfacing. See www.ipe-deck.com for all the latest technology on tropical hardwood Ipe decking and Ipe railings and how to finish the wood with a 20+ year finish called Super Shield. See www.composite-decks.com for the low-down on what composite works and which ones fail so badly that a national class action suit judge saw in favor of the angry homeowners! Also, when you visit www.lifetime-coatings.com you can read about how we kill the fungus that is destroying your deck from the top down and from the bottom up with StoneWood... an aerogel silica petrifying material that infuses the wood cells with silica (glass) thereby preventing water absorption and (more importantly) fungus from eating through the surface and into the wood. With one application, StoneWood will preserve and protect your deck underside against fungal decay for good. You can also read at www.lifetime-coatings.com about our MMA Concrete Repair & Resurfacing service that completely repairs and resurfaces old, spalling, pitted, and cracked concrete with a material 3 times stronger than concrete (same material bullet proof glass is made from). It is impervious to salt (which possibly damaged your concrete to begin with), acid, oil, gasoline, ice and water, and UV rays from the sun. Our MMA treatment will repair and resurface your old concrete driveway, garage, stoop, sidewalk, or pool deck for a FRACTION of the cost to demo, haul and re-pour it. True. And because it has fierce bonding strength and is 3 times stronger than concrete, properly applied it will not delaminate (peel or chip off) like all the other concrete skim coatings out there. Various colors and textures to choose from. Call or click today.
James C.
The experience was mixed. While the deck damage repair WAS done on schedule and price, be wary of the pricing and the payment schedule. Things to consider: (1) There is no FREE ESTIMATE. You are charged at least $850.00 for him to visit your property to review the work that is needed to be performed. That fee is added to your final bill. (2) His claims of STONEWOOD are suspect. His is extremely evasive when additional information is requested – referring you to the “internet”. When one does a web search on “STONEWOOD”, it goes his web site. He REFUSES to provide any information on that product, including an MSDS. His price for “STONEWOOD” is at least 100% times of that of what seems to be an equivalent product from Home Depot. He delivers that “STONEWOOD” product in an unmarked 2.5-gallon plastic container. When pressed on the STONEWOOD “lifetime warranty” he claims it’s with the manufacturer (which he refuses to provide any additional information AND one cannot find on a web search) warranty, not with him. (3) His “Deep Wood Fungus Killer” seems to be nothing more than a highly concentrated bleach solution. (4) He WILL NOT allow you to purchase your own supplies. He claims his “4 times retail” charge is needed to allow him to pay his subcontractors. (5) The payment schedule in his contact is biased toward him. He demands cash/check payment with every milestone the he defines. He does not accept credit card.
Address
PO Box 41157
Fredericksburg, VA 22404
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Sunningdale Meadows Concrete Stoop and Steps Repair and Resurfacing | Aug 2015 | Concrete stoop: Last coat dry in 1 hour! | $1k | Stafford, VA | |
Larry's Old Pressure Treated Deck Resurfaced Like NEW! | Sep 2013 | A large, wrap around pressure treated deck was full of splinters with chunks of wood missing from the decking. The railings were severely cracked and checked. Nails had popped up. In short, the homeowners' deck was a mess. The first thing we did was to replace wood that was decayed. We then recessed all the nail pops and tightened the railings and deck against the house and posts and beams. Our next step was to use a fungicide on the decking and railings to kill the fungus that had been eating the deck from the top down. Fungus secrets an enzyme which converts wood cellulose to wood sugar and this was what the fungus was eating. Fungus causes decks to get spongy with time until eventually homeowners are in danger of falling through. After killing the fungus, we pressure washed the deck clean and returned two days later (after it was completely dry) to apply two coats of our proprietary resurfacing treatment called Lifetime Coating. It is a crushed stone aggregate in water base acrylic that filled in the cracks (see before and after photos), encapsulated the splinters, locked down the nails, and leveled out the boards giving our customer a beautiful, new deck surface that is guaranteed by the manufacturer for life! Now this is REALLY interesting: If my customer had decided to have a deck company like us rip up his old, nasty decking and splintering railings and replace them with a composite decking and railing... the cost would have been about $45,000! On average today's customers who replace their decking with composite will pay THREE TIMES MORE than if we resurface it with Lifetime Coating. And most composites are only guaranteed by the manufacturer for 10 years. Our manufacturer guarantees our resurfacing product for LIFE. See Warranty for details and some limitations. | $16k | Spotsylvania, VA | |
Sunningdale Meadows Concrete Stoop and Steps Repair and Resurfacing | Aug 2015 | Concrete stoop: Last coat dry in 1 hour! | $1k | Stafford, VA |