Frost & Frame · Deck builders · Quarrytown & Setter's Bend · Since 2015
A deck is judged by what is underneath it.
No photograph can show you a footing, so this page leads with the numbers instead: every Frost & Frame deck sits on footings at the published frost depth, on a frame you could park a car on, under boards chosen for the yard rather than the showroom.
48-inch footings, every post · 25-year structure warranty, transferable · Lic. #BC-77120 · 214 decks since 2015
What we do
Three decisions, made in this order
The footing before the beauty
A deck is a soil problem before it is a carpentry problem. We dig to the county's published frost line — 48 inches here — and pour, before a single board is chosen. It is the part of the deck you will never photograph and the reason it stays level.
A frame built like furniture
Twelve-inch centres, blocking at every rail post, crowns up on every joist, ledgers on structural screws. We build the frame to the same tolerance as the rail that caps it — the expensive hour is the one under the boards.
Boards chosen for the yard
Composite where the sun cooks, cedar where the evenings are long, ipe where the budget means fifty years. Quoted side by side on one drawing, because the honest comparison is the whole sales pitch.
Quarrytown · Setter's Bend · 2024–2026
Work from the ledger
Proof
Signed at handover, still true
They were the only outfit that talked about dirt before boards. Two winters, one hundred and ten inches of snow, and the level still shows the same reading the day they left — I checked, because the last deck I owned moved.
The quote was a paragraph of numbers and the invoice was the same paragraph. My son-in-law is a framer and he crawled underneath at Thanksgiving just to look — he came out and asked for their card.
I asked for the ipe and Evan talked me into the cedar with the savings in writing. That is a builder, not a salesperson. The oil goes on every second spring and the deck is the best-looking thing on the street.
Reasonable questions
Why no photographs of crews at the top of the page?
Because a deck site visit buys structure, not atmosphere. Every photograph on this page is a finished deck we built, and none of them shows the part that decides whether it is still level — which is why the numbers lead instead.
What does a Frost & Frame deck cost?
Composite lands between $56 and $74 per square foot installed, cedar $50 to $66, ipe from $92. Rails, stairs and slope move the number, which is why the fixed quote follows the site visit instead of the phone call.
Can you build to a drawing we already have?
Gladly — we price it as drawn, then tell you in writing what we would change and why. If the drawing is sound we say so and build it exactly; the second opinion is free either way.
How do you handle a sloped yard?
With footings and a level deck, not a level yard. Stepped platforms, long-span joists and rail heights that follow code on the drop side — the slope is a design opportunity we price on the first visit, never a surprise on the fourth week.
Tell us about the ground.
One visit, one drawing, one fixed number — and the first thing we do in your yard is dig where the deck will not be, to see what the frost will be doing under it. Evenings and Saturdays included.
Frost & Frame Deck Builders · Lic. #BC-77120 · 25-year structure warranty · frame@frostandframe.example · 9 Setter Row, Quarrytown