A good deck adds a room to your home without adding walls. Master Construction is a deck builder serving all of Ventura County, designing, building, and repairing decks, balconies, and railing systems in wood, composite, and steel. Family owned since 1994, our licensed crews (Lic. #1027281) build outdoor structures that handle coastal weather, pass inspection, and hold up to decades of barbecues.
Built for the Coast, Not the Catalog
Salt air, morning fog, and hard afternoon sun destroy decks that were built from a generic plan. We choose materials and fasteners rated for coastal exposure, ventilate and flash properly where the deck meets the house, and seal or finish surfaces for our climate. That is why our decks age gracefully while others gray, warp, and rot.
Decks are won or lost in the framing. Footings get sized for the load and poured on undisturbed soil. The ledger is through bolted to the structure and flashed top and back, never nailed and never left bare. Joist tops get flashing tape so water cannot sit in fastener holes and rot the frame from inside. Composite goes down on hidden fasteners, wood gets stainless screws near the coast, and rail posts are blocked and through bolted until they do not move.
Our Deck Building Process
From sketch to first sunset dinner:
- Design. Layout, materials, railing style, and lighting planned around how you will use the space.
- Engineering and permits. Structural calcs and city permits handled for you.
- Foundation and framing. Footings poured and framing built to code with proper hardware.
- Decking and railing. Surfaces and railings installed clean, straight, and solid.
- Finish. Sealing, staining, lighting, and a final walkthrough together.
SB 326 Balcony Inspections and Repairs
California's balcony laws, SB 326 for condo associations and SB 721 for apartment buildings, put real deadlines on balcony inspections and repairs, and rotted framing hides under surfaces that look fine. We inspect, document, and rebuild balconies and elevated walkways for homeowners, HOAs, and property managers, replacing compromised framing and waterproofing so the structure is safe and compliant.
Scale is familiar territory. In multi building communities in Ventura and Oxnard, dozens of balconies often share the same failed waterproofing detail, so we sequence the work building by building and residents keep access the whole time. Salt air speeds up the rot clock near the beach, which is why coastal balconies fail at the post bases and ledgers first. One license covers the inspection paperwork, the repair scope, and the finished work.
Decks in the city of Ventura carry salt air and SB 326 obligations alike. Our decks in Ventura page covers both.
- Custom deck design & build
- Composite & wood decking
- Balcony repair & rebuild
- SB326 & SB721 balcony compliance
- Railing systems & cable rail
- Deck resurfacing
- Waterproofing & flashing
- Stairs & structural framing
Proudly serving Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Ojai, Port Hueneme, Somis, and Calabasas, plus all of Ventura & Los Angeles Counties.