Greeley's south side, on its own terms
Evans is a home-rule city of about 22,000 on Greeley's southern edge, where the South Platte bends past at roughly 4,700 feet. The housing is mostly 1970s–2000s single-family ranches and two-stories on modest, flat lots — Ashcroft Heights, Grapevine Hollow, the streets around Riverside Park, and the older 37th Street corridor of Old Town Evans — with newer subdivisions like Tuscany filling in west of US 85. It is a working town with a lot of first-generation wood decks reaching the end of their run.
That is most of our work here: replacing a deck that was built in the 1980s or 1990s to a lighter standard, or building the first real one on a house that only ever had a concrete stoop.
Permits: the Evans Building Division, not Greeley's
Evans runs its own Building Division at 1100 37th Street, separate from the Greeley counter next door and from the county. Applications go through the CitizenServe online portal, and the division works to the 2018 I-Codes with the 2023 NEC. We prepare the plans, file through CitizenServe, and manage every inspection through final. Parcels outside city limits file with Weld County, and we confirm the jurisdiction from your address before drawing anything.
River-valley ground, plains weather
Evans does not publish its own design criteria, so the regional Weld County values govern: 30 psf ground snow, 115 mph wind, and 30-inch frost depth. Wind matters more than snow here — a pergola or patio cover is engineered for uplift, with footings drilled below frost into river-valley clay that moves every spring. The surface question is decided by hail and sun: Weld County is hail country, and south-facing UV fails a wood finish in a couple of seasons, which is why capped composite is the default — a hose instead of a stain.
What we build in Evans
The common project is a 300–400 square foot composite deck on a flat lot, often with a covered section on the west or south side so it is usable in a July evening. On the older ranches we frequently pair a re-deck with new railing, because the original wood two-by verticals are the first thing that fails and the first thing an inspector flags. We are a Trex, TimberTech, and Deckorators dealer, and everything carries our two-year workmanship warranty.
Repair versus replace
Evans has a deep stock of 1970s–1990s decks, and the right answer is different house to house. We inspect the ledger, posts, footings, and hardware before quoting. Sound framing gets a re-deck at $20–$35 per square foot — new surface, new railing, same bones. A failed ledger or footings above frost get a replacement plan built to current code.
Seventy minutes, planned for
Evans is about seventy minutes from our Centennial shop, straight up US 85 past La Salle, and we block northern Weld projects together so crews work consecutive days instead of commuting for half-days.
Run the cost calculator for a planning range, then tell us what you are planning.