A lakeside grid under the Tenmile Range
Frisco is the walkable one: a historic Main Street of 1880s miners' cabins and mid-century homes laid out on a grid at 9,097 feet, condos running toward the marina at Lakepoint and the Peninsula, and hillside homes in Frisco Heights, Frisco Terrace, and Bills Ranch climbing toward the Tenmile Range. The south exposure is sunny, but winters run past 100 inches of snow — the design brief for everything we build here.
Permits through CBCS, sign-off through Planning
Frisco dissolved its in-house Building Division in August 2024 and now contracts plan review and inspections to Comprehensive Building Code Services, CBCS. Decks require a building permit and a planning sign-off from the Frisco Planning Division on zoning and setbacks, and applications, fees, and inspection requests run through the CommunityCore portal. Electrical permits are the exception: those come from the Summit County Building Inspection Department, so deck lighting or a hot tub circuit means a second counter.
Frisco sits in Summit Fire & EMS territory, and the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code — Class 2 hardening with ignition-resistant deck surfaces — governs county permits applied for after May 4, 2026. We confirm the town's adoption status with CBCS on every project rather than guessing. The Summit County page explains the county-wide rules.
Eighty pounds per square foot
Frisco adopted the 2024 ICC codes and keeps its structural values in Town Code Chapter 65-3. Summit County's matrix lists Frisco Heights and Frisco Terrace at 80 psf roof snow load, with a 40-inch frost depth and 115 mph design wind, and we confirm your address with CBCS before we engineer. Every covered deck or patio cover here gets sized to that number: deeper beams, closer posts, footings that resist snow pressing down and wind lifting up. Our guide to how much snow a deck can hold walks through why 80 psf changes the structure so much.
What we build on Main Street and above it
On the historic grid, the work is usually a modest deck on a small lot that has to look right next to an 1880s cabin — we keep the profile low and the railing simple. In Frisco Heights and Bills Ranch it is elevated walkouts with the view doing the talking, and often a covered section so the deck works in shoulder season. Either way the surface is capped composite, built for altitude UV and freeze-thaw, and code-aligned where the ignition-resistant rule applies.
Repair or replace
Frisco has decks from every era since the 1880s, and a lot of the mid-century and 1970s ones were framed to lighter snow assumptions than the town uses today. We inspect first and answer plainly: sound framing earns a repair or re-deck, and a tired frame gets a replacement built to current numbers. We photograph what we find and show you before we quote.
An hour and forty-five minutes, scheduled in blocks
From our shop in Centennial, Frisco is about an hour and forty-five minutes via I-70 and the Eisenhower Tunnel, so we schedule mountain work in blocks and the crew stays on site for consecutive days; for second-home owners we coordinate with your property manager for access, approvals, and photo updates. Dillon, Silverthorne, and Breckenridge run on the same block calendar.
Run the cost calculator for a planning range, then tell us what you are planning.