A small town on the open plains
Kersey sits on US 34 east of Greeley at about 4,620 feet, a farm town of roughly 1,800 people founded in 1908. The core is a compact grid of modest early-to-mid-1900s homes around Old Town and Centennial Park; a few 1990s–2010s subdivisions sit at the edges, and beyond the town line it is large rural lots and the adjacent Hill-n-Park area. Nothing breaks the wind here, and nothing shades a south-facing yard.
Two permit counters
Inside town limits, the Town of Kersey Building Department at Town Hall processes permits, with SAFEbuilt handling inspections through CommunityCore. The town has adopted the 2024 International Building and Residential Codes and publishes its own Decks Guide. Hill-n-Park and the rural parcels outside the line are unincorporated Weld County, so those file with the county Building Department in Greeley. We confirm which applies from your parcel, prepare one clean packet, and manage inspections through final.
Wind first, then frost
Kersey does not publish its own design criteria, so the regional Weld County values govern: 30 psf ground snow, 115 mph three-second-gust wind, and a 30-inch frost depth. On these plains, wind is the structural number. A pergola or patio cover is engineered for uplift, with post bases and roof connectors sized to hold in a spring gale rather than picked from a catalog. Footings are drilled below frost into clay that heaves a shallow pad every year.
Then the sun and the hail. A south-facing deck at this elevation takes UV that fails a wood finish in two seasons, and Weld County is hail country. Both are the argument for capped composite, which takes the impact and the sun and asks for a hose instead of a stain.
What we build in Kersey
On the grid, the typical project is a modest composite deck sized to the house and the setback, often with new railing because the original wood verticals are the first thing to fail. On the acreages, it is a 300–400 square foot deck or larger with a solid cover so it is usable in July heat and March wind. We price the cover as its own line so you can see exactly what the shade costs. We are a Trex, TimberTech, and Deckorators dealer.
Repair or replace
Kersey has plenty of decks built decades ago to a lighter standard. We inspect the ledger, posts, footings, and hardware before quoting. Sound framing gets a re-deck at $20–$35 per square foot; a failed ledger or footings above frost get a replacement plan built to the 2024 code the town now enforces. The findings go to you in writing, with photos.
Eighty minutes, planned for
Kersey is about eighty minutes from our Centennial shop, east of our Greeley and Evans work. We block northern Weld projects together so a crew is on site for consecutive days rather than commuting for half-days.
Run the cost calculator for a planning range, then tell us what you are planning.