A railroad town on US 85
La Salle sits on US 85 south of Greeley at about 4,680 feet, a town of roughly 2,300 on flat ground near the South Platte. The core is a small grid of early-1900s homes in Old Town, with some 1970s–2000s infill and the Nantes area, and rural acreage spreading west of the highway. Lots are small, homes are older, and the sky is wide open — no mature shade on most south-facing yards, and nothing to break a west wind.
Permits through Town Hall, inspections by ProCode
The Town of LaSalle handles its own permits. The Town Hall front office at 128 N 2nd Street processes every application, and ProCode Inc. does the inspections under contract — extension 1 for inspection requests, extension 0 for questions. Applications can also be filed through the Community Core portal. The town enforces the 2018 International Codes, and fees are valuation-based plus a 2% use tax on materials. We prepare the plans, file, and run inspections through final. Acreage outside town limits files with Weld County, and we confirm the jurisdiction from your parcel first.
Plains engineering on a small lot
La Salle does not publish separate design criteria, so the regional Weld County values apply: 30 psf ground snow, 115 mph three-second-gust wind, and a 30-inch frost depth. Wind sizes any pergola or patio cover for uplift — roof connectors and post bases chosen so the structure stays put in a spring gale. Footings go below frost, drilled into river-valley clay that heaves a shallow pad every year.
Hail and sun decide the surface. Weld County is hail country, and a south-facing deck at this elevation takes UV that fails a wood finish in two seasons. Capped composite takes both and asks for a hose instead of a stain.
What we build in La Salle
On the Old Town grid, the work is fitting a genuinely useful deck inside a small setback and matching it to an older house — often a modest composite deck with a partial cover on the sunny side and new railing sized to the scale of the home. On the acreage west of US 85, projects grow: a 300–400 square foot deck or larger with a solid cover for July heat. We are a Trex, TimberTech, and Deckorators dealer.
Repair or replace
La Salle has a lot 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. We quote the repair against the cost of replacement so you can compare the two directly.
Sixty-five minutes up US 85
La Salle is about sixty-five minutes from our Centennial shop, straight up US 85 past Gilcrest and short of Evans. 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.