When a commercial deck starts failing, somebody has to own the fix.
Detroit Deck Rebuild is a commercial deck rebuilding contractor serving metro Detroit. We rebuild apartment and condo balconies, exterior stairs, and restaurant and rooftop decks, with engineering where the loads demand it, permits everywhere, and a cost guide anyone can read before calling.
- Published cost guide
- Permits and inspections included
- Phased work, buildings stay occupied
- Documentation your file keeps
Inspection deadline or safety concern driving this? Call (313) 285-3323. A Detroit number, answered by the contractor.
What commercial deck rebuilding costs in metro Detroit.
Commercial deck rebuilding in the Detroit area runs $45 to $85 per square foot for a full structural rebuild that is engineered, permitted, and inspected, and apartment balcony reconstruction typically lands between $9,000 and $22,000 per balcony depending on size, framing condition, and access. Exterior stair towers run $8,000 to $18,000, and guard replacement alone prices at $90 to $160 per linear foot. Detroit Deck Rebuild is a commercial deck rebuilding contractor serving metro Detroit, and those figures come from the published cost guide rather than a number invented after a walkthrough. Restaurant and assembly decks are designed to the 100 pound per square foot live load the building code requires for crowds, quotes come off the published ranges, and the invoice matches the quote.
Metro Detroit’s commercial wood is fifty years old. The freeze-thaw never stopped.
The suburbs around Detroit built garden apartments and walkup complexes at enormous scale through the sixties and seventies, and hung wood balconies, stairs, and walkways on nearly all of them. That stock has now absorbed fifty Michigan winters. The restaurant districts have a different version of the same clock: Royal Oak and Ferndale run their seasons on patio and rooftop decks that carry crowds, which is the heaviest duty the code recognizes. In both worlds the aging is predictable, so an owner can plan for it or be surprised by it, and surprise is the expensive one.
Detroit Deck Rebuild does the structural half of that planning: balcony and stair reconstruction, hospitality deck rebuilds, and the condition reports that turn a building’s wood into a budget instead of an emergency.
Six kinds of commercial structure, one contractor.
Apartment balcony reconstruction
Balconies on 1960s to 80s buildings rebuilt from the ledger out: proper attachment, flashing, code guards, and phasing that keeps every unit occupied.
Exterior stairs and walkways
Walkup stair towers, landings, and second-floor walkways reframed to current code, with flagged buildings moved to the front of the schedule.
Restaurant and bar decks
Patio and rooftop decks built to assembly loads, 100 pounds per square foot, with guards a crowd can lean on. Off-season builds that never cost a warm weekend.
Condo association programs
Board-ready condition reports, per-balcony budget numbers for the reserve study, and phased construction that keeps the community uniform.
Plaza and amenity decks
Decks over occupied space are roofs with furniture. Membranes, drainage, and framing handled together, scoped from below before above.
Waterfront commercial decks
Lake St. Clair restaurants, marinas, and clubs get wet-service framing and stainless hardware, because the water eats standard connectors first.
The cost guide is public. Put real numbers in your budget first.
Per-square-foot rebuild ranges, per-balcony and per-stair-tower figures, guard and membrane line items, and what moves each number: it is all on the cost guide, written for the person who has to defend a budget to a board, an owner, or a lender. The quote comes off that page, and anything a walkdown changes gets said at the walkdown.
The metro, suburb by suburb, structure by structure.
Southfield aged a garden-apartment empire and Royal Oak runs its whole season on patio decks. Farmington Hills belongs to condo boards, and out on the Nautical Mile the water gets a vote. Each area page covers the structures that place actually owns and what the work costs there.
Tell us about the structure. We’ll bring the numbers.
Photos of the framing, the guards, or the flagged item speed everything up: text them to the same number you call, and the assessment comes back in writing.