Know what matters. Plan decks clearly.
Follow the five phases that make decks work easier to describe, verify, approve, and document. Field conditions and requirements are still confirmed by the professional.
Trade know-how
Understand the job before it starts.
Deck work depends on whether the structure is being maintained, resurfaced, repaired, expanded, or rebuilt—and on what supports it. Use these five phases to describe the work clearly. The professional still verifies field conditions, requirements, and the final scope.
How this work starts
Details first; a visit when needed
Name the result
- Describe maintenance, repair, resurfacing, replacement, or new construction.
- Include approximate size, height, attachment, material, railings, and stairs.
Document what is visible
- Record visible rot, movement, loose rails, failed boards, ledger and footing areas that are safely visible.
- Also record drainage, access, property constraints, and photos.
Use the honest review path
- Surface maintenance may be details-first.
- Structural repair, hidden rot, ledger or footing work, major guard changes, additions, or new decks require a site and permit review.
Approve the written scope
- Confirm drawings and dimensions, framing and attachment, footings, decking, stairs and guards.
- Also confirm fasteners, finish, demolition, permit, inspection, cleanup, and exclusions.
Keep one project record
- Continue in Completa with the approved design, material and permit details.
- Also keep hidden-condition findings, inspection records, progress proof, and changes.
From request to accepted work
Know what happens at each decision.
You provide what can be observed. Completa organizes it into a project request. Whether that request can be estimated remotely depends on the facts, and a professional reviews the real project before any agreement is accepted.
01 · Scope
Build the scope from observable facts.
Record the address, requested work, measurements, safe photos, condition, access, timing, and anything still unknown.
02 · Estimate or field review
Estimate what is defined; review what is not.
Supported work with enough reliable detail can receive a scope-based estimate. Unresolved site facts require field review first.
03 · Choose and review
Choose a pro; the pro reviews.
Where matching is available, review the connection and decide whether to continue. The pro reviews the actual request before agreement.
04 · Accepted work
Accept only the reviewed work.
The reviewed scope, price, and terms both sides approve become the project record—not the unreviewed request by itself.
What field review means
A field review resolves facts a screen cannot safely confirm.
A professional checks site conditions that answers, photos, or remote measurements cannot establish. This protects both sides from pricing undefined work; it does not guarantee acceptance or a particular price, and Completa does not fill unknown scope with an invented number.
No submitted estimate becomes accepted work until a professional reviews the project and both sides agree to the scope, price, and terms.
Accuracy references
Official guidance supports the safety, permit, and inspection notes on this page.
Take the details with you
Continue the project in Completa.
The app asks the decks-specific questions and keeps photos, scope, approvals, milestones, and the project record together.
Plan before the project
Make the next decks decision clearly.
Use the relevant cost, permit, contractor-review, change-order, and estimating guidance without leaving the project-planning path.