Where We Build Decks Around Lewiston and Auburn

From Auburn out to the lakes, we build decks in seven towns west of Lewiston, from the mill streets of Mechanic Falls to camp lots on Tripp Pond, Thompson Lake and Pleasant Lake.

• Auburn, ME0 miAuburn's own monthly permit reports list deck rebuilds, deck replacements and even a swap of decking and railings, each one permitted by the city. Lake Auburn supplies the drinking water for both cities, and its watershed overlay bars digging that would wash sediment into the lake.Deck Builders in Auburn, ME
• Minot, ME5 miMinot's fee schedule gives decks a line of their own, and the town's permit application uses a 10x20 residential deck as its sample project. Houses sit scattered along rural town roads here, and the median one was built in 1994.Deck Builders in Minot, ME
• Mechanic Falls, ME9 miMechanic Falls is a mill town on the Little Androscoggin, which drops over falls right in the center of downtown, and much of its apartment growth came from big older downtown houses divided into units. The town's permit form carries a separate line for the deck, and its list of no-permit cosmetic work leaves decks off.Deck Builders in Mechanic Falls, ME
• Poland, ME9 miPoland's land use code prints its own frost line, 45 inches, and measures every water setback to the nearest part of a structure, decks, steps and railings included. Thompson Lake, Tripp Pond and the Upper, Middle and Lower Range Ponds all appear in the town's shoreland rules.Deck Builders in Poland, ME
• Oxford, ME14 miThompson Lake runs along Oxford's southern border, and the town's plan describes camps and year-round homes on the shores of Hogan and Whitney Ponds too. Oxford's permit application lists every required inspection, starting with the foundation rebar before any concrete is placed.Deck Builders in Oxford, ME
• Otisfield, ME16 miSummer cottages and camps line Pleasant Lake, Thompson Lake, Saturday Pond and Moose Pond, and the town's code office names decks among the new construction that needs a building permit. Work within 250 feet of the high-water mark takes a shoreland permit on top of it.Deck Builders in Otisfield, ME
• Paris, ME17 miParis Hill keeps a village of Federal and Greek Revival houses built mostly between 1800 and 1860, while South Paris grew around mills on the Little Androscoggin River. The town's building code ordinance doubles the permit fees on any project started before its permit.Deck Builders in Paris, ME

North of the two cities, we cover seven towns of farmhouses, capes and ranches, along with lake lots on Allen Pond, Sabattus Pond and Cochnewagon Lake.

• Greene, ME7 miOpen farm acreage and roomy rural lots fill much of Greene, and Allen Pond carries both camps and year-round homes. Greene's space and bulk table sets structures 100 feet back from a pond and 75 feet from other waters in most of its districts.Deck Builders in Greene, ME
• Wales, ME10 miFields and woods still cover close to nine-tenths of Wales by its town plan, and seasonal houses on small lots sit along its side of Sabattus Pond. The town's permit form asks for the deck or porch size on a line of its own.Deck Builders in Wales, ME
• Hebron, ME12 miHebron is a rural town of homes scattered along its main roads, such as Route 119 and Marshall Pond Road, with very few seasonal places. The shore of Marshall Pond itself has stayed mostly undeveloped, by the town's own plan.Deck Builders in Hebron, ME
• Turner, ME11 miTurner Village, Turner Center and North Turner are the town's three village areas, with farms spread along the roads between them. Turner runs a third-party inspector program, so whoever holds a building permit hires the inspector from a list the town provides.Deck Builders in Turner, ME
• Monmouth, ME13 miMonmouth's town plan counts parts of five lakes inside its lines, and Cochnewagon Lake has houses around almost its whole shore. The town's building permit form lists a deck as a project type of its own.Deck Builders in Monmouth, ME
• Leeds, ME15 miLeeds holds new structures 150 feet back from the Androscoggin and Dead Rivers under its shoreland ordinance. The town beach, Stinchfield Beach, sits on the northern shore of Androscoggin Lake.Deck Builders in Leeds, ME
• Buckfield, ME15 miBuckfield's building permit ordinance counts decks, steps and landings as structures, and it keeps every structure 25 feet from the road's right-of-way and from each lot line. Older village houses gather where the two branches of the Nezinscot River join.Deck Builders in Buckfield, ME

We build decks as far east as Litchfield and Bowdoinham and as far south as Topsham, with Sabattus, Durham, Lisbon and Bowdoin in between.

• Sabattus, ME6 miSabattus posts its own deck handout for homeowners, and it calls for the ledger to be bolted with half-inch bolts no more than 16 inches apart. Inside the shoreland zone around Sabattus Pond and the Sabattus River, the town's ordinance treats a deck attached to a house as part of the house.Deck Builders in Sabattus, ME
• Durham, ME10 miDurham's ordinance names Runaround Pond as the only great pond in town, and the Androscoggin River runs along about 10 miles of its northern line. The town's permit form asks for the footing size and footing specs of a deck or porch.Deck Builders in Durham, ME
• Lisbon, ME11 miThe Androscoggin runs through Lisbon's villages, and the Sabattus River meets it between Lisbon Center and Lisbon Falls, where mill housing grew up. The town's permit form has its staff circle any flood zone, shoreland zone or Route 196 corridor that a lot falls in.Deck Builders in Lisbon, ME
• Bowdoin, ME13 miBowdoin's shoreland ordinance sends accessory structures to the code officer in its Limited Residential district and to the planning board in Resource Protection. Caesar Pond, out in the country west of the Litchfield Road, sits inside a state wildlife management area of about 500 acres.Deck Builders in Bowdoin, ME
• Litchfield, ME14 miLitchfield's camps and lake homes sit along Pleasant Pond, its corner of Cobbossee Lake and the chain of five Tacoma Lakes. On the shore, the town now asks for photos of the work before it starts and again within 30 days of finishing.Deck Builders in Litchfield, ME
• Topsham, ME17 miTopsham says in writing that a deck supported by columns counts as a building and needs a permit unless it is on the town's exemption list. Its deck permit form holds the work to the 2021 International Residential Code as Maine amended it.Deck Builders in Topsham, ME
• Bowdoinham, ME17 miBowdoinham sits on the western side of Merrymeeting Bay, with the Cathance and Abagadasset Rivers running through town toward it. The village grew from Cathance Landing, once a spot for wharves that shipped out lumber.Deck Builders in Bowdoinham, ME