Cedar stair leading up onto a low deck where a covered hot tub sits behind black-baluster railings and louvered cedar privacy screens, beside a tan lap-sided house

Deck Building

Decks for Worthing, from town lots to open acreage

Worthing, South Dakota

Owner-led decks for Worthing's town lots and the open acreages around it, built by a contractor from nearby Harrisburg.

5.0 across 25 Google reviews · Licensed & insured · BBB Accredited, rated A · TimberTech PRO Gold contractor

Worthing doesn't have a contractor on every corner. It's a small town just off I-29 where most trades drive in from somewhere else, so the hiring question is blunt: who shows up, and who stands behind the work after the trailer leaves. The decks here split the same way the town does. Newer houses in town tend to carry the small builder-grade landing that came with the place, while older homes and the acreages around town have porches and decks that have taken decades of South Dakota winters and show it.

On a rebuild the question is always how much of what is there can stay. Footings and posts sometimes can. A ledger with water behind it cannot, and that is the one that decides whether you are looking at a resurfacing job or starting over from the ground.

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Frost-line footings on open ground

New deck posts bearing on round poured concrete pier footings, fresh rim beam above

Around Worthing a lot of backyards open straight onto farm ground, and a deck with nothing to break the wind lives a harder life than one tucked into a sheltered subdivision. The wind out here is a design input: hardware and fastening picked for gusts that get a running start, railing framing stiffened against them, board gapping that accounts for lumber drying fast in sun and wind. Footings still go below the frost line like every deck we build; frost doesn't care about the view. An exposed site is simply where cut corners show up first.

Ledger flashing, porch rebuilds, and repairs worth doing

Metal flashing lapped over a treated deck ledger against the house wall, house wrap above

The most expensive deck failure isn't in the deck; it's where the deck attaches to the house. A ledger that was never flashed lets water sit against the rim joist year after year, and by the time it shows inside, the repair has grown past carpentry. On older Worthing homes and farmhouse porches, that connection is the first thing we check: pull the trim, look at the flashing, find out what the rim actually looks like before promising anything. Rebuilding a porch or re-hanging a deck correctly is honest repair work we quote on its own merits.

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Charcoal lap-sided house with a new unstained wood deck and black metal balusters, a straight stair down to a colored concrete patio, and deck posts standing in a river-rock bed with shrubs — Elevated deck on a charcoal house — black balusters, a straight stair to the patio, posts set in a rock bed.

Rim joist set and fastened off, and the deck boards starting to go down over the joists.
New cedar boards and black balusters, looking out over the yard.
Elevated deck on a split-level — the stair lands on the patio below, posts set in a rock bed.

5.0

Twenty-four reviews. Every one of them five stars.

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Highly recommend Hols & Co. if you are looking for someone to build your deck. The whole team was excellent to work with. They were professional, respectful and communicative. They were very efficient when they were on site and kept out property clean while they worked. Solid craftmanship and the finished product is exactly what we were envisioning. We would definitely hire this crew again for future projects.
Carrie Janssen C. · July 2026 · Deck build
Our new cedar deck, built by Hols and Co, is fantastic! We were consistently impressed by their professionalism and great communication from start to finish. They listened to our needs, offered helpful suggestions, and kept us updated regularly. The quality of the construction is excellent. We highly recommend them to anyone wanting a beautiful, well-built deck.
Leonard · August 2025 · Cedar deck
The team was great. The quality of work is fantastic. I saw their ad on social media and took a chance and contacted them. So glad I did! Wanted my back deck replaced and they did a beautiful job. Even worked Saturday because the wood for the deck didn't show up on time. Looking forward to having them back for my next project!
Laura · July 2026 · Deck replacement

Fair questions, straight answers.

Do you build decks in Worthing, or only in the bigger towns?

We build them in Worthing. The shop is in Harrisburg, which puts most Worthing addresses about fifteen minutes away, so small jobs are as schedulable as big ones; a deck repair or a porch rebuild doesn't get bumped for being out of town, because it isn't. Like every project, it starts with an in-person walkthrough and a written estimate.

We're on an acreage outside Worthing. Does that change the deck build?

The structure doesn't change: footings below the frost line and framing sized for snow load are the standard on every build. What changes is the paperwork and the site. Rural parcels around Worthing typically permit through Lincoln County rather than the town, which we handle as part of the job, and an exposed site gets extra attention on fastening and railing stiffness, because prairie wind works on an open deck harder than a sheltered one.