Deck Construction in Ludlow, KY

Ludlow (ZIP 41016) is a narrow river town platted in the 1800s. The lots are slim, the houses are close, and on a lot of these streets one driveway runs between two of them and serves both.

That strip is usually owned by one property with a recorded right for the other to use it. Which of those you are makes a real difference to a deck. Where you own it, the ground is yours and the neighbor's right to pass over it still has to be kept clear, so nothing structural narrows it. Where you only have the right to use it, the ground belongs to them and the deck stays off it entirely. We establish which arrangement your deed describes before anything is drawn, because on a lot this narrow the driveway is often the only route to the back, and it belongs on the drawing from the start.

Once that is known these lots build well. The yards run deep behind the houses, so a deck that gives up width and takes depth ends up bigger than the frontage suggests. The stair is the piece to place carefully, because on a lot served by one shared strip the walk through is the only way anything reaches the back, and a flight landing in the middle of it turns a route into an obstacle course. We put it at the far end and keep the line from the street to the yard clear from end to end.