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Flat Ground Between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel

Flat river plain ground is the least forgiving place to have a deck that does not drain, because no slope is doing any of the work for you. Pico Rivera is built on exactly that, a rich alluvial plain between the Rio Hondo and the San Gabriel River. If the surface does not carry water off deliberately, it sits there, and standing water finds every weakness a sloped deck would have shed.

That is why the first thing we look at on a Pico Rivera deck is fall and drainage, not the coating. Recoating a surface that ponds just resets the clock on the same failure.

The city has 17,359 housing units at roughly 2,088 per square mile, and nearly 98 percent are occupied. Most of this property is lived in, so the repair works around people rather than an empty building, and access matters as much as the scope.

Around 69 percent of occupied units are owner occupied, which puts the majority of the work on single family property: rear decks, patio covers, entry stairs and second floor balconies. Owners tend to have watched the problem develop for a while before calling.

Where a deck has held water long enough, the plywood and the joist tops go before anything shows on the surface. We probe and open up rather than pricing from what a coating looks like, then rebuild, correct the fall and detail the wall junction properly.

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