Terms and Conditions
These terms govern every visit to the Deck Builders Waterville website, from reading about footings to preparing an estimate request. A deck we build for you runs under the contract we both sign, and nothing here changes that contract.
Deck prices shown here are averages pulled from many quotes and meant for planning, and estimates cost nothing and oblige nobody. Under Maine law, home construction priced above $3,000 must be put in writing and signed by the homeowner and the builder alike, with at most a third of the price due up front.
In force from November 4, 2026, the date of the last update.
Anyone using this website agrees to these terms by using it. If we build a deck for you, the contract we both sign controls that job, and these terms do not alter it.
Who We Are
Deck Builders Waterville builds and replaces decks for homeowners in Waterville, Maine, and 21 nearby towns, four of them over the line in Waldo County. On this page, "we", "us" and "our" mean Deck Builders Waterville, and "you" means the person reading the site.
Age Limit
Only adults may use this website, so using it confirms you are 18 or older.
Using the Site Fairly
Read the site for what it teaches about decks, and use its forms to describe your property and the deck you are planning. Keep what you enter truthful and about yourself, and do nothing to disrupt, overload or break into the site.
What Our Price Averages Mean
Our per-square-foot figures and project floors are averages of quotes gathered across central Maine, published as a budgeting aid. No figure here is a bid, an offer or the price of your deck.
Your own price is set at the visit, and the things that move it most, heaviest first, are a ramp, the number of stairs, whether the site already has footings worth keeping, how many shapes and levels the layout has, and how high the deck sits. The decking and rail you pick, and whatever an old deck hides until its boards come up, change the figure as well.
Estimate Requests
An estimate costs you nothing and binds neither side. A request reaches us only when you send the email our form prepares, write to us yourself or call, and nothing becomes binding until a contract carries both our signatures.
We can say no to a request from beyond our 22 towns, or to work we do not take on: porches with walls and a roof, sunrooms, patios and hardscaping, pools, pergolas, roofs, siding, windows, kitchens, baths and additions.
Maine's Contract and Deposit Rules
Under 10 MRSA ยง1487, the Maine statute for home construction contracts, a job above $3,000 in labor or materials is done on a written contract carrying the signatures of both the homeowner and the contractor. Both of us hold a signed copy before the work begins, and the statute will not let the first payment run above a third of the contract total.
What gets built, with which materials, for what price and on what payment schedule is written into that contract, not onto this website. The statute also allows the price to change only by a written change order, so a soft rim found behind an old ledger would join the job that way.
This Website Is Not a Warranty
No page here warrants or guarantees anything. Any coverage for your deck comes from two sources only, the contract we sign with you and each product maker's published warranty.
Trademarks
Our pages mention makers including Trex, TimberTech, AZEK, Deckorators, Westbury, ProWood and FastenMaster, and each name belongs to its owner. Not one of them is connected to our company, and none has endorsed, approved or reviewed our work.
Maine and Contractor Licenses
Because Maine keeps no license for general contractors, no license number of ours appears on this site. In its place, Maine gives homeowners on jobs over $3,000 the signed, written contract set out above.
Permits, Inspections and Shoreland Rules
Two decisions belong to each town alone: does a deck need a permit at all, and will the town approve it. We check with the code office before anyone digs and file wherever a permit applies, but granting it is up to the town, and we never promise that it will.
Some towns inspect deck work in stages. Waterville's permit application, for one, lists a footing inspection, a framing inspection before the frame is covered and a final inspection.
Lots near lakes, ponds, rivers and streams can fall inside a town's shoreland zone under Maine's shoreland zoning program, which can cap how near the water a deck may be built. On a lot like that, we take the shoreland question to the code office with the permit question, before anyone draws the deck.
Start and Finish Dates
Under Maine's contract law, your contract will give estimated dates for starting the work and for substantial completion. That law allows both dates to shift when something beyond the contractor's control keeps the work from starting or finishing, an unready job site or building materials that cannot be had, for example.
Mud season, a stretch of rain, a special-order rail or rot uncovered as an old deck comes apart can also push a schedule. This website names no date on which a deck will start or be finished.
General Information Only
Our pages on footings, frost, ledgers, joists, guards, prices, town rules and decking are general information for homeowners. They are not legal advice or engineering advice, and they cannot stand in for a visit to your own yard.
The town's code officer settles any code question about a specific property.
Our Text Messages
Agreeing to texts on one of our forms brings these terms into effect.
- Topics: your estimate request, and then your deck job if you hire us.
- What it costs: message and data rates may apply, and message frequency varies.
- Opting out or asking for help: text STOP to end our messages, which one final reply confirms, or text HELP to get help.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Texts are optional, since consenting to them is not a condition of any purchase.
For how your number and consent are handled, see our Privacy Policy.
Copyright
Copyright may protect this site's words and pictures, so check with us before you reuse them anywhere.
Links to Other Websites
Town code offices, Maine's statutes, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the State building codes office and the American Wood Council are among the sites our pages point to. Those sites are outside our control, and what they publish is their own responsibility.
Liability
Within the limits Maine law sets, we accept no liability for loss that is indirect, incidental or consequential and that comes from browsing these pages or leaning on their general information. Work under a signed contract sits outside this limit and follows that contract alone.
Changes to These Terms
Revisions to these terms can happen at any time, and whatever appears on this page at the time governs. Continued use after a change counts as agreement to it.
Governing Law
The laws of Maine govern these terms, and the courts of Maine, state or federal, hear any dispute over this website.
Questions About These Terms
Email [email protected] about anything in these terms, or phone us at the number printed on our contact page.