Coastal Shared Deck & Walkway Restoration — Daly City

Years of salt air had taken the whole assembly at once. On the surface, the shared deck had gone silver-gray and brittle, with boards splitting and whole sections gone soft — one had already opened into a hole down to the joists, right where residents walked to their doors. Underneath was the real concern: at the post-to-beam connections carrying the deck, the beam ends had rotted black and the galvanized brackets had corroded through, with posts checking where they met the beams over the concrete piers.

The deck is a shared route and a shared amenity — it fronts a row of units and connects to the second-floor walkway — so it couldn’t be fenced off and abandoned for two months. And a like-for-like repair would have failed the same way on the same timeline: the same standard hardware in the same salt air. The property needed the deck brought back sound and detailed to last on the coast, without cutting residents off from their doors.