Decks & Outdoor Living
in Ashburn.

Real Elite Contracting builds decks and outdoor living for Ashburn homeowners — composite builds, railing and lighting, and the next step when you want a roof or screen. Ashburn is unincorporated Loudoun County, not a town: there is no separate municipal zoning office. County building and zoning run through LandMARC. We work Brambleton, Broadlands, Ashburn Farm, and One Loudoun when the parcel sits in those associations. We install Trex, TimberTech, and AZEK when the job calls for them; we do not advertise a manufacturer Pro or Platinum badge we do not hold.

Every Ashburn deck needs a Loudoun County building permit and a county zoning permit. Typical Deck Detail is the fast path: single-level, attached, residential, joist overhangs of 2 feet or less, and no roof, screen, hot tub, gazebo, or detached structure. Published county fee on that path is $265 (building plus zoning) under 1,000 sq ft. A roofed patio, screened porch, or three-season room drops out of Typical and needs full structural plans: $395 under 1,000 sq ft. Those numbers are from Loudoun Building and Development — not a contractor guess. County inspections: footing before concrete, framing before decking, final. Framing and final may combine when framing is at least 42 inches above grade. Published minimum footing depth is 24 inches on solid soil.

A county permit is not HOA approval. The county does not enforce covenants. We submit both tracks in parallel so they do not stack. In Brambleton, official design review covers essentially all exterior changes, permanent or temporary; the Covenants Committee typically meets the second Monday, applications are due 9:00 AM Friday ten days prior (holiday weeks shift — we use the published calendar), and decision letters usually follow 5–7 business days after the meeting. In Broadlands, Declaration 7.5 requires prior written consent for any exterior addition; decks are a listed Modifications Subcommittee project. Applications are due at noon Wednesday, one week before the meeting; March–October the subcommittee meets the first and third Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, November–February the third Wednesday; result letters are normally emailed within a week of the meeting. For One Loudoun and Ashburn Farm we submit the current association packet — we do not publish approved-color lists or worksheet rules from contractor blogs or third-party form sites.

What you get is the paperwork product: we tell you which county path the design is on (Typical vs full plans), which association reviews the lot, and we prepare the LandMARC set plus the ARC packet. We install to the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and the approved Typical Detail or stamped plans, and document each inspection.