Decks & Outdoor Living
in Martinsburg.

Martinsburg decks take the full Eastern Panhandle year: humid summers with fast thunderstorms, then a winter of freeze and thaw that works water into every fastener and board end. That cycle is why pressure-treated pine here needs sanding and staining by about year three and why so many Berkeley County homeowners replacing a fifteen-year-old deck do not replace it in kind.

Installed cost in this market runs roughly $15 to $25 per square foot for pressure-treated pine and $30 to $55 per square foot for composite like Trex or TimberTech. On a typical 400 square foot deck that is a real spread, and it is worth being honest about where it goes: composite costs more up front and gives back the annual maintenance weekend, holds colour through the west-facing exposures common out toward Spring Mills, and does not splinter where children are barefoot.

We build across Berkeley County — the older homes near downtown and Queen Street, where grade and existing framing need a careful look before anything is designed, and the newer subdivisions toward Spring Mills, Hedgesville and the Route 11 corridor, where a straightforward replacement moves quickly. Footings go below the frost line, which in this part of West Virginia is not a detail to eyeball.

Berkeley County permits and inspections are ours to handle. You get a written, itemized estimate before anything is torn out, with framing, decking, railing, footings and any structural work broken out separately so the number is checkable. Family-run by brothers Jose and Miguel. Miguel is a U.S. military veteran and Purple Heart recipient. Real Elite Contracting is licensed in West Virginia and Virginia.