DeckTec to The Future
Welcome to the first edition of DeckTec Lifestyle, a newsletter designed to bring you the best ideas in outdoor living. We’ll be reaching out nine times each year to bring you new products, services, and information for enhancing your outdoor living experience. We think you’ll enjoy learning more about DeckTec Outdoor Design as a company, as well as recent news and trends in outdoor living. In this edition, we would like to share a brief glimpse into how I got my start in the custom deck and outdoor living field. Over 25 years, outdoor living has evolved and become much[...]
Happy Holiday Season from Decktec
Thank you to all our friends in the DeckTec community for another great year of Outdoor Living at its finest. We have enjoyed every minute of deck design, construction, and maintenance with you, and have appreciated your readership of this blog on the art of outdoor living. DeckTec Blog Change Coming And speaking of blogs, recently DeckTec had the opportunity to review responses to the content for this site. What our statistics show is that you seem most interested in the care and construction of wood decks. So with that in mind, the format for the Outdoor Experiences blog is[...]
Get Sweeping!
DeckTec’s Adam Guilford talks about taking care of your snowy deck. The man in the parking lot wrapped his coat tighter and called out, “It’s too cold today.” While indeed the weather was cloudy, temperatures that day were in the high 30’s. Wonder what he’ll do when the real cold of Colorado’s winters hit. And snow. And ice. Colorado winters can indeed be harsh, not only on you, but on your deck as well. Our snowfalls can occur any time during approximately eight months of the year. And when the risk of snow stops, you can often be hit by[...]
A Letter of Thanks
Dear DeckTec Friends, Anyone who has been around me long knows that Thanksgiving time is very special to me. It is the chance to look about and acknowledge the blessings of another good year, the wonderful team I work with and, of course, the terrific people who call themselves DeckTec customers. Blessings of the Year The summer of 2014 was tremendously successful. But we couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks! Here are some of the things that made last season so great: 68 new decks were designed and built for our community. That’s roughly 22372 square feet of decking,[...]
Holiday Decorating with Wildlife In Mind
Ready or not, the holiday season is just about upon us once again. Time to enjoy your Thanksgiving turkey and start sending your holiday greeting cards. As you dig your Christmas lights and decorations out of the garage or basement we'd like to remind you, especially if you live in one of our wilderness cities, to take care to decorate with wildlife needs in mind. Colorado Parks and Wildlife public information officer, Jennifer Churchill, said that every year the situation happens where a member of our wildlife community gets caught in tennis or soccer nets, or sometimes a trampoline, and[...]
