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Call (888) 321-3875 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Donna, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.

We also serve Weslaco, TX and the rest of the Rio Grande Valley. Everything starts at the McAllen Elite Deck Builders homepage.

McAllen Elite Deck Builders covers the same range of work in Donna that we do in McAllen — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• Screened Porches — A screened porch is what finally lets you sit outside on a Valley evening without donating blood, and it is one of the most-used rooms we build. We frame screened porches in McAllen with a solid roof over them, tensioned screen panels with removable spline, pet-resistant mesh on the lower panels, kick panels where feet and paws land, and an outdoor-rated ceiling fan wired in from the start.
• Deck Railings: Cable, Glass, Aluminum & Wood — Deck railings are the most safety-critical part of a deck and the most common thing built wrong, because a guard has to resist a 200 pound concentrated load in any direction and most site-built wood railings never could. We install stainless cable, tempered glass, powder-coated aluminum and wood railing systems in McAllen, with posts and connections engineered for the actual loads and openings that satisfy the 4-inch sphere rule.
• Deck Stairs & Landings — Deck stairs are the most dangerous part of any deck and the part we are called to repair most often, almost always because the risers are uneven. We build and rebuild deck stairs and landings in McAllen to the geometry that actually governs safety — risers at or under 7 3/4 inches, treads at 10 inches or more, and riser variation across a flight held under 3/8 of an inch — with graspable handrails and stringers landing on real footings.
• Built-In Seating & Planters — Built-in seating makes a modest deck live much larger than patio furniture ever will, because a perimeter bench frees the whole middle of the deck. We frame benches, storage seating and planter boxes into McAllen decks off the structure's own beams and blocking, at seat heights and depths that are actually comfortable, with drainage detailed so wet soil and closed boxes never rot the deck underneath.
• Deck Lighting — Deck lighting is what doubles the hours you actually use a deck in a climate where the pleasant part of the day starts after sunset. We install low-voltage 12-volt LED systems on McAllen decks — riser and stair lights, post caps, under-rail and under-bench strip washes — with properly sized transformers, warm 2700K color, and direct-burial cable in gasketed connections.
• Outdoor Kitchens on Decks — An outdoor kitchen on a deck is a structural problem before it is a design problem, because a stone counter and a built-in grill weigh several times what the deck was designed to carry. We frame and build outdoor kitchens into McAllen decks with dedicated beam and pier support under the heavy runs, code clearance to combustibles around the grill, and gas, water, drain and electrical roughed in before the decking ever goes down.

See the full list of McAllen services, or call (888) 321-3875.

Donna sits in Hidalgo County with a population of roughly about 16,800, over roughly 8 square miles of Delta-area farmland, close enough to McAllen that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Donna Reservoir and its irrigation canal system, the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Donna properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Hidalgo County, and a deck building contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.