The fifties house has a patio slab that cracked years ago and a back door that opens onto two steps and the lawn. More Monroeville homes went up in that decade than in any other, in planned streets such as Penn View. We build the deck or roofed patio those yards were waiting for, ready for any inspector.
Monroeville Decks
Four planned neighborhoods here were laid out around the middle of the fifties, and every Monroeville home is inspected when someone new moves in. Between the age of the yards and that inspection, deck requests here follow a pattern.
At deck connections, the municipal checklist rejects both lag screws and carriage bolts, forbids lattice in guards and calls for handrails once a stair reaches four steps. A new deck should clear that list the first time.
Connections to the house use through-bolts, guard balusters sit less than 4 inches apart, and a rail goes on each stair four treads high or taller. It's designed around the checklist from the drawing stage, not patched to it after.
Monroeville deck checklistSingle-family lots in the two main districts keep 40 feet clear at the back. Behind a fifties house, the question is how far a new deck may extend, and whether putting a roof on it changes the answer.
Your survey or plot plan gives us the lines, and Building & Engineering tells us how your deck is classified. Open porches can project 12 feet into the rear yard, while accessory structures stay a full 10 feet inside the lot lines.
Monroeville setbacksIf your yard has an old concrete patio that has heaved and split by the back door, you may be weighing a new pour, a low deck over it, or a roof over the whole thing.
First we study the slab, the soil beneath and the way rain drains past it, then lay out choices. A low deck on its own footings can float above the old concrete, and a roofed patio's posts get separate footings alongside.
DecksCovering the patio keeps supper outdoors through a summer shower and puts shade over the table. Each application in Monroeville must include a site plan or survey, and review can stretch from 15 to 30 working days.
Your survey, or a site sketch showing the house, the patio roof and the lot lines, goes in with our application, and the start date is set around that window. Framing is sized for snow, flashed at the house and drained clear of the steps.
Monroeville permitsParts of Monroeville carry a landslide-prone overlay, where a licensed professional must study the site before any zoning permit allows digging. Owners of steep yards want decks that don't drift.
Before a shovel goes in, we ask Building & Engineering if the overlay covers your property. If it does, the study leads and footings follow its findings; on any grade, posts are braced and set away from where runoff flows.
Monroeville slope rulesSome families want the patio roofed and screened so the kids can have dinner outdoors without bug spray. Others prefer glass panels to stretch the season into spring and fall.
On a deck or patio frame strengthened for the load, we raise a roof and wrap it in screen with its own door, or set glass panels in for the shoulder seasons. The structure underneath is checked before any walls go up.
Screened roomsHousing ages: Census ACS 2020–2024, Monroeville. Postwar neighborhoods: the 2005 municipal plan. Deck items: the sale and rental checklist. Setbacks and overlays: zoning Chapter 359.
The rest of the job
How it runs, what it costs and who builds it are on our main decks & covered patios page.
Decks in Monroeville
A Monroeville deck starts with a plot plan, must respect a 40-foot rear setback, and gets measured against the occupancy checklist whenever the house changes hands or tenants.
15–30Working days the review can take
Building & Engineering, on Monroeville Boulevard, wants a site plan or survey with each application and takes 15 to 30 working days to review. A deck designed in winter is ready to build in spring. Office details are on our Monroeville kitchen page.
Monroeville permits40 ftRear yard in R-1 and R-2
Both single-family districts require 40 feet of open rear yard. Open porches up to 15 feet tall may push 12 feet into it, and accessory structures keep 10 feet back. We confirm how your deck is classed first, and our additions page for Monroeville has the details.
Monroeville setbacksNo latticeIn guards, per the checklist
When a new occupant is due, inspectors look at the deck along with the house: through-bolts at the connections, no lattice in the guards, handrails on any four-tread stair. The complete checklist is on our Monroeville exterior repairs page.
Monroeville deck checklistDeck Questions
Monroeville owners raise these from the cracked slab out back. For the whole sequence of a deck job, see our decks page.
Ask a QuestionIts footprint, height, boards, any roof and any slab that has to come out all play in. A screened room runs more than an open deck. Once the yard is measured against your plot plan, the figure goes in writing.
What decks costThe municipality takes either a survey or a site plan with each application. The survey from your closing may be enough; if you can't find it, we check with Building & Engineering on what it will take before applying.
Monroeville permitsWe build ours to the checklist: through-bolted connections, guards above 30 inches with openings under 4 inches and no lattice, and handrails wherever four treads or more climb. Those are the items inspectors check.
Monroeville deck checklistOften, where the lot and zoning allow. Around 8% of homes in Monroeville are attached. If yours belongs to an association, it may have its own approval step, so check first; we work from whatever it requires.
Monroeville setbacksAbout a quarter of Monroeville is mapped over confirmed mining, concentrated around Monroeville Mall and Route 22, and ordinary policies leave subsidence out. When a patio roof or room will attach to the house in that area, check the address with DEP first.
Coal under MonroevilleOther Services
Monroeville owners also call us about kitchens, baths, finishing an attic or cellar, additions, replacement windows and exterior repair, linked here.
Kitchen RemodelingNew layouts, new cabinets, new counters: framed, built, and installed by the same crew.View Service
Bathroom RemodelingFull gut renovations with proper waterproofing, new framing, and tile set by hand.View Service
Attic FinishingUnused attics framed into bedrooms and offices: subfloor, insulation, drywall, and a proper stair.View Service
Basement FinishingUnfinished basements turned into real rooms: framed, insulated, drywalled, and finished by our crew.View Service
Additions & ADUsAdditions and accessory dwelling units (ADUs), framed from the ground up and tied in clean.View Service
Windows & Exterior DoorsWindows and exterior doors set, flashed, and trimmed so water stays out of the wall.View Service
Exterior Restoration & Structural RepairsRotted trim and siding, sagging joists, failed sills: opened up and repaired to solid wood.View ServiceVerified Google Reviews
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