I have a shitty contractor I can't not recommend enough who has taken 7 months to nearly finish building a garage that should have taken 2 months to complete...Interesting twist on the deck project... I don't know why I didn't realize this, but Wifey is a developer - we get builder's px on materials. The big materials are the decking surface. It will be interesting to see if anything comes to fruition with this new development.