“If the deck is 15 years old, then you have five to 10 years before the framing starts to fail,” says Monk, who used his 13 years of landscaping, fence and deck building experience to start Ugly Decks last year. “We can come do a deck resurface, but I know I’ll be back to do the framing. Sometimes you can put Band-Aids on it then come back and put more Band-Aids on it, but I like to set the homeowner up for success.”