About Our Team

Ensuring Your Safety By Building Quality Decks

Meet The Owners

Hard Decks is a family-owned and operated company. Both owners are Belvidere natives.

Andy Dawley (left) graduated from Belvidere High School in 1990 and has built hundreds of homes and businesses from Freeport to Chicago. Jayme Carlson (right) graduated from Belvidere High School in 2005 and has gained carpentry experience ever since.

We are passionate about providing our community with the highest-quality decks. Hard Decks is also committed to our client’s safety, which is why Jayme and Andy are NADRA-certified deck inspectors.

Our Mission

We aim to provide high-quality decks that are up to code and safe for our clients. We achieve our mission by following our core values:

Committed To Making Sure Your Deck Is Well-Built

You Can Count On Us To Do Things Right

We Have Industry Experience

We are the area's only company that specializes in decks and only decks.

We're Easy To Work With

From start to finish, our team makes your deck project easy.

We Know Building Code

We pride ourselves in knowing the current codes and going above and beyond what is required when building decks.

Our
Simple
Process

We've developed an easy process for you to go from an idea to enjoying your dream deck.

Your Experience Is Important To Us

Please read what previous clients have said about working with us.

Hard Decks

5.0

Based on 15 reviews

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Darin Miller

14:48 19 Apr 23

Special thanks out to one and all members of the Hard Decks crew and all the people working behind the scenes to make our deck replacement absolutely beautiful. The crew showed up every day with a plan and worked it flawlessly. Andy kept us informed of daily progress and made sure the work site was cleaned up and ready for the next day of work. Highly recommend this business to anyone interested in deck replacement.

David Gilbert

21:55 31 Mar 23

Integrity, Pride, and Attention to detail in their work is what we can say about Hard Decks. From the first meeting with Jayme to the talented carpenters (Andy , Shawn, and Trace), they were all polite and professional. When unforseen problems came up, they were honest and knowledgeable about explaining potential solutions that made sense. We highly recommend Hard Decks if you want quality and professional work.Thank you Hard Decks for a beautiful outdoor living space.

Jim & Colleen Hanson

00:20 23 Nov 22

Using Hard Decks was a great decision on our part! We now have a gorgeous, usable deck. This company produced a finished product that is professionally designed and built. Quality workmanship all the way. They cleaned the area each day and were on the job sight as promised. Happy to recommend this company. Thanks to the entire crew.

Casey Knoepfle

21:28 29 Sep 22

We had an unfortunate accident with a tree falling and destroying our deck. Jayme was incredibly easy to work with from the start. He was able to get over and start working on a plan to remove the old one and build a new composite deck within a few days. He listened to our requests, and offered a couple different options. We never felt like we were pushed into more than we wanted or wanted to spend. They started the project within a reasonable amount of time, and the quality was exactly what we expected. I would highly recommend reaching out to Hard Decks if you are in the market for building or replacing your deck.

Robert Johnson

16:40 03 May 22

The Hard Deck crew replaced our front deck and ramp. We couldn’t be happier with the finished product. The composite decking and new railings look great! The crew was great to work with and were great with my mom when she had to use the ramp while they worked, that goes a long way in my book. Jayme was also very good to work with. He was very responsive through the whole process.

About Our Team

Ensuring Your Safety By Building Quality Decks

Meet The Owners

Our Mission