Dock Repair & Rebuilds

A dock fails from the waterline down, where you can’t see it. Decking greys and softens in the sun, fasteners rust out, and pilings get hollowed from the inside by marine borers (shipworms) that thrive in our warm salt water. We catch it at the repair stage when we can - swapping soft boards, re-securing framing, and replacing corroded hardware - and rebuild from the pilings up when a storm or years of neglect have taken the structure past saving.

We build in pressure-treated wood or low-maintenance composite, with marine-grade galvanized or stainless hardware chosen for the salt. Whether it’s a finger pier off a canal home or a long walkway out to deeper water off Casey Key, the goal is the same: a dock that’s safe to walk, solid under a loaded cooler, and built to current code.

Every inspection starts below the deck, because that is where the truth is. We probe the pilings for soft spots and borer damage, check the through-bolts and brackets that a builder may have cheaped out on, and look at how the dock is holding up to the specific exposure of your spot - a wide-open bayfront on Longboat Key takes a very different beating than a sheltered finger canal in Nokomis. Where the job needs a Sarasota County, FDEP, or Army Corps permit, we pull it and set turbidity barriers when seagrass or a manatee zone is involved, so your dock is done legally and inspected, not patched and hoped over.