How much does a deck & porch job cost in Ames? The usual deck & porch job filed with Ames is $12,000, from 245 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $5,000 and $25,000. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual deck & porch job filed with Ames is $12,000, from 245 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $5,000 and $25,000. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A deck & porch permit here usually takes 91 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 245 priced permits across 95 firms, pooled into one. Half of Ames deck & porch permits were filed between $5,100 and $25,800.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $1,900 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $5,100 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $12,500 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $25,800 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $44,600 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: Story County Assessor values (tax year 2026).
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $272,800 | $3,833 | 30 | 54 |
| Middle third | $272,800–$385,200 | $12,794 | 31 | 77 |
| Upper third | $390,650 and up | $17,000 | 31 | 109 |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in; both are shown for firms with 5 or more priced permits. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMJ Construction Services | 49 | 17 | $17,000 | $12,000–$40,000 |
| Valor Home Builders | 8 | 8 | $3,833 | $3,833–$3,883 |
| Cyclone Contracting | 16 | 7 | $22,612 | $14,086–$35,000 |
| TSR Concrete Coating dba Revamp Fence & Deck | 6 | 5 | $24,602 | $17,425–$28,550 |
| Dan Cox Enterprises | 7 | 3 | $4,918 | $3,500–$11,188 |
| Country Landscapes | 5 | 3 | $37,621 | $21,658–$40,422 |
| Performance Builders | 9 | 2 | $30,000 | $17,000–$32,000 |
| Geisinger Construction | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Central Iowa Contractor Services | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Flummerfelt 525 SE 16th LLC | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Line your quote up against the file. In Ames, 1 in 10 deck & porch filed values sit under $1,900, the middle half between $5,100 and $25,800, and 1 in 10 over $44,600.
Ames files the fewest deck & porch permits in January (24 against an average month of 100) and the most in September (186). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Ames →
Source: City of Ames residential permits (one record per permit). The window is October 2023 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
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