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Elevated wood built by someone who reads the load path first. Ben looks at what the balcony fastens to before he looks at what it will be made of, and one crew frames, flashes, and finishes it.
A balcony puts people, furniture, and weather out over open air, held up by the way it is fastened to the house. Everything good about it, and everything that ever goes wrong with it, comes back to that connection.
So we build one the way we build any elevated structure: the attachment to the house first, flashing before finish, guards that do not move when somebody leans on them, and a walking surface chosen for what Kentucky weather actually does to wood.
Ben Scott came up through welding, ironwork, and rigging before he ran a construction company, which is why the load path is the part of this job he is most particular about. Twenty eight years in the trades, licensed, insured, and bonded, working across Danville, Boyle County, and the neighboring counties: Mercer, Lincoln, Casey, and Jessamine.
How the structure fastens to the house decides everything else. It gets framed and flashed before a single board of the walking surface goes down.
A balcony guard is what stands between people and the drop. It is built to Kentucky’s statewide residential code, inspected, and solid when somebody leans on it.
Ben came up through welding and ironwork, and it shows in the signature black steel balusters: evenly spaced, dead straight, framed by warm wood rails.
Every build carries a one year workmanship warranty in writing, and on jobs up to $10,000 nothing is due until the work is complete.
The work comes in three shapes:
Because we run our own concrete and excavation, a balcony that needs new footings or a post landing does not wait on a sub to get around to it. And when the same job also wants deck repair, a pergola, or siding put back around the new work, it is one crew and one schedule.
Elevated wood structures almost never fail because the wood was not strong enough. They fail because water got into the joint where the structure meets the house and stayed there, quietly, for years.
Central Kentucky is hard on that joint. We get real rain, then a freeze and thaw cycle that works its way into anything already holding moisture, and a balcony sheds water toward the wall it is attached to unless it is built not to. So the ledger connection gets flashed properly, the surface gets a slight fall away from the house, and the fasteners are chosen for wet treated lumber rather than for whatever is in the truck.
The same logic decides the material. Pressure treated framing carries the load. For the walking surface you can stay in wood or move to composite, and the honest tradeoff is upkeep against feel: wood wants cleaning and sealing on a cycle, composite decking does not. Ben will tell you which one fits how you actually maintain things.
A balcony guard is a safety system, not trim, and Kentucky’s mandatory statewide residential code governs how it has to perform. Every one we build is built to that code and inspected.
Kentucky has no statewide general contractor license, so the permit is where a contractor shows what he carries. In Boyle County that means a current county contractor’s occupational license, proof of at least $350,000 in general liability insurance, and workers compensation for the crew, plus a Danville business license for work inside city limits. Scott Construction holds all of it, pulls the permit, and meets the inspector on site.
If the house sits inside Danville’s designated historic district, an exterior change like a new balcony also needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Danville Architectural Heritage Board before work starts. We build that into the schedule rather than finding it out halfway through.
You call Ben and he comes out and looks at the wall, not just the balcony. What the structure is attached to, what is behind the siding, how the water currently runs, and what the room inside is doing all change the answer.
Then you get a straight number: a price, a schedule, and a clear scope of what gets built in what order.
During the work the site stays clean and the way into your house stays usable. At the end you walk it with Ben, punch list in hand. Done means you say it is done.
Every job carries a one year workmanship warranty in writing. There are veteran, military, and senior discounts on materials, a single parent discount on materials, and a referral program for every finished job. On jobs up to $10,000, nothing is due until the work is complete.
Yes. New wood balconies, rebuilds of failed ones, and railing replacements are all work Scott Construction takes on, built by the same crew that builds our decks and porches.
Almost always water at the joint where the structure meets the house. It gets in, it stays, and it works on the connection through Kentucky’s freeze and thaw cycles. That is why the attachment gets flashed properly and the surface is built to shed away from the wall.
Yes, and on a sound structure it is the highest-impact thing you can do. Swapping tired spindles for black steel balusters changes how the whole balcony reads, and it costs a fraction of a rebuild.
Both work. Wood wants cleaning and sealing on a cycle and gives you the traditional look. Composite skips that upkeep. Ben will walk you through the tradeoff for your house and how you actually maintain things.
An elevated structure like this is permitted work, and Kentucky’s mandatory statewide residential code governs the guard. We pull the permit, build to code, and meet the inspector on site. Inside Danville’s historic district, an exterior change also needs a Certificate of Appropriateness first.
Yes. We build across Boyle County and the neighboring counties, including Mercer, Lincoln, Casey, and Jessamine, and in Perryville, Junction City, and Nicholasville.
A straight answer costs nothing to ask for. Send the details or call, either way you talk to Ben.
