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Total Ventura Deck & Fence is a licensed deck builder serving Simi Valley, CA with pergola installation, custom deck design and build, wood and vinyl fence installation, and covered patio structures - operating throughout Ventura County since 2020. We know the valley's inland heat, clay soils, and Santa Ana wind exposure, and we build outdoor structures here that are engineered to hold up in those conditions.
Simi Valley summers are long, dry, and hot - midday sun in the valley regularly pushes past 90 degrees and makes unshaded outdoor spaces unusable for months. A well-positioned pergola over a deck or patio creates shade and airflow that makes the space comfortable again, and it does so without the heat buildup of a fully enclosed patio cover. See our pergola installation service.
Simi Valley has a mix of flat valley-floor lots and hillside properties near the Santa Susana Mountains, and the two require completely different approaches to deck design. A custom deck plan accounts for your actual lot, slope, and orientation rather than applying a standard layout that was designed for flat ground somewhere else.
Most of Simi Valley's housing stock was built between the 1960s and 1980s, and wood fences from that era are now at or past the end of their useful life. Replacing an aging fence also gives homeowners the chance to address post depth and spacing issues that made the original fence vulnerable to Santa Ana wind damage in the first place.
The inland heat and intense UV exposure in Simi Valley accelerate the weathering of untreated wood surfaces - boards fade, crack, and dry out faster here than in cooler coastal cities. Composite decking handles that climate without requiring the annual sealing and staining that wood decks need in this environment, which makes it popular with homeowners who commute and cannot keep up with seasonal maintenance.
A large share of Simi Valley decks were built alongside the city's tract home boom of the 1960s through 1980s, which means many original decks are now 40 to 60 years old - well past the point where surface-level repairs address the real problem. If the frame is soft or posts have shifted in the clay soil, repair is often not cost-effective and a full replacement is the better long-term answer.
Simi Valley's outdoor season is long, but afternoon heat in summer makes exposed patios uncomfortable without overhead protection. A solid or lattice patio cover extends the hours and months when a backyard space is actually usable, and in Wood Ranch and newer east-side neighborhoods, many homes were built with a patio slab but no overhead structure - leaving a straightforward upgrade available.
Simi Valley sits in an inland valley ringed by the Santa Susana Mountains to the south and rolling hills on other sides - many neighborhoods back directly up to hillside terrain, and those lots behave very differently from flat valley-floor properties when it comes to deck footings, drainage, and fence installation. Expansive clay soils move with each wet and dry season, which causes concrete footings, fence posts, and flatwork that were not anchored below the active soil layer to shift over time. That is why proper footing depth matters more here than in a coastal city where the soil is more stable.
The city grew quickly through large-scale tract home development between roughly 1960 and 1990, and most of Simi Valley's housing stock dates from that era. Homes that are 40 to 60 years old are past the useful life of original fencing, decking, and patio structures - and Santa Ana winds that gust above 50 mph each fall put the oldest and weakest structures to the test every year. The Easy Fire in 2019 came close to residential neighborhoods on the hillside edges of the city, and that proximity reminds many homeowners to consider fire-resistant decking and venting materials when planning new outdoor structures.
Our crew works throughout Simi Valley regularly, and we pull permits through the City of Simi Valley Building Safety Division for deck, fence, and patio cover projects here. We understand what the city requires for footing depths on hillside and clay-soil lots, and we know the difference between a straightforward valley-floor project and one that needs engineered plans before the permit can be approved.
Simi Valley is a city most people know through a few landmarks: the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on a hilltop above the city, Simi Valley Town Center near the middle of the valley, and Wood Ranch - the master-planned community in the east with its own golf course and some of the city's newer and larger two-story homes. Those three reference points roughly map out the city's spread from older ranch-style neighborhoods in the core to newer planned developments on the east side, and the two halves of the city have different typical lot profiles and housing ages.
We also serve homeowners in nearby Santa Paula, CA and Moorpark, CA, so if you are on the Simi-Moorpark or Simi-Santa Paula corridor, you are well within our regular work area.
Reach us by phone or through the contact form and we will follow up within one business day. You can call during the week or reach out over the weekend - we respond to all Simi Valley inquiries the same way.
We come to your Simi Valley property to look at the site conditions - lot slope, soil, access, existing structures - and give you an honest written estimate with no obligation. For hillside lots or properties with clay soil movement, the site visit often changes what we recommend before a number is written down.
Once you approve the estimate, we submit the permit application to the City of Simi Valley and schedule construction to begin as soon as approval comes through - typically two to four weeks. You do not need to be home during the work unless you prefer to be.
When the project is complete, we walk the finished work with you before we close out the permit. If anything needs adjustment, we handle it before we leave - not after a final invoice is sent.
We serve all Simi Valley neighborhoods - from the older ranch homes near Town Center to the hillside properties bordering the Santa Susanas. Call or submit your project online and we will follow up within one business day.
(805) 861-1648Simi Valley is a city of about 126,000 people in the eastern part of Ventura County, tucked into a valley formed by the Santa Susana Mountains to the south and lower hills on the other sides. The city incorporated in 1969 and grew rapidly through large suburban tract developments over the following two decades. Most of Simi Valley's neighborhoods - including the communities closest to the 118 Freeway corridor - were built in the 1960s through 1980s and consist mainly of single-story ranch-style homes with stucco exteriors and modest lot sizes. The homeownership rate here is notably high for California, and most residents are long-term owners rather than renters. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sits on a hilltop above the valley and is one of the most recognizable institutions in the city.
On the east side, Wood Ranch is a planned community with a golf course, newer two-story homes from the 1990s and 2000s, and a distinctly different housing profile from the older ranch-style neighborhoods closer to the city center. The 118 Freeway connects Simi Valley to the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles, making the city a popular home base for commuters who want more space than they can get closer to the city. We serve homeowners throughout Simi Valley and also work regularly in neighboring Thousand Oaks, CA.
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