Owning a dock makes waterfront recreation and storing your boat or other watercraft much simpler. If you’ve recently decided to install a dock on your waterfront property, you may have seen DIY instructions or videos for dock construction.
While these resources may make dock construction seem easy, you’ll quickly find that it’s usually not. When it comes to building a dock, you’ll always want to leave the work to a professional dock builder. Here are three of the top reasons why:
- Legal codes and regulations. Building a dock isn’t something you can just decide to do one day without any background research. There are codes and regulations in place to make sure your dock is safe for people and surrounding marine life. A professional dock builder knows how to work within these codes and regulations so you don’t get in trouble later on for not following them.
- Safety. You could get yourself injured during the dock construction process if you don’t know what you’re doing — and if you’ve never built a dock, you probably don’t. It takes a lot of training and experience to become a good dock builder, and you can’t substitute a professional’s knowledge with warnings and advice from a DIY website. Keep yourself safe and work with a dock builder when you want a new dock installed.
- Reliability. You want your dock to last as long as possible and not fall apart as soon as it’s used. For a sturdy, reliable dock, you should work with one of our dock builders at Custom Dock Works. All of our builders are well-trained and equipped to provide you with the dock of your dreams.
Give us a call today for all of your dock construction needs.