Luxury outdoor living, engineered from helical piles to finished railing — because doing it right costs less than doing it over.
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A Fishkill, NY–based Trex Platinum Pro Builder — the Hudson Valley's premier.
Pinnacle Decking designs and builds luxury Trex composite decks, outdoor kitchens, helical pile foundations, Trex Signature aluminum railings, Haven LED lighting, fire features, pool and spa decks, pergolas, and complete outdoor living spaces across Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties. We are listed publicly on Trex.com as a Platinum Pro Builder — the premier Trex certification, held by fewer than one percent of builders nationally. Every project is delivered with both the Trex manufacturer warranty and the 10-year TrexPro Platinum labor warranty, registered and emailed within 24 hours of completion.
Direct line — (845) 985-1000
We don't tell clients what their property needs. We listen — and ask questions — until we find the project you already have in your head. Then we build that. Every step customized to you, from first conversation through final board.
Every service is a Pinnacle specialty — not a subcontract, not an upsell. Foundation to furniture, one builder, one standard.
Custom Trex Signature® & Lineage® composite decks, replacements, picture framing, stairs, fascia, and hidden fasteners.
Engineered foundation systems driven to depth. Stable, permanent, no frost heave.
Trex Signature aluminum railing — the full collection. Cable, balusters, whatever the design calls for. Climate-stable, no mold, no sag.
Full-color LED risers, in-deck lights, post caps, corner lights, pop-up outlets. Every job.
Covered kitchens, grill stations, cedar ceilings, counters, and entertainment layouts.
Integrated fire tables, lounge zones, heat, atmosphere, and four-season evening usability.
Poolside Trex spaces, hot tub platforms, RainEscape® underdeck drainage, lighting, and privacy.
Shade structures, covered porch transitions, and Unilock pavers, walls, and patios — one unified space.
Every component of a Pinnacle build is installed by a contractor certified by the manufacturer who makes it. The Hudson Valley's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder.
Held by fewer than one percent of deck builders nationally. Awarded on completed project volume, training, warranty history, and inspection of installed work. Renewed annually. It cannot be bought.
Engineered helical pile foundations driven below the frost line. Site dictates — helical piles or concrete pinned to ledge.
Full-color programmable LED on every job — riser, post-cap, in-deck, and landscape zones, every scene set up before we leave.
Premium hardscape — pavers, walls, patios, and bluestone landings designed with the deck as one space.
Outdoor kitchen systems and integrated grill stations built for year-round Hudson Valley use.
Recycled HDPE outdoor furniture. The Eastport Collection in Weathered Tweed is the Pinnacle signature pairing.
Weather-rated motorized TV lift systems engineered for outdoor integration. Concealed. Climate-stable.
Motorized outdoor solar shades. Our installation videos are hosted as the national standard.
Haven full-color LED — risers, post caps, in-deck, and landscape zones — wired before the boards go down. By design, never added on after.
A 14-step documented build sequence — the same discipline on the modest project as on the flagship. The board didn't fail. The install did.
Customer first — how you live, how you entertain, what the property gives us. Then water paths, grade, setbacks, variances. All read at once.
Site dictates. Helical piles to engineered depth where soil allows; concrete pinned to ledge where Hudson Valley geology requires. No frost heave, no settling.
Ice-and-water shield against the house. PVC flashing over that — aluminum corrodes against PT. Doubled perimeter, heavy-duty corner brackets, through-screwed every 12 inches.
Joist spacing calculated from picture-frame and breaker-board positions first — never defaulted. Blocking at thirds of span, staggered for clean face nails.
Solid stain sprayed with a fine finish tip — complete coverage of all PT and LVL framing, always black. Three tiers: PT, LVL, and Owens Corning structural.
Applied after encapsulation. Top edge of every framing member that touches a board, plus the vertical edge that receives fascia. If framing touches a board, it gets taped first.
Start from the outside edge, work toward the house. Double picture frame — grain follows the perimeter like a circle. The last revealed board is always full width.
Every cut end routed and painted with edge-grain paint. Pre-drill, blow dust, install Cortex screws, plug immediately. When complete, you cannot tell it was screwed.
Three pieces — base, step, square-edge cap. All glued and screwed with decking plugs, not fascia plugs. Reads like crown molding from the yard.
Posts divided evenly — math before material. Accent-light wire snaked through each post before installation. Every post bolted into reinforced blocking placed during framing.
Every stringer doubled. 10 inches on center — tighter than standard, eliminates bounce. Risers glued and screwed first. Lighting daisy-chained before treads go down.
In-deck lights on the second picture-frame board. Rail lighting centered on each run. Pop-up outlets flush in the surface. Who wants to run a cord across their new deck? Nobody.
Haven app on your phone. Every zone set up, patterns and scenes created. Phone handed over. We step back. We come back to smiles.
Both warranties emailed within 24 hours — Trex manufacturer warranty plus the 10-year TrexPro Platinum labor warranty. Transferable once within five years. Call anytime to adjust scenes — no charge, ever.
The framing always costs less than the decking. That never made sense to us. The frame holds everything up — if it fails, everything above it fails, no matter how good the boards are.
The baseline — encapsulated and joist-taped on every Pinnacle build, protected from day one. The framing industry skips this. We don't.
Straighter, stronger, longer spans with no crown variation. Creates a perfect plane — decking lays cleaner, fascia lines read sharper.
No rot. No warp. No moisture absorption — ever. The structure performs at the same level as everything above it. No encapsulation required.
| Detail | Industry Standard | Pinnacle |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Concrete piers, often undersized. Footings fail. | Helical piles or concrete pinned to ledge — site-engineered, driven to depth. |
| Framing protection | Bare PT — rots from the joist out. | Three tiers: PT encapsulated + joist-taped, LVL for stronger spans, Owens Corning where maximum performance is required. |
| Ledger flashing | Aluminum — corrodes against PT. | Ice-and-water shield + PVC flashing. |
| Joist tape | Skipped or partial. | Every piece, every contact edge, the vertical fascia edge too. |
| Fasteners | Visible screws. | Hidden clips throughout + Cortex-plugged ends — invisible. |
| Fascia | One piece, fascia screws. | Three-piece, glued and screwed, decking plugs — crown-molding profile. |
| Railing | Composite — molds, sags in one summer. | Trex Signature aluminum exclusively — full collection, climate-stable, never molds. |
| Stair stringers | Single, 16" on center. | Doubled, 10" on center — no bounce. |
| Lighting | Added later, surface-mount. | Haven full-color, designed from day one, wired before decking closes. |
| Warranty | Material only, often unregistered. | Material + 10-yr TrexPro Platinum labor, emailed in 24 hrs, transferable. |
Engineering and permits are part of the build — drawings, stamped structural details where required, and municipal submissions managed in-house. Never an upsell. Always the standard.
Garrison, NY. A multi-level elevated outdoor living estate on the Hudson. The clients first called about replacing deck boards. The build under it was failing — framing, foundation, all of it. We told them the truth and they trusted it. A property that performs in February as well as it photographs in July.
No renders. No stock. Every image is a live Pinnacle build across the Hudson Valley.
Pinnacle Decking was built so a brand could stand on its own. Not on a name. Not on a story. On a standard. The difference between a great deck and one that lasts decades isn't the material — it's the discipline applied to every connection underneath it. Pinnacle codified that discipline: a documented 14-step build sequence, eight manufacturer certifications, one standard on every job.
TimberTech. AZEK PVC. Decorators. Trex. After installing every major composite in real Hudson Valley conditions — not in a showroom — the data made the decision. Trex performs, especially paired with aluminum railing installed to a documented standard. Aluminum railing only: composite absorbs moisture from the tree canopy, grows mold within weeks, and sags by the end of one summer. Some contractors call that lost maintenance revenue. We call it integrity.
That number often changes — not because we push, but because we listen. We ask questions until we find the project you actually have in your head. Then we build that.
If you know the difference, you're already home.
Messco Building Supply has been a Hudson Valley fixture since 1981 — a real Orange County lumber yard, named for the family behind it, not a corporate logo. Contractors and homeowners know the people at the counter by name. It's the supplier the trade reaches for over the big-box stores, because the help is honest and the trucks actually show up.
When it came time to build their own showroom, they didn't open a bid process or route it through a department. They called Pinnacle.
We built the exterior walls, the fencing, the outdoor decks, and the display decks on the showroom floor itself. That's how both of us work — owner to owner, name to name. No call center, no account number, no waiting on a regional manager to approve a callback.
Just real people standing behind real work. The kind of proof that cannot be bought.
Local crews. Local permits. Local references you can drive past. Pinnacle Decking is the premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder serving four counties.
Pinnacle Decking is Westchester County's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder, designing and building luxury Trex decks, outdoor kitchens, and complete outdoor living spaces on helical pile foundations with aluminum railing and Haven LED lighting.
Putnam County's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder — home of our flagship, Hudson Horizon Haven in Garrison. Elevated decks, cable railing, and full-color lighting engineered for Hudson River terrain.
Based in Fishkill, Pinnacle Decking is Dutchess County's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder — luxury composite decks, pool and spa decks, and covered outdoor living built to the documented Pinnacle standard.
Orange County's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder. From helical pile foundations to integrated Haven lighting, Pinnacle delivers complete outdoor living engineered for Hudson Valley weather.
Color reads differently in your light — against your siding, beside your stone, at dusk. Get the real boards in hand before you decide. Tell us where to send them and we'll set you up with up to five free Trex samples.
Pinnacle Decking is the Hudson Valley's premier Trex Platinum Pro Builder — the highest certification Trex offers, held by fewer than one percent of builders nationally. It includes a 10-year TrexPro Platinum labor warranty when Trex decking and railing are installed together, transferable to a new homeowner within five years.
Based in Fishkill, New York, Pinnacle Decking serves homeowners across Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties throughout the Hudson Valley.
Every elevated Pinnacle deck is built on helical piles driven to engineered depth — anchored below the frost line so the structure does not settle, shift, or heave in freeze-thaw soil cycles. Where Hudson Valley geology requires, concrete is pinned to ledge.
Every Pinnacle project is scoped to your property — there's no menu price. We learn what you're after, design to it, and walk you through a detailed investment range during your consultation. Ask us anything; you'll get a straight answer.
A documented 14-step install standard with zero shortcuts: helical pile foundations, the proprietary three-piece fascia method, framing encapsulation and joist tape, Cortex screws and plugs, routed and sealed cut ends, Trex Signature aluminum railing exclusively, and Haven LED lighting designed into every project.
Pinnacle responds within 24 hours. Most contractors quote first and listen second. We do it the other way.
No phone tree. No gatekeeper. The owner answers.
Westchester · Putnam · Dutchess · Orange Counties · Based in Fishkill, NY
Because doing it right costs less than doing it over.