Dock Services on Lake Granbury
Six kinds of job, all of them on the water — covered slips, lifts, floating docks and gangways, swim decks, shoreline walkways, and repair or replacement of what you already have.
Covered boat docks and boat slips on Lake Granbury
A covered slip is a steel structure standing in the water with a metal roof over it and an open slip underneath, framed so a boat lift can hang off the beams. That means the structure has to be set out and sized before anything else happens.
Cody reads your shoreline and your water depth first, then tells you what will actually fit — including when the answer is smaller than what you had in mind.
Boat lifts, dock whips and jet ski mooring
Lift hardware — the winch motor, the cable, the sheaves — mounts to the dock structure, so what you plan to keep on the water changes how the dock gets built. Dock whips and a mooring spot for a jet ski are part of the same conversation.
One customer asked for exactly that combination:
“a place to moor our boat and dock whips for a jet ski”
Excerpt from Jennifer M.'s Google review, which Google shows only part of. Jennifer M., Google
Floating docks and gangways
A floating dock sits on flotation tubs under the deck, so it rides the lake level instead of fighting it. Ours are built with composite decking and aluminum pipe handrails, with pipe sleeves set through the deck.
Getting to it is the other half of the job. An aluminum gangway runs from the bank onto the dock, and where the water is a long way out we have built catwalks with picket railing both sides running dead straight off a low shoreline.
Swim decks and cable railing
A swim deck is a place to get in and out of the lake: composite decking, black aluminum posts, horizontal stainless cable railing, and a stainless ladder dropping into the water.
Cable railing is the detail worth asking about. It holds the line a timber rail would, and because the infill is thin cable rather than pickets you keep the view across the water from a chair.
Shoreline walkways and lakeside decks
Composite walkways run from the lawn along the shoreline out to the dock, or to a landing, or to a small roofed platform with chairs on it and a ladder into the water beside it. Where the walk down to the water is the awkward part of the property, this is the part that fixes it.
To be straight with you about one thing: some of our walkways run alongside stone retaining walls that were already there. We build the walkway. The wall is not our work — do not look at these photos and assume shoreline stabilization is part of the job.
Dock repair, re-decking and replacement
Old docks come apart in a few predictable places — the decking goes first, then the frame under it. Sometimes the fix is swapping the deck and the handrail. Sometimes the honest answer is that the structure is done and a new dock should go in instead.
Cody will tell you which one yours is before you spend anything, and if it is a replacement he will say so rather than selling you a repair twice.
Ladders, cleats, rod holders, steps, handrails, decking swaps — if it sits on the water or gets you to it, ask.
About permits. Lake Granbury is a Brazos River Authority reservoir, and shoreline construction on it is governed by the Authority, not by us. We are not going to tell you on a website whose name goes on which piece of paper for your particular site — call Cody and he will explain the ins and outs of your project before you commit to anything.
Recent Waters Edge dock work
Six photographs of our own jobs, captioned as what they actually show.
Which one of those is your job?
Tell us what you want on your water and Cody will come look at it, say what your site will and won't allow, and put a bid in writing.