Onyx Builders LLC.

Onyx Builders is a new registration with the state, and Alyssa Black and Nicholas Black are listed as its principals. The company's own site says the people behind it bring well over a decade of construction experience, which is the business's claim rather than something the state record shows. The work is residential: outbuildings on rural lots, decks off the back of a house, and cedar and other fencing. Colbert, Chattaroy, Deer Park and the north Spokane edge of that radius are full of acreage where a pole barn or shop building makes sense. For a homeowner, this is a small, locally run outfit suited to a single outdoor project, such as a cedar privacy fence, a new deck or a pole barn for equipment and hay. It is a residential builder, not a bidder on commercial or public work. A homeowner who wants a long, documented history under this name should know the business itself is new, even if the claimed experience behind it is older. Outdoor building in Spokane follows the weather. Decks and fences crowd into late spring and summer, once the ground thaws and dries, and builders' calendars fill early. Pole barns depend on dry ground for posts and site access, so late summer and early fall are popular, before freezes and snow load become a concern. Planning over the winter, with drawings, site questions and county permits for larger outbuildings sorted out first, puts a homeowner near the front of the line when the season opens.