Seattle’s Zaytura went from hanging wallpaper to building decks on rooftops
Farkhati Ashurov, a civil engineer from a family of engineers, started Zaytura in 2024 doing handyman jobs and has steered it up onto Seattle’s flat roofs.
Seattle, WA
On a flat Seattle roof, a Zaytura deck barely touches the roof. In one of the company’s project photos, squares of honey-colored wood sit on black plastic pedestals, each one stamped “BISON” and set on a square pad on the gray roof surface. The pedestals adjust in height, so the finished deck comes out level. Rain drains away underneath it, and the waterproofing below stays protected and within reach.
That kind of work is now the specialty of ZAYTURA LLC, which also goes by Zaytura Construction. Its owner is Farkhati Ashurov, known to his customers as Farkhat. He describes himself as a civil engineer with more than 15 years of experience. On how he got into the trade, he writes only that he comes from two generations of a family of civil engineers.
The company he registered in Seattle did not start on rooftops. Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries lists ZAYTURA LLC as a general construction contractor, with Ashurov as its principal, effective Dec. 5, 2024. The first reviews, from late 2024 and early 2025, read mostly like a handyman’s work log: TVs mounted, ceiling fans hung, drywall patched, wallpaper put up. Within a year the same business was building decks on rooftops, and it has not given up the small jobs that got it started.
The early jobs were small. One couple used the company three times in three months to put up four televisions, several large pictures, a very heavy mirror and grab bars for a bathtub. A landlord with a rental in Kirkland hired Zaytura to patch drywall opened up for a pipe repair, a job that took several visits because the mud had to dry before it could be sanded and textured. The same visits added an outlet for an LED mirror, a bathroom vent fan, a kitchen faucet and a glass sliding door over the tub. Another customer listed wallpapering, plumbing, electrical work and flooring among the jobs the company had done. In West Seattle, Ashurov and his crew tore the old tile out of a bathroom and redid the whole room.
Wallpaper turns up again and again. One of the first reviews, posted the same day the contractor license took effect, came from a homeowner whose house was about 100 years old and whose walls were not straight. Not a single piece was easy, the customer wrote, but he made it look easy.
The care shows in the details customers bother to write down. A homeowner who hired the company to install a large hexagon tile backsplash noticed how carefully the installer lined the tiles up around five outlet cutouts. The customer asked for twice as many cuts so the row along the bottom of the window would be all whole hexagons, and got them. The customer bought the materials and the installer brought the tools. The job took two days.
He also works fast. A homeowner who wanted a 39-foot fence across the front of the house got a quote quickly by message, along with a computer-generated picture of how the fence would look before and after. The price held after an on-site walkthrough, and again when the customer picked a style the customer had found online. They settled the plan on a Wednesday. Ashurov started Thursday and finished Friday.
The bigger jobs came quickly. One customer who first hired the company for a few minor repairs later brought it a backyard deck that the review describes as dangerously unstable. What began as a repair became a rebuild with a new roof over the deck that still lets the sun through. Ashurov helped choose the materials, the layout and the colors, and handled the permits. Another family credited him with the design, the permits and the build of a new deck that passed its inspection.
Rooftops put that training to work. The company gives three reasons for using pedestal systems on flat roofs: they make a level surface, leave a path for drainage underneath and keep the waterproofing reachable for later repairs. One homeowner described the job in a builder’s language: composite decking boards set flush with a walk-on skylight, on wood framing that rests on Bison pedestals over a TPO membrane. The same review credits Ashurov with coming up with solutions on the spot.
The surfaces vary. A post on the company’s Instagram shows IPE, sold as Brazilian walnut, cut into deck tiles and set on Bison pedestals. The company’s list of services now runs from custom wood and composite decks to cable railings, porcelain and concrete pavers, natural stone and the support grids that sit beneath them.
Ashurov does not work alone. Customers name Ibrahim beside him on several jobs, including a deck-and-railing project that one review says came with plenty of custom hurdles. The company works across Seattle, Shoreline, Kirkland, Bellevue, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Bothell and Redmond.
Not every job is a deck. In 2026 one customer called him to replace a door; he helped pick it out, put it in quickly and cleaned up some extra molding while he was there. Another was still hiring him to hang wallpaper.
Ashurov’s advice to anyone hiring a contractor starts with the same thing he says first about himself. When you hire for a project, he writes, it is very important to look at the contractor’s background, education and experience.