What we build
Eleven services, grouped the way they are actually built — what goes in the ground, what you live on top of it, and what frames the space around it.
Most contractor websites list services alphabetically. That is fine for a directory and useless for planning, because it hides the thing that actually governs your project: the order the work has to happen in.
So the eleven services below are grouped into four sets. Hardscape is everything with an excavated base under it — the layer every other outdoor element eventually sits on or beside. Outdoor living covers the structures and fittings that turn a paved area into somewhere you spend evenings, and those have footings and utilities that must be settled before the paving goes down. Yard and exterior is the frame: the ground cover, the boundary, and the openings between inside and out. Complete projects is what happens when several of the above are done together as one job.
If you already know which service you need, go straight to it. If you are weighing up two or three, the combining services section further down is the part worth reading first.
Category 01
The excavated, compacted and paved surfaces. These carry the loads, set the levels and decide where water goes, which is why they are almost always the first thing scheduled and the hardest thing to change later.
The layer underneath most outdoor projects. Excavation, compacted sub-base, bedding, edge restraint and jointing — the parts nobody photographs, and the parts that decide whether a surface still sits flat in a few years.
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The outdoor room you actually use. Sizing it around dining, lounging and the route between house and garden matters more than square footage — an oversized slab with nowhere to sit is a common and expensive mistake.
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The first thing anyone sees and the surface under the heaviest loads on the property. Pattern, edge restraint and base depth are all specified differently once a vehicle turns on a surface rather than walks across it.
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Wet feet, bare feet and pool chemistry make this the most demanding surface on a South Florida property. Slip resistance, how hot the material gets at midday and the coping detail at the water's edge outrank colour every time.
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Shade and function. These are what make a paved area somewhere you spend an evening rather than somewhere you walk across, and they are the elements with footings and utilities that have to be positioned before paving.
Counters, built-in grills, storage — and the services feeding them. Where power, water and gas run is a hardscape decision, not a kitchen decision, because those routes pass underneath whatever you pave.
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Shade that defines a room without enclosing it. A pergola is often what makes the difference between a patio used at seven in the evening and one used at two in the afternoon.
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Denser shade and a distinctly South Florida character. Position and footings are settled early — a hut dropped in after the paving is finished means cutting back into a surface that was just completed.
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The frame around everything else: what covers the ground between the hard surfaces, what marks the boundary, and what separates inside from outside.
Green year-round with no mowing and no irrigation. In a climate with our rainfall, what happens under the turf — the base and how it drains — matters at least as much as the blade you choose.
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Boundary, privacy and the visual frame around everything you have built. Line and height are worth settling early, because a fence changes how enclosed a finished space feels far more than people expect.
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The connection between inside and out. Widening a glazed opening changes how an outdoor room gets used, because the two spaces stop being separate places you move between.
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When several of the services above are done together, they stop being separate jobs and become one project with one sequence, one levels plan and one point of accountability.
A coordinated transformation rather than a list of bookings: paving, a shade structure, a kitchen, turf and a boundary planned together, sequenced in one order and finished as one space. It is the difference between a yard that looks assembled and one that looks designed.
Most of the value is invisible. Levels resolve once instead of three times. Drainage is planned across the whole site rather than surface by surface. Footings and service routes are set before anything is paved over.
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Nobody sets out to hire one contractor for the sake of it. The reasons people end up grouping work are practical, and they show up in the same four places every time.
Footings for a pergola or tiki hut, and the power, water or gas feeding an outdoor kitchen, all sit below or behind finished surfaces. Deciding on them after paving means cutting back into it. Deciding on them before costs nothing extra.
A patio, a pool deck and a turf lawn that meet each other have to agree on falls and finished heights. Planned together, water is directed once. Planned separately, you inherit whatever the previous surface decided.
Paving, coping, structure timber and fence line are seen together from the back door, not one at a time. Choosing them in the same conversation is the only reliable way to end up with a space that looks composed.
Excavation, machinery access, protection of existing planting and site clean-down are repeated for every separate contract. Doing related work in one visit removes that repetition — and the repeated disruption that comes with it.
Phasing is normal, and often sensible. What matters is that the phases are planned against each other, so that phase one does not have to be partially undone to make phase two possible. If you know a pergola is likely in two years, that is worth saying now, even if you are only paving today.
How it runs
The same five stages whether the job is one driveway or a whole backyard. The difference is how much gets decided in stage two.
Not the specification — the problem. The yard bakes in the afternoon, the driveway lets the house down, there is nowhere to put twelve people. The brief follows from that.
Measuring the space, reading the falls, checking what is already in the ground and looking at how you move between house and garden. Material options are shown against the actual light and the actual surroundings.
What is included, in what order, with the materials named. If the work is phased, the phases are set out here, along with what each one leaves ready for the next.
Excavation and base first, services and footings before anything covers them, then surfaces, then structures, then the soft finishes. Site cleaned down as work progresses rather than at the end.
Walking the finished space together against what was approved, and going through how the materials that were installed should be looked after.
Where we work
Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, from a base in Davie. These are the markets we are asked for most often.
Before you enquire
Single services are normal work. Plenty of projects are one driveway or one patio and nothing else. The reason the services are grouped on this page is that some of them share a base, a levels plan or a drainage route — so if two of them are already on your list, it is worth knowing that before either one starts.
Anything that goes under or through the ground comes before anything that sits on it. Footings for a pergola or tiki hut, and the services feeding an outdoor kitchen, are decided before paving is laid — because reaching them afterwards means lifting the surface you just paid for.
Often, yes. Whether existing paving can be extended or built onto depends on how it was originally installed, what the base looks like underneath, and whether the levels still work for whatever you want to add. It is one of the first things looked at during the on-site visit, because the answer changes the scope significantly.
By where the surface is and how it will be used, before appearance enters the conversation. A pool surround is judged on how it behaves wet and how hot it gets underfoot; a driveway is judged on how it takes turning loads. Colour, format and pattern are then chosen from whatever passes those tests — which is usually still a wide field.
That is a normal starting point, and a better one than arriving with a half-formed specification. Most people describe a problem rather than a solution: the yard is unusable in the afternoon, the driveway looks tired, there is nowhere to seat everyone. The options follow from the problem.
Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, working from Davie. Parkland, Davie, Weston, Plantation, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs and Boca Raton are the markets we are asked for most often — the service areas page has the full list. If your address is nearby but not listed, call and ask.
Tell us what is not working outside. A designer will visit, measure, and walk you through the options that actually suit the site — with no obligation.