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Front courtyard in panels
DrivewaysLarge poured panels rather than units, separated by dark gravel joints that take water down through the surface rather than off the edge. The outer edge is cut to a curve against the lawn and butted into the existing drive.
Travertine pool deck
PatiosTravertine in a French pattern of four repeating sizes, run to the coping and cut in around a raised wall and a flight of stone steps. Shot before the surround was planted.
Pool deck going down
PatiosThe field laid out from the pool edge outward, bare bedding where the next courses go, and the river rock bed already formed along the boundary. The steel frames in the last entry on this page are the same job.
Grid patio after rain
PatiosLarge gray units set square with an open gravel joint between them, running from the house wall out to a bed edged by a horizontal cedar screen. The water is sitting in the joints rather than on the units.
Side yard to the pool
WalkwaysA run of large set pads through artificial turf down the side of a pool, with brick columns carrying a screen along the property line and string lights run between them.
Pool deck and putting green
Pool decksA banded concrete deck run around three sides of a pool and set into turf, with a putting green taking the rest of the yard. Umbrellas and loungers in place on the day it was shot.
Cedar privacy run
FencesA full-height cedar privacy run, boards butted, with a cap and trim along the top that keeps water off the end grain. Shot down the line, which is where a fence shows whether it was set to a string.
Horizontal screen
ScreensA shorter, more deliberate piece of the same trade: horizontal cedar slats on a frame, run along the edge of the grid patio further up this page to close off the bed behind it.
Wall and columns after dark
WallsA raised wall spilling into the pool, stone columns either side carrying planted bowls, and steps cut down to the deck. Lit at night, which is when this kind of wall is actually looked at.
Steel shade frames
PergolasThe same job as “Pool deck going down” above, closer in: three frames stood over the deck, squared to each other and to the wall behind. The posts went in while the deck was still open, which is the only tidy way to do it.
Breaking out the old slab
DemolitionA track loader with a hydraulic breaker on the arm, and the run of broken concrete it has just taken out lying beside it. The exposed aggregate surface it is standing on is the part that stayed.
Grade, pipe and laser
DrainageA front yard with the sod down on one half and the other half still open: pipe laid out ready to go in, a rotary laser on a tripod setting the falls, and cones out at the walk.
Shop and apron
Metal buildingsA metal shop with a roll-up door, and the concrete apron run out from it far enough to get a trailer in. The building and the concrete under it are the same job.
About these captions
No prices, no timelines, no names.
A photograph cannot tell you what a job cost or how long it took, and nothing on record says either. So this page does not guess. What it can tell you is what was built and how it was laid, and that is what the captions do.
There is no before and after pair anywhere here, and there will not be a fabricated one. A comparison needs two frames shot from the same spot, and every finished photograph in this set was taken after the crew left. What the set does have, which is rarer, is the middle of three jobs: the demolition, the grading and the formwork. Those are on the home page.