Basketball Court Contractor in Cottonwood Heights, UT
In Cottonwood Heights the digging is the job. The ground is gravel and boulders in every size, rock comes out of a court excavation in quantity, and where it goes has to be worked out before anything starts.
Excavation, and getting the rock out
This is some of the hardest ground to excavate on the Wasatch Front. It is not only that it digs slowly — it is the volume of material that comes out, and large rock at that.
Haul-off access has to be planned in advance. On a property where the court sits behind an existing wall or fence, that is a real constraint rather than a detail.
Working inside existing walls without damaging them
Many courts here go into a space already enclosed by a stone wall or fencing. The equipment has to get in and out without touching it, which shapes the whole sequence.
It also sets the finish problem: getting concrete all the way up to a wall and having it look like it belongs there. A wall is unforgiving, and any gap or mismatch is the thing you notice.
A walled court has nowhere to shed to
Water is the second thing a wall creates. A court enclosed on one or more sides has no obvious direction for runoff, so drainage has to be worked out before anything is poured rather than solved afterwards.
That is easy to design in and expensive to retrofit.
Lines that do not fight each other
On a shared court, painting the basketball lines in light grey rather than white lets them read when you want them without competing with the pickleball layout.
Small choice, visible every time you look at the court.
Our work in Cottonwood Heights
Cottonwood Heights Multi-Sport Court
A court built inside an existing stone wall, which sets two problems at once. The first is the finish. Getting concrete all the way up to a wall and having it look like it belongs there is harder than it sounds — a wall is unforgiving, and any gap or mismatch is the thing you notice. This one runs right up to it, hoop set, with the whole space inside the wall used. The second is water. A walled court has nowhere obvious to shed to, so the drainage has to be worked out before anything is poured rather than solved afterwards. Then there is the digging, which in Cottonwood Heights is the hard part of almost any job. The ground is gravel and boulders in every size, and rock comes out of a court excavation in quantity — so haul-off access has to be planned in advance, and the equipment has to work inside existing fencing without damaging it on the way in or out. The surface is sky blue zones with light blue inside and grass green around the outside. Pickleball lines are white; the basketball lines are light grey, so they are there when you want them without competing with the pickleball layout.
Questions we get asked in Cottonwood Heights
Why is excavation so expensive here?
The ground is gravel and boulders in every size. It digs slowly and produces a lot of material, including large rock that has to be hauled away.
Can you build inside my existing walls?
Yes, and it is common here. Access for equipment and for haul-off is the thing to plan first, along with keeping the existing wall undamaged.
How do you drain a court that is walled in?
By designing it before the pour — a wall is the one direction water cannot go, so the fall and the outlet have to be decided up front.