Our Projects
A selection of the courts, fences and slabs we have built — the ones we had a camera out for. They are grouped by the town they are in, because what a job takes changes with where it is — the grade, the access, the soil and what has to come out first. Give us a Call (801) 404-2110 and we will walk your site.
We build through the year. Court surfacing is the one part that waits for the weather — acrylic needs summer heat to cure properly between coats — but decking, railings, fencing, concrete and stonework do not, and tile courts go down in any conditions because the lines come pre-painted.
Bear Lake
Bear Lake Multi-Sport Court
The view is the reason anyone builds up here, and the slope that gives you the view is the problem. Getting a court flat enough to drain properly on a mountainside above Bear Lake meant moving a great deal of dirt — and building the pad up only improved what you are looking at while you play. Bear Lake is a long way from where we are based, and the season up there is shorter than it is in the valley. Paint needs warmth to dry between coats, and above the lake you get that from late spring to late summer and not much either side of it. This one was finished just before the cold set in. The owner made the right call on fencing. On a slope that is not decoration — without it you spend the afternoon walking downhill after the ball. Black vinyl chain link runs around the court; it sits against the view far better than galvanised and leaves the whole thing looking finished. Height is worth thinking about: four feet is about the minimum worth having for pickleball, ten feet behind a hoop keeps basketballs in, and ten feet right round a court perched next to a drop is what actually stops the chasing. A sky blue surround with navy zones and a light grey kitchen, white lines for pickleball and a minimal free-throw mark for basketball. The hoop is a Dominator 72-inch glass backboard on an adjustable mount, so it can come down while the kids are still learning, on a padded base. The net rolls away — which suits a court that gets switched between the two sports often.
Bountiful
Bountiful Pickleball and Basketball Court
Bright but minimal was the brief, and on a court carrying two sports that mostly comes down to what you leave off. The free-throw line is dashed and lines up to the hoop, the pickleball lines are full, and nothing else is painted on. Reaching the site meant crossing a lot of lawn with excavation equipment, so protecting the grass on the way in and out shaped how the work was staged. The surface is two-tone blue — BYU blue and navy — with a light grey non-volley zone and white lines. The hoop is a Dominator with a glass backboard on a padded base pole. We also built in a stone bench under the trees where the shade already falls, so players waiting a turn have somewhere to sit. This one stays busy. The kids are spread across different sports, but pickleball is the one the whole family plays.
Bountiful Deck and Railings
Uneven ground is what decides a deck like this. Set it at one height and the skirting runs out of ground on one side and floats above it on the other. Set the footings deeper and it reads as finished all the way round. That depth does a second job. The soil here is clay, and where the terrain is uneven the frost line is uneven with it — so the footings have to go deep enough that no part of the deck is sitting above where frost reaches. A deck that heaves at one corner has been built to the ground rather than through it. Height was the other decision. Raising it enough to see out past the neighbouring properties turned a back door into somewhere worth sitting. Composite decking with black metal railing and post caps, and composite fascia skirting the full run.
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.
Heber City
Heber City Pickleball Court
A court up the canyon with the views to go with it, and the owners wanted fencing that belonged to the landscape instead of fighting it. Cedar posts with black vinyl-coated chain link between them does that. The timber reads as part of the setting, the black mesh more or less disappears against the trees, and together they still keep the ball in. Forest green outside with a light green interior, on Douglas posts. The drainage border around the outside is bark rather than gravel, with bushes planted along it, so the court sits inside the planting rather than on top of it. Up here the warm season is shorter and the elevation higher, which narrows the window for paint to cure. On a court like this that governs when the work can happen more than anything else does.
Herriman
South Herriman Bench Pickleball Court
They had just finished building the house and wanted the court in before the landscaping went down — partly so the space did not get used for something else, and partly because of the view from it. A bench lot makes that harder than it sounds. Access was tight, and the only way to fit a full-size court and still leave a lawn was to hold the slope back on the house side and build the far end up to meet it. We put in a rock wall to retain the slope, brought the low end up to grade, and relocated the sprinkler lines that ran through the footprint — repositioned so they water the lawn and not the court. The finished court is 30 by 60 feet overall with a 20 by 44 foot playing area, in a reversed color scheme: blue playing surface, green non-volley zone, light grey surround, white lines. A single light pole lets them play after dark, and the long view west across the valley is still open.
Herriman Composite Fence and Gate
They wanted a fence company that could handle the ground here, and on this lot that turned out to be the whole job. There is rock under the soil in Herriman — boulders big enough that a post hole finds one and simply stops. Without the equipment to break rock you end up putting posts wherever they will go, and the line wanders to match. Every post on this one went where it was meant to go, so the fence runs true. What you are looking at is the composite fence part-built, with the metal posts set. It stands taller across the front and steps down toward the back to line up with the storage the owner keeps in this corner. A fence does two jobs there — it marks the boundary, and it puts the things you have to keep somewhere out of sight.
Highland
Highland Pickleball Court
Another narrow space, and another way to solve it. Cinderblock retaining walls are about as narrow as poured concrete, so they hand the court back the same width a concrete wall would. Walls always raise the drainage question, though. Water has to go somewhere, and a wall is the one direction it cannot. Either the court slopes away from it, or you build a drainage gap between the court and the wall. Here the drainage already sat on the opposite side, so sloping away was the simpler answer. Underneath is clay, so the dig went deep — enough for drainage, enough base to carry the foundation, and enough depth to get below frost. Full-size pickleball with a roller net. They use the space for more than pickleball and take the net off often, and a roller means no open sleeves left in the slab to fill with water.
Holladay
Holladay Multi-Sport Pickleball and Basketball Court
A narrow strip beside the pool house, and the job was to get as much court as possible out of it. Two things bought width. The court was built up to sit level with the pool house rather than following the existing grade, and the far side was retained — which pushes the edge outward instead of losing it to a slope. Building up did a second job as well. There is heavy clay here, and clay is what heaves when it freezes. Raising the base lifts the slab clear of it, so the court sits on solid ground rather than on something that moves with the season. Grass green outside, sky blue zones, grey kitchen.
Kaysville
West Kaysville Vinyl Privacy Fence
Ground that dips and rolls is what makes a fence look wrong. The panels are all the same size, so if the footings simply follow the ground, the top line follows it too and every dip in the yard shows up along the fence. Here the footing depths vary along the run, so the fence comes out level across the top whatever the ground is doing underneath it. They go deep for a second reason as well. Posts move if the soil lets them, and depth is what keeps a fence standing straight in a few years rather than only on the day it goes in.
Lehi
Lehi Indoor Basketball Court
Indoor courts are still courts. Different materials and a different finish — a gloss you would never put outside — but the same work. Paint and polish go on in separate layers, which is what makes an indoor floor last. The hoops are wall-mounted rather than on posts: it keeps the floor clear, gives back the run-off space a pole would take up, and with wall pads it is safer to play hard towards. Black lines, full basketball key and blocks. The other thing about working indoors is that the conditions are the same every time. No waiting on weather, no watching the forecast for a window to cure in.
Lehi Indoor Pickleball and Basketball Court
This one went into the shop out the back, which had room for a proper sporting area. The surface is outdoor acrylic, used indoors deliberately. Court acrylic carries sand through the mix, and that is what gives the grit underfoot — the traction you want when you change direction. A smooth indoor finish does not give you that. Thirty by sixty, with a half basketball court laid sideways across the pickleball court. Sky blue outside, navy zones, light grey kitchen. Full pickleball lines, and a dashed free-throw line and three-point arc for basketball — enough to play, not so much that it clutters the pickleball layout. Wall-mounted hoop, with the wall padding framed in and the pads to follow. Indoors also means we can build through the off season. Where the temperature can be held steady enough for paint to cure, the weather stops deciding when the work happens.
Mapleton
Mapleton Pickleball Court
They wanted a court that would last and that would not look like an intrusion on the rest of the property — something that sat with the landscaping rather than on top of it. Which set the hard part: the court had to go in behind established planting, and the planting had to survive the process. Getting excavation equipment back there without tearing up what was already in the ground shaped the whole sequence — excavate, pour and paint, with the beds still intact at the end of it. The court is built a little larger than standard, so there is real room to chase a ball past the line instead of running out of surface. The colors are the combination we get asked for most: a light grey apron, grass green non-volley zone, navy blue playing surface and white lines. There are no net sleeves set in the slab. This owner wanted a mobile net instead, so it lifts off and the court goes back to being open space for whatever else is happening that day.
Deck and Railing
A new house that wanted a deck and a matching patio deck, with a hot tub on the lower one. Both are composite rather than timber, which is the longer-lived choice, and the wrought iron railing carries across the deck, the stairs and the patio so the whole thing reads as one piece of work rather than three. The ground decided the patio. This is not the flat part of Mapleton — closer to the mountain it rolls, and the patio sits across a section that is not level. Rather than fight that, part of the patio deck is carried on legs, which bridges the uneven ground and keeps the finished surface flat. Most of Mapleton is flatter than this. It changes as you get up towards the mountains.
Mapleton Vinyl Fence and RV Gates
A vinyl fence dividing the front of the property from the back, with gates wide enough to get a fifth wheel through. The useful part is that there are two. Wide utility gates for the trailer, and a separate personal gate alongside them — so getting into the back yard does not mean swinging the big ones open every time. It is a small decision that you notice every day afterwards. Tan vinyl throughout.
Orem
Orem Pickleball Court
A low corner of the lot with the slope running the wrong way, and standing water across it whenever the rain came hard — on first look, the most difficult place on the property to put a court. We brought in rock to build the pad up, which lifted it clear of the wet, gave it a solid foundation, and left it sitting better in the yard than it would have at the original grade. What you are looking at here is the court mid-build: the lines and the second coat are not on yet. Paint goes down in layers, each one left to dry before the next goes over it, and that is what makes the finish last. The slab carries a fall slight enough that you will not notice it and enough that water leaves instead of pooling. Dominator lights at the corners, so play does not stop at dusk.
Orem Tennis Court
A full-size tennis court, sixty feet by a hundred and twenty. At that size it has to be post-tension — a conventionally reinforced slab that large will crack. It is a six-inch slab with a twelve-inch thickened edge around the outside, and cables tensioned in both directions across the court, each stressed to 33 kips. That is what holds a slab this size in compression and keeps it from cracking as it ages. The site was the other half of the job. It was full of mature trees — firs among them — and trees mean roots. The excavation had to be thorough and deep enough to take the roots out with them, because roots left beside a court will lift it later. Traditional colours — grass green outside, navy inside. A ten-foot fence right the way round, which is what a tennis ball needs, with proper gates rather than the open corners a pickleball court can get away with. Lighting is on full twenty-foot poles aimed downward, so the court is bright to play on without throwing light across the neighbourhood.
Payson
Payson Multi-Sport Pickleball and Basketball Court
A large family with grandchildren who come over often, and what they wanted was a double court — two pickleball courts side by side with a full basketball court over the top. Seventy feet by seventy. At that size the slab has to be post-tension. A conventionally reinforced pad that big will crack; post-tensioning holds the whole slab in compression so it does not. The ground helped here — it sits high on the shelf of West Mountain outside Payson, on foundations that were already built up and solid. The fencing is worth explaining, because it is not the same height all the way round and it should not be. Four feet runs the outside, which is right for keeping pickleball in. Behind each hoop there is a twenty-foot run at ten feet tall. Missed shots go backwards, and that one change takes most of the ball-chasing out of a court this size. We recommend it anywhere there is a hoop. The net posts take removable sleeves, so the pickleball nets lift out when they want the basketball court whole. A sand dune border with navy zones and a royal blue kitchen, inside black vinyl chain link. The hoop is a MegaSlam — built to be dunked on and hung from, 72-inch full glass backboard, lifetime warranty — on Douglas posts and nets. We fit both MegaSlam and Dominator, and the difference is material before it is anything else. MegaSlam hoops and Douglas posts are steel; Dominator is aluminium. Dominator is a great deal of hoop for the money and it is what most people choose. Steel costs considerably more and is what you choose when you want the best of it. On this court they went steel throughout.
Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Grove Multi-Sport Court
They wanted to actually use their back yard. The space was tight, and they wanted a full-size court anyway. It fits, but only just. A short concrete retaining wall holds one end, the court butts to the fence down one side, and the far side carries just enough width for the hoop and a drainage margin. The slab runs a very slight fall into that margin, so water leaves the basketball end instead of standing on it. Net sleeves are set into the concrete. The net drops in for pickleball and lifts out for basketball, which is what makes this two sports rather than one sport with someone else's lines painted around it. Thirty by sixty feet overall, twenty by forty-four playing. Red non-volley zone, navy blue zones, grass green apron and white lines, with a minimal free-throw mark and a three-point line carried across the full width — enough for a wide half-court game.
Provo
Provo Multi-Sport Pickleball and Basketball Court
A company court, built for employees to use, and wanted on a short timeframe. Double pickleball with a full basketball court over it, on a post-tension slab — the same reason as any court this size, which is that a conventionally reinforced slab that big will crack. The fencing is not one height, and the surroundings are why. Four feet on the side people come in from, where you want it low and open. Ten feet on every other side, because there is a busy road one way, parking the other, and houses next door. A ball that leaves this court becomes somebody else's problem, so it does not leave. Douglas roll-away nets and MegaSlam hoops inside black vinyl-coated chain link, with benches and patio space along the side so people watching or waiting a turn have somewhere to be. The site had to give up its old trees and their roots first, and the soil was compacted afterwards to give the slab a solid base.
Provo Commercial Deck, Hot Tub and Fire Pit
A whole outdoor space for a property let as a short-term rental — not a fire pit with things placed around it, but a deck, a hot tub, a fire pit, steps, a flagstone entryway and the posts for the covered area, designed together. The deck is composite and runs at more than one level, with the transitions and stairs built into it. The fire pit sits down into the deck surface, the hot tub into the raised section by the doors, and the flat rock entryway runs up to meet it. A hot tub is the part that changes what happens underneath. The water has to be drained deliberately away from the property rather than left to find its own way out, and the pipework has to be insulated — Provo's clay and its freeze-thaw cycle will find anything that is not. The photographs are winter: bare trees, snow at the edge of the deck, the pool covered.
Riverton
Riverton Multi-Sport Court
They wanted a court that would still be a court in ten years. In this ground that means going deeper than you strictly have to. Riverton sits on clay, and clay moves — it swells as it takes on water and drops again as it dries, and a slab laid on top of it moves with it until it cracks. Frost makes the same thing worse over a winter. So the foundation goes deep enough to get below where frost reaches, with extra base material under it, giving the slab something stable to sit on instead of ground that is going to shift under it. None of that is visible in the finished court. That is rather the point of paying for it. Above ground: a light grey surround with navy zones and a grass green kitchen, white lines for pickleball and a full basketball key. A Dominator hoop, and Douglas posts for the net — a step up from standard.
Salem
Salem Pickleball Court and Concrete Landscaping
This one is a whole back yard in concrete — curving walks, patios and a pickleball court, laid out as a single design rather than a court dropped into a lawn. The water table is high here, and that governs everything underneath. The answer is to build up, and to put enough free-draining base material under the slab that water still has somewhere to go when the ground around it is saturated. That matters more than it sounds. Acrylic paint is durable, but it breaks down against water, and a slab that stays damp works on the coating from underneath as much as from above. The longer a pad holds moisture, the shorter the life of the finish on top of it. Base material is what keeps the concrete dry enough for the paint to last. The video here is the prep before the pour — vapour barrier down and the rebar tied, ready for concrete.
Salt Lake City
The Avenues Multi-Sport Court, Salt Lake City
They wanted a pickleball court on a slope, and the slope was steep. On ground like that the retaining wall is the whole design problem: every inch it takes up in width is width the court does not get. A rock wall would have eaten the space. A concrete wall does the same job in a much narrower footprint, and that difference is what let this come out full size instead of compromised. Grass green outside with forest green zones and kitchen, white lines, pickleball only. No fence on this one. We recommended it and they may add it later — on a retained court above a drop, fencing is what keeps a game going instead of sending someone down the hill after the ball. Four feet is enough for most pickleball courts; next to a real drop-off, six or eight feet saves a great deal of walking. The ends matter most, because that is where balls are lost.
Spanish Fork
Spanish Fork Backyard Basketball Court
They had a slab and an old pole hoop, and wanted a court painted onto what was already there. Old concrete will not take paint on its own. It has to be prepped and cleaned thoroughly and then resurfaced, or the coating never properly bonds and it lifts later. That preparation is most of the work on a job like this, and it is what decides whether the finish lasts. The lines were measured off the hoop already standing rather than the other way round, and the layout makes the most of a limited space: navy blue surround, grass green key, a three-point line set above it, white lines throughout. Freeze-thaw is hard on concrete here, and the acrylic coating buys the slab life — it is protection as much as colour. Left bare long enough, concrete begins to chip, and once that starts the repair gets progressively harder, to the point where replacing the slab costs less than continuing to patch it.
Spanish Fork Tiled Basketball Sport Court
Tile is the answer when the weather will not cooperate. It goes down in any conditions and the lines come pre-painted, so a court can be assembled at a time of year when paint would never cure. The trade-off is underfoot. Tile is polymer and it does not give you the grit acrylic does — court acrylic has sand through it, and that is what you feel when you push off. Tile is smoother than that. It costs more than acrylic to put down. It is also cheaper to own: if a tile is damaged you replace the tile, rather than resurfacing a court.
Wood Exterior Staircase
They wanted stairs and they had a budget. We recommended composite — it lasts longer and asks less of you — but composite costs more, the budget was the constraint, and so we built in timber and told them what that means. What it means here is maintenance. Hot dry summers pull the moisture out of exterior timber, and wood stairs in Spanish Fork only reach their full life if they are kept treated. Left alone they will not. Matching handrails run both sides down to the concrete walk, with a landing at the top meeting the door. Built in July 2014 — the oldest job on this site.
Springville
Springville East Bench Multi-Sport Court
A couple who wanted somewhere to play with their grandchildren — basketball and pickleball both, on ground that could still be a patio when nobody was playing on it. They already had the slab. It had been down for years and was still in good enough condition to keep, so instead of tearing it out we repaired the concrete and worked with what was there. Lines went on in white for both sports. We installed a Dominator hoop — glass backboard on a padded base pole. No lighting was needed here: the lights already on the house reach the court, so evening play was covered without putting a pole in.
Springville Concrete Basketball Court
A young family with a lot of kids, a fixed budget, and one slab that had to do three jobs — basketball, somewhere to put chairs out, and a patio. So we left the concrete bare and put the lines straight onto it: blue for pickleball, white for basketball, no base coat. That kept it inside the budget, and it was the better call regardless — the kids are on it with bikes constantly, and a coated surface takes marks from that in a way plain concrete does not. They had already ordered a hoop before they called us, so we installed the one they had rather than selling them another.
Springville City Tennis Courts
These courts were already here and in poor shape. This was a repair, not a new build. The concrete had trouble in several places. Some of it had sunk and been layered over at some point; the significant cracks were filled and the surface resurfaced to give the courts another life rather than replacing them outright. Drainage had failed in places and was holding water, so the slope was put back where it had gone. The fencing came out, but not all of it. Where old poles could be kept, they were cut down and new poles slid inside them, so the parts already set in concrete stayed in use. The light poles were replaced and upgraded while reusing as much of the existing wiring as possible. Resurfaced in traditional tennis colours. The clay underneath is probably why they needed the work. These courts were built thick — thicker than you would expect — and clay is still what moves under them over the years.
