Patio and Hardscape Contractor in Long Beach, MS
A patio tells you faster than anything else in the yard whether the ground underneath it was handled properly. On this coast a bad one shows up as settling, standing water, and pavers that have started to walk away from each other.
Paver Patios, Retaining Walls, and Driveways Built for Ground That Moves and Rain That Arrives All at Once
Outdoor Solutions builds paver patios, retaining walls, walkways, and driveways across Harrison, Hancock, and Jackson counties.
It goes on the same contract as the pool, or it stands on its own.
What a Hardscape Contractor Should Be Able to Build You
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The main event on most of these projects. A new patio, an extension of one that was never big enough, or a full tear-out of cracked concrete with pavers set in its place. Layout gets designed around how the space gets used, which usually means the grill, the table, and room to walk behind the chairs without anyone standing up.
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Where the yard changes grade, a wall is what makes the flat part usable. They hold a slope back, level a spot for a patio or a pool deck, and get built with the water in mind rather than against it.
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Paver driveways, and replacements for concrete that has cracked, settled, or stained past the point of cleaning. Same base work and the same attention to drainage as a patio, under considerably more weight.
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Deck tear-out with paver installation, spray deck retexturing, and thin concrete pavers set over a deck that is still structurally sound. When the pool is in good shape and the deck is what looks tired, this is often the whole project.
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The connections between the driveway, the door, the patio, and the water. Small work that quietly decides how much of the yard gets used.
The Part of a Patio You Never See
Hardscaping here lives or dies on what happens before a single paver goes down. Grade, base, and where the water goes when it rains hard for twenty minutes. Sand washes out from under a patio that drains toward the house instead of away from it, and by the time the problem is visible on the surface, the surface is already moving.
None of that shows up in a photo or a description, which is why every one of these projects starts with someone standing on the ground you want built.
Hardscaping on the Same Contract as the Pool
Most of this work happens next to water, and the least expensive time to do it is while the equipment is already on site and the ground is already open. Coming back in three years to add the patio costs more than building it now, and financing is available on the hardscaping as well as on the pool.
The pool, the patio, the outdoor kitchen, the fire feature, the fence, the irrigation, and the landscape design can all sit on one contract with one company answering for the schedule. Some trades are subcontracted. We schedule them, manage them, and answer for them.
What You Can Expect on a Hardscape Project
Outside the House, Not On It
The scope starts at the porch and works outward. Patios, walls, drives, walkways, and pool decks are ours. Brickwork and stone veneer on the house are not, and neither is slab work or a chimney attached to the structure.
A Design You Can Stand In
2D and 3D renderings are produced in-house and presented at your property. On tight sites we lay the patio out in spray paint so you can walk the footprint before you approve it. Material samples come to the yard, because a paver that looks right on a screen can look wrong against your house.
One Company Through the Whole Job
You hold one company responsible for the grade, the base, the pavers, and the schedule instead of sequencing three trades and hoping they line up.
Common Questions About Patios and Hardscaping
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Outdoor Solutions replaces concrete patios with pavers regularly, and it is a large share of the company's hardscaping work. The old slab comes out, the base gets rebuilt and graded to drain, and the pavers go down on top of it. The same approach works on a cracked pool deck.
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Outdoor Solutions builds patios and hardscaping as standalone projects, with no pool required. It gets sold alongside a pool often enough because the ground is already open, but plenty of these projects are a patio and a wall on a yard that already has everything else it needs.
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Patio and retaining wall build time with Outdoor Solutions depends on access, grade, and how much material has to come out before anything goes in. That is what the visit to the property is for, and you get a real schedule once the design is agreed.
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Outdoor Solutions can build a patio where water collects today, because grading and drainage are designed into the patio rather than added on afterward. Point out the wet spot at the first visit, since correcting it costs considerably less while the ground is open than after the patio is on top of it.
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Outdoor Solutions builds paver driveways and replaces concrete driveways that have cracked, settled, or failed. It gets looked at and priced the same way everything else does, after someone has seen the access and the grade.
Start With Someone Standing on the Ground You Want Built
Outdoor Solutions builds patios, retaining walls, and driveways in Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, D'Iberville, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Waveland, and nearby communities across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.