01 · The challenge
Side yards are where water collects and nothing grows. This one ran between the house wall and a raised deck, with no room to work and nowhere obvious to send the runoff.
Outdoor living · 2026
Side-yard walkway
A narrow, unusable side yard turned into a finished walkway running from the door to the deck.
Category
Outdoor living
Scope
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Services
Concrete, Outdoor living
Poured to settled in
Poured
Settled in
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Scope of work
- Excavate and form
- Poured and broom finished
- Control joints to the panel
- Planting bed edge
02 · What we did
Poured with a cross fall away from the siding and a planting bed along the wall side to take the water, with the walk finished broom-textured so it is not slick when it is wet.
03 · The result
A dry route from the side door to the deck, and a strip of yard that is now used instead of avoided.
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