MODERN PATIO DESIGNS Exterior Design–Build
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Franklin Lakes, NJ — Pool Surround + Outdoor Kitchen

Every joint
holds.

Stand-in art · final crop

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Nineteen cuts around a free-form pool. None of them show.

A free-form shell means every coping stone on the radius is a different cut, and every one of them is visible from the kitchen window. We dry-laid the entire coping run and the first two courses of field before a single unit was set, adjusted for four days, and only then committed. Nineteen cuts on the radius. From the house you cannot find one.

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Under the stone

Total section 250 mm

L3 — LIFTED 150 MM FOR CLARITY

250 MM
PAVER 60 MM
BEDDING SAND 25 MM
COMPACTED BASE 150 MM
GEOTEXTILE SEPARATION
SUBGRADE COMPACTED

Most of what we are paid for is under the stone.

Six inches of base is the difference between a patio that moves in year three and one that does not.

“Four winters in and not one joint has opened. The lighting still reads exactly the way it did the night he aimed it.”
Dan
Franklin Lakes, NJ
Pool surround + outdoor kitchen
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Start here

Something like this,
at your house.

Four short steps, about ninety seconds. You will get a written range before anyone comes out — and if we are not the right fit, we will say so on the call.

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STEP 01 / 04Project type

What are we designing?

Select one — you can add scope later

Pools & Water Features — step 02 next

NJ HIC # 13VHXXXXXXXXX · Licensed & fully insured · $2M general liability · Google 4.9 / 5 — 127 Reviews · Techo-Bloc / Unilock / Belgard Authorized · Houzz Pro