1940s and 50s homes on compact lots, where the hardest part of the job is often just getting material into the back yard.
Prairie Village is the classic tight-access job. Narrow side yards, fences close to the house, and frequently no gate a machine will fit through — which means base stone and pavers get wheelbarrowed in and spoil gets wheelbarrowed out, by hand, all day. That is a real cost and any honest bid reflects it. If a quote for a tight-access Prairie Village yard matches a quote for an open Olathe yard, someone has not walked the property.
New patios and replacements for cracked concrete or a settled paver field. Laid out on the ground in paint before anything is dug.
Front walks, side paths and the run from the driveway to the door — the first thing anyone sees of the house.
Seating built around a wall-block or steel-insert pit, sized so the chairs fit behind the ring.
Steps down a grade change, edging, seat walls and low retaining walls. Past about four feet it needs a permit — we tell you up front.
A patio at ground level usually does not. Retaining walls past about four feet, anything structural, and work near an easement usually do — and requirements vary city to city across the metro. We check it against your address before we hand you a proposal, so nobody finds out mid-job. Kansas 811 gets called before we break ground either way.
Try the instant estimator for a ballpark, then we come stand in the yard and give you a fixed written price.