Pavers & Outdoor Living in Nocatee, FL
New-build backyards, finished properly the first time.
New-build backyards
Nocatee is one of the communities our owners named directly when asked where their best customers are. Most of what we do here starts the same way: a house handed over with the backyard essentially unfinished, and an owner who has looked at it for a season and worked out what it ought to be.
That is a good starting point. Nothing has to be undone, the levels can be set once, and the whole space can be drawn as a single plan instead of assembled a piece at a time over five years.
Sequence it properly, not cheaply
The advice we give most often in a community like this one: if an outdoor kitchen, a fire feature, landscape lighting or a screen enclosure is anywhere in your plans, say so while the deck is still being designed.
Getting the base and the conduit right once, while the surface is open, is straightforward. Cutting them into finished pavers later means lifting work you already paid for and re-laying it, and the difference is not small. It costs nothing to mention at the estimate and it is expensive to fix afterwards.
None of that obliges you to build everything now. It only means the plan knows what is coming, so the surface you put down this year is not the thing standing in the way next year.
St. Johns County timelines
Nocatee sits in St. Johns County, the most predictable jurisdiction we work in, though which office reviews your permit depends on your address. Engineering comes first after you approve the quote, and install follows once the permit is in hand.
If there is an architectural review to clear on top of that, we prepare the whole submission package — drawings, specs and product details. You submit it, because those boards deal with the homeowner rather than the contractor, and the calendar from there belongs to the board.
What to expect on a Nocatee project
Blank-slate backyards
Most projects here start with a slab, a fence and an idea. No demolition, and nothing to undo from somebody else's work.
Utilities and base run once
Say what is coming later — kitchen, fire feature, lighting, enclosure — and it gets allowed for now, while the ground is still open.
A steady run from yes to work
Engineering first, then review at St. Johns County. Install follows once the permit is in hand.
Local FAQ
Nocatee questions.
Call us — a real person answers weekdays 9–5, and every inquiry gets a same-day response during business hours.
Call (904) 925-3089Nocatee is in St. Johns County, where the permit tends to move steadily once engineering is done. Install follows once the permit is in hand.
Yes, and it is the cheapest decision on the whole project. Knowing where the kitchen, the fire feature or the enclosure will eventually go changes the base, the levels and what gets run underneath — all of which are simple now and disruptive later. Deciding the plan is not the same as committing to build it.
Whenever you have a sense of how you want to use the space — there is no advantage in waiting, and one real advantage in calling early. The useful moment is before there is hardscape or planting in the way, because anything already installed has to be worked around or taken up.
We prepare the whole package — drawings, specs and product details. You submit it, because HOAs deal with the homeowner rather than the contractor. After that it is down to when your board next meets, which is genuinely luck of the draw.
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