The backyard your builder never finished
Our shop is here — 17134 SE Rock Creek Blvd — which makes Happy Valley the fastest site visit on our calendar. Most homes here came with a bare slab and a view of a fence. That’s not a backyard; it’s a placeholder.
Slab to outdoor room
Scroll the straightedge: the before is what the builder left; the after is what the lot was always capable of.
HOAs, the county, and the slope
The HOA, handled
Architectural review committees are the norm here, and they’re the part homeowners dread. We produce the full submittal — drawings, material samples, color sheets — and manage the back-and-forth. You never talk to the committee; we do. Typical approvals run two to six weeks, and we fold that into the schedule honestly.
Clackamas County permits
Permitting here runs through the county, not the city — different forms, different review, and in our experience a friendlier timeline than Portland BDS. We pull it as part of the job, always.
Sloped & walk-out lots
Half of Happy Valley is on a hill. Elevated decks, stepped platforms, engineered footings, and steel where spans demand it — drawn and stamped where the county wants engineering.
Attachment to a 2015 wall
Newer construction is its own discipline: house wrap that must stay continuous, LVL rims, engineered joists that take fasteners differently than old-growth framing. The ledger detail is different from our Portland work — and just as drawn.
Same-week site visits, most weeks.
The shop is minutes away — which means the consultation happens fast, and so does the follow-through. Bring the HOA covenants if you have them; we’ll read them so you don’t have to.
or call Tim: (503) 597-8520