Outdoor Living & Pool Surround, North Vancouver — Pro Touch Construction
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North Vancouver  ·  Outdoor

Outdoor Living & Pool Surround

A covered outdoor room that works in October, not just July.

Project type
Design reference
Scope
Covered structure, paving, outdoor kitchen
Paving
Large-format porcelain pavers
Typical build
4–8 weeks on site

A pool surround and covered terrace treated as one build: large-format paving carried from the house to the water line, a roofed outdoor kitchen, and drainage designed before anything was poured.

The build

A roof is what makes it usable here

An uncovered patio in the Lower Mainland is a summer object. Put a proper roof over part of it — framed, not a bolted-on awning — and it becomes usable most of the year. That structure needs footings and engineering like anything else that holds up a roof, which is exactly why it is worth doing once, properly.

Porcelain pavers around water

Around a pool, the surface has to stay grippy wet, resist chlorine, and not cook bare feet in August. Large-format porcelain pavers do all three and stay dimensionally stable, so the joints you set are the joints you keep. Laid on a pedestal or open-graded base, water passes through instead of running toward the house.

Services roughed in early

Gas for the built-in grill, a dedicated circuit for the ceiling fan and lighting, and a hose bib at the far end. All of it trenched while the ground is already open — retrofitting any one of them afterward means lifting paving you just paid for.

The terrace, pool and lawn read as one plane from the house.
The built-in grill sits under cover, plumbed for gas at rough-in.
The pool runs the length of the courtyard between both wings.
Covered patio framed as structure — footings, posts, and a real roof.
Paving meets the pool coping without a step or a lip.
Lawn, paving and water divided into three clean bands.

Reference imagery. These photographs illustrate the specification and finish level described on this page — they are not photographs of a Pro Touch job site. Photos of our completed work in this category are available on request.

Specification
Structure
Framed covered patio on engineered footings
Paving
Large-format porcelain pavers, open-graded base
Outdoor kitchen
Built-in grill, gas line run at rough-in
Drainage
Graded away from the house, permeable joints
Electrical
Ceiling fan, exterior circuit, low-voltage lighting
Finish
Coping and paving set flush, no trip edge
How it gets built
  1. 01

    Set the levels

    Everything is driven by the pool coping height and the door thresholds. Get those wrong and you spend the rest of the build hiding a step nobody wanted.

  2. 02

    Trench and pour

    Footings for the covered structure, gas and electrical trenched, drainage laid. One dig, not three.

  3. 03

    Frame, roof, pave

    Structure up and roofed so the covered area is weather-tight, then paving laid last so it is not being walked on by framers for three weeks.

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