Forty years. One owner, one team. The outdoor builds nobody else could pull off.
Design-build outdoor construction across San Diego County since 1984. Structure first — then the backyard. One team, no subcontractors, a clean record for four decades.
- Property
- Canyon-edge, sloped
- First problem
- Slope & runoff
- Sequence
- Stabilize, then build
- Trades
- In-house, no subs
- Record
- Completed, clean
Forty years. Hundreds of backyards.
Every project starts with what’s under the ground — grading, drainage, slope. A few we’ve finished across San Diego County.
Five things most San Diego contractors can’t honestly say.
The property most contractors quoted, then walked away from.
Anyone can pour concrete on flat ground and call it a patio. The work is figuring out why the patio at the back of the house keeps flooding, what the slope behind it is doing to the soil, and whether the retaining wall a previous contractor built is going to fail in three years. We start there. Then we build the backyard.
One studio. Every element of the backyard.
You call one person. One team builds all of it — from excavation to the final light fixture. No subcontractor chains, no finger-pointing.
Since 1984, built the same way: in person.
UltraScape is a San Diego County design-build firm founded in 1984 by Darren Earl. Four decades in, every project still runs the same way: one site, one client, one team handling engineering through final lighting.
No subcontracted design. No revolving project managers. The person who plans your build is the person standing in your yard the day we break ground — and the one carrying the ten-year structural liability after.
“Structure goes in first. Function comes second. Beautiful comes last. That order is why the work is still standing.”Read the full story →
What people say after forty years of doing this.
“Three contractors wouldn’t touch the slope behind our house. Darren graded it, built the wall, and solved the drainage before he poured a thing. Four years later, not a crack.”
“One team from the dig to the lighting. No subs blaming each other, one person we called the whole time. The work speaks for itself.”
“He explained the structure first, the look second. You can tell he’s been doing this for decades. Our patio drains right and looks better than the neighbors’.”
Start with a property assessment.
Tell us about your property. We’ll come look at it — structure first, then the build you actually want — and give you a fixed-price concept. No charge for the visit.
Tell us about the property.
Serving San Diego County: Jamul, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, La Jolla, Encinitas, Poway, Carmel Valley, Carlsbad, Solana Beach and surrounding communities.
Saturday · By appointment
Sunday · Closed
We’ll be in touch within one business day to schedule the visit.