Half-court or full-court, sized to your actual yard, built on a slab engineered to stay square through a Utah winter.
A backyard basketball court is a graded, properly engineered concrete slab, surfaced and striped to your court size, with a hoop system anchored into the slab rather than bolted to a portable base. We size every court to the yard rather than forcing a standard footprint: a 30x30 half-court is the most common residential build, a full-length court needs significantly more room and budget, and plenty of yards land somewhere in between with a scaled-down full-court layout.
The same freeze-thaw and soil dynamics that affect pickleball courts affect basketball slabs even more, since a basketball hoop's anchor point takes real lateral load every time a player drives to the rim. An under-built slab doesn't just crack, it can let the hoop anchor shift, which throws off rim height and backboard alignment over a season or two. We grade and engineer the slab first and treat the hoop and surfacing as what goes on top of a job that's already done right.
We measure the yard, talk through half-court vs. full-court vs. a scaled layout, and check grade, drainage, and access for equipment.
Court dimensions, slab spec, hoop system, and a flat price in writing before anything is dug up.
Excavate, grade for real drainage, and pour an engineered slab sized to the court, with hoop anchors set at pour, not drilled in after.
Acrylic surfacing, court striping to your layout, and a permanent in-ground hoop system set and leveled.
We check rim height, backboard alignment, and surface drainage with you before calling the job done.
Utah half-courts with acrylic surfacing and striping typically run $12,000-$22,000, full-length courts run considerably more given the larger slab and surfacing area. Below is what that spread typically breaks down to.
Get my flat written quoteMost Lehi backyards fit a half-court comfortably; a true full-length court needs a large, flat lot, which is part of why larger newer-construction lots in communities like Holbrook Farms are a better fit for it than older, smaller-lot neighborhoods. We'll measure your actual space on the site visit and tell you what realistically fits before you commit to a size.
That's a function of the slab underneath it, not the hoop hardware. We set anchors into an engineered slab at pour time, sized for Utah's freeze-thaw cycling, so the anchor point doesn't shift the way it can on an under-built or retrofitted slab.
If you're in an HOA community, likely yes for anything visible from outside the lot, including fencing or a hoop structure taller than a typical fence line. Lehi City Development Code Chapter 26 also sets height-tiered setback rules for accessory structures like fencing, we can walk you through what applies to your specific project.
We build in a standard 28-day cure before surfacing goes down, and the court is playable once the acrylic coats have cured, typically within a few days after striping. Total project timeline from site visit to a playable court usually runs 4-8 weeks depending on scope and weather.
If the slab is sized right from the start, yes. This is exactly what our multi-use court design service covers, a single pad striped for both sports rather than retrofitting lines onto an undersized basketball-only slab.
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