This answer all depends on how much effort you want to put into learning the construction process. Court building is not a single trade expertise. There are multiple moving parts that are all equally important in producing a quality result that will provide you with your dream court for years to come.

        Do you have the time to put effort into all the moving parts? Let's break down a few: figuring out a budget, designing the layout, dealing with your local city/county, understanding your soil type, grading and compaction, court construction details, concrete design and reinforcement, engineering, coatings types and their applications, finding knowledgeable contractors, proceeding with construction in the proper order, keeping subcontractors on schedule...and that is just scratching the surface. 

        Let's be honest, from an owner-builder perspective, hiring a contractor is expensive. In single trade work (electrical, plumbing, fencing, etc.) there really is no need to bring on a general contractor because all the single trade work is easily outlined and completed. Court building is a different animal. There are very critical steps that your friend's landscaper, who also does concrete, is not going to know when you have them place your concrete court slab. A landscape crew isn't going to know the details of proper court drainage and how the grading, base, and compaction play a vital role to the court build. Likewise, the coatings process itself is not difficult, but there are numerous variables throughout the pickleball court building process that can ultimately lead to a coatings failure. We bring these up, not to scare you, but to bring to the surface the fact that a pickleball court is not a simple weekend project, it is a construction system that has critical procedures that, if done incorrectly, can cause failures to the final product. Some of these failures are not correctable without complete removal and re-construction. Other failures are temporarily correctable but may create coatings eyesores for the life of the pickleball court. 

        This is where our construction management experience provides the most return on your investment. Our value engineering can devise the most cost-effective use of your funds to bring your pickleball court dream into reality. Bringing our team onto your project takes the stress of finding the right answers to your project off of your shoulders. Even if you've already started your project and feel like you are in over your head, give us a call. We can assess your project as it sits, provide feedback, and get everything back on track. 

        So, to answer your question, YES you should build your own backyard pickleball dream court; but do your homework before you break ground.