A finished Lattas Landscaping pool and spa in Shellharbour: a deep-blue tiled pool with bubbling spa jets, travertine paving and frameless glass fencing.

Lattas Landscaping, pools, retaining walls and excavation in Shellharbour

Landscaping and excavation. Shellharbour, NSW.

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30+ years Building backyards across Shellharbour and the Illawarra

What we build

Done right the first time

Top to bottom, we build the whole job: pools and decks, tiling and concreting, retaining walls, natural stone and paving, and the excavation that sits underneath all of it. A backyard like this only goes in once. Once the paving is down, the slope, the drainage and the footings are set for good, so they’re the parts we get right before anything is covered over. You’ll know exactly what we’re building from a written scope up front, and you’ll deal with one person from the first quote to the day we hand it back.

  • Pools
  • Retaining walls
  • Natural stone
  • Paving
  • Excavation
  • Decks
  • Tiling
  • Concreting
A finished concrete pool with pale stone coping, timber decking and a covered alfresco kitchen built by Lattas Landscaping.
A frameless glass pool fence beside a timber deck bridge over sandstone boulders, with a brick home behind.
A finished pool with water jets, a carved timber daybed and a stacked-stone feature wall.
An excavator setting large sandstone boulders into a retaining wall on a cleared Illawarra site.
Travertine feature steps running up through native planting under a blue sky.
A paved driveway and path lit at night by low garden lighting.

How it works

From quote to handover

01

Get a written scope

A real quote and a written scope before anything starts, so you know exactly what’s being built and what it costs.

02

Built to spec, not the minimum

Footings, drainage and levels are set to full engineering spec, not just enough to pass an inspection.

03

Site left clean, then a walkthrough

The driveway and footpath get swept at the end of every working day. When the job’s done, you walk it with us before we call it finished.

If the ground throws up a surprise, like a slope needing another course of block, you hear about it before it happens, not on the invoice.

Recent builds

More of the work

Pools and alfresco, stonework and retaining, landscaping and paving, and the excavation that sits underneath it all, across Shellharbour and the Illawarra.

A large sandstone boulder retaining wall built across a steep, cleared block.
Timber-edged raised garden beds and paved steps with a Japanese maple against a brick home.
An excavator digging out a new pool and retaining on a suburban site.
A finished lap pool with composite decking beside a covered alfresco kitchen.
A natural sandstone block retaining wall and planted frontage with a grass tree and mulched beds.
Two established grass trees set into a freshly laid turf lawn beside a rendered home.
A crane lifting a skid-steer loader over a fence into a tight-access backyard.
Cantilevered timber steps and frameless glass fencing running beside a lap pool.
A covered outdoor kitchen with a built-in BBQ and rangehood over composite decking.
A frameless glass pool fence with a timber step-deck crossing sandstone boulders.
Curved paved steps and sandstone retaining leading up to a front entry.
Bluestone stepping stones set through a lawn beside a timber letterbox planter and driveway.
Large-format bluestone pavers stepping up through native planting and mulched beds.
An excavator working through broken rock and boulders on a cleared, benched block.
A tiled water feature spilling into a pool against a timber-batten screen with native planting.
A rendered entry with a dark pivot door, tiled threshold and a clipped topiary in a large pot.
A travertine-paved pool and spa surround under a covered timber-post alfresco, with frameless glass fencing.
An excavator clearing and benching a sloped block, with spoil stockpiled ready to cart out.
A poured concrete slab beside a rendered block retaining wall on a prepared site.
Steel reinforcement and timber formwork set out and tied ready for a concrete pour.
A core-filled besser block retaining wall part-way through construction on a cut batter.
An excavator digging out footings and drainage on a cleared suburban block.
A stone-and-render house frontage with a timber-clad pier letterbox and native front garden.
A deep-blue tiled lap pool with a travertine surround and composite timber decking.

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Built to last, not just for the photos.

More than thirty years of building backyards across Shellharbour and the Illawarra comes down to a simple idea: the part you never see is the part that lasts. A new pool or a fresh stone wall will always look the part on handover day. Whether it holds up for the next ten years is another question, and that comes down to the footings, the drainage and the ground underneath. That’s why we build to the full engineering spec, not the minimum it takes to pass an inspection, and why the groundwork gets the same care as the finish on top.

Where we work

Shellharbour and the Illawarra

Servicing Shellharbour and the Illawarra, South Coast NSW.

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Tell us the job and get a written scope back. No site visit needed to get started.

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