How Much Does a Custom Backyard Patio Cost in Savannah in 2026?

When you call around for patio pricing in Savannah, you’ll either get a range so wide that it really doesn’t tell you anything, or you just get a number with nothing attached to it. Neither one helps you decide anything. Pricing a backyard isn’t like getting a price on an appliance, there are a lot of variables. Unfortunately most of the guys in this trade would rather be vague on price than explain what the variables are that determine a price.

My name is Randy Thompson. I left an aerospace career to start All Out Hardscapes & Lighting Solutions, and in just over 10 years we’ve built more than 150 patios, walkways, and outdoor living spaces across Savannah and the Coastal Lowcountry. A lot of our jobs have been on Wilmington Island, in Savannah Quarters, and out through Pooler and Richmond Hill. When I give you a quote on a patio, that number comes from our experience. We have priced a lot of jobs and done a lot of work in the unique soil we have here in this area.

Five things will determine the price on your patio. It all depends on how much ground you’re covering, what materials you choose, how much detail and design work you need, what we build underneath it, and what you add around it once the patio is in. I would rather walk you through all five and hand you a real price range that you can count on. I don’t want to give you a price you are excited about and then not be able to honor that later.

So What Will My Backyard Patio Actually Cost in 2026?

Everybody quoting a custom patio in this market is working with the same variables: square footage, material, detail work, and the base. The difference between multiple quotes from multiple companies is how many things on that list actually get built and built correctly. So here are our numbers in black and white so you can compare all the quotes you get with ours.

Most custom backyard patios we build in Savannah run $10,000 to $20,000, and our average job is right around $15,000. When a project gets bigger, gets more custom, or starts connecting spaces with walking trails, that price is gonna go up. Most of our projects are between $15,000 and $25,000+.

We quote all of it as turnkey, which means one all-inclusive price for us to come out and perform the work, labor and materials together, calculated off the square footage. There is no separate material invoice, and there is no second number waiting for you at the end of the job, the price we quote is out the door.

Why Am I Quoted by the Square Foot, and What Does That Include?

The square-foot price is your base price before you start adding special details and designs. That price is based on doing all the steps in a certain order. Excavate the area, build and compact the base, set the pavers, lock the joints, restrain the edges, then clean up and haul off what got dug up. Material is what changes a price the most, because it changes what we buy and how it has to be installed.

Turnkey price per square foot by material:

• Concrete pavers: $25 to $35
• Permeable pavers: $25 to $35
• Natural stone: $25 to $35
• Tile: $18 to $45

Permeable pavers are installed with open joints so rainwater drains down through the surface instead of running off the top. Natural stone is the category that includes things like travertine, slate, sandstone, and marble. Tile has the widest price range because tile could be anything from cheap porcelain to premium stone.

We could publish a lower number on any of those materials if we strip it down to just the paver by itself, then we could advertise $6 to $18 a square foot. But that’s misleading because it’s only for the paver and nothing else. It doesn’t cover the gravel or the sand that you have to have to install those pavers, and those two alone add about $8 a square foot.

If we put $6 to $18 on our website, then when people do the math, they don’t realize that gravel and sand costs money, and they start a conversation expecting a 30 thousand dollar job to cost 5 grand. We would rather be upfront and give you an all-inclusive price for us to come out and perform your work, based on square footage, labor and materials, so you have a solid number before any work starts.

The Size of Patio $15,000 Buys in Savannah

If you do the math and you’re using concrete pavers, that means that $15,000 covers 430 to 600 square feet, all installed and finished. That includes everything for the job. The excavation, the base, the pavers, the joint locking sand, the edge restraint, the labor, and the cleanup. Where you land between 430 and 600 square feet depends on the product you choose and how much design detail goes into the layout.

A $15,000 patio is a week to a week and a half of crew time in your yard. That’s for the excavation, hauling off what we dig out, base work, compaction, cutting, and finish detail. All of those steps take people and equipment on site.

The tradeoff is the same on every job: your $15,000 buys you more ground or more detail. Most of the design decisions come down to you telling us which type of material you want to use.

What Am I Paying For Under the Pavers?

The part of the quote you can’t see is what decides whether the patio is still flat and uncompromised in ten years. If we didn’t do the gravel base and went with the cheaper material underneath, like sand, we could easily take $5,000 off our cost on most jobs. If we didn’t use the special polymeric sand in the joints and just filled them with plain sand, that is another $1,200 we could knock off. Those are two things nobody could see on installation day, and the quote feels a lot better with the lower price.

A gravel base is clean, angular crushed stone, open graded so the fines are screened out, and it gets one single firm compaction pass. It actually serves two purposes. It holds up the patio, but it also lets water drain through instead of sitting under your pavers causing damage over time. Polymeric sand is jointing sand with a binder mixed into it, so when it gets wet it sets up and locks the joints together instead of staying loose.

Here is why that even matters in a Lowcountry backyard and not somewhere dry. Plain mason sand has nothing holding it together. We get rain here that comes down hard and sideways for long periods of time, and that plain sand starts washing out of the joints almost immediately. Once the joints are empty, the pavers can’t brace and support each other anymore, and now your nice locked surface turns into a few hundred loose pieces that rock and wiggle under feet and furniture. You got a bigger patio for the money on day one, but you don’t have what you need to hold the whole thing together because it got cut out to save money.

So we don’t even offer to do jobs that way and we won’t quote you for something like that just to show you a prettier price point. All of our jobs use a gravel base with polymeric sand no matter what, so it’s done right and we never have to come back.

How Much Do Custom Patterns and Inlays Add?

An inlay is a design set into the patio out of cut, color-matched pavers, and it is what makes a plain surface really look like it belongs to your family. A sports logo inlay is $1,500. A full nautical compass, with pavers made to look like rope, is $2,500. We buy the pattern from a manufacturer that produces the inlay as a kit in solid-color block, and the rest of the patio is Techo-Bloc.

On a $15,000 patio, a $2,500 inlay is less than 17 percent of the job, and it’s the first thing every person who walks out there is going to notice. That’s the cheapest way to get a lot more bang for your buck in your backyard. We’re in a heavy military area out here, so a lot of what we set is patriotic work like service emblems, an eagle with a flag behind it, or a compass for the people who like to spend time on the water.

Why Does My Number Climb Once We Start Designing?

Here’s the pattern we’ve noticed, just so you aren’t surprised. If somebody plans on spending $10,000, they end up at $15,000. If they plan on $15,000, they end up at $20,000. That’s not because we’re upselling them, it’s just what happens when you stand in your own backyard with a design in front of you and start dreaming about what it could really look like when it’s all done.

But remember that there’s always room for enhancement as long as the value is there, and we are not going to sell you something that doesn’t give you the value for the money. Lighting is a great example of that. If a low-voltage lighting package means you get four to eight more hours out of that patio after the sun goes down, the value is obvious, because that money gave you those wonderful evenings. If an add-on doesn’t pass that test, we’ll tell you not to bother with it.

When Is a Custom Patio the Wrong Spend Right Now?

If your number is well under $10,000 and what you want is the most square footage you can get with that money, we are not the right company to build your patio, and we will always tell you that on the phone. Somebody in this market will build you more patio for that money by putting cheaper material under it and plain sand in the joints. That’s a real option that is indeed cheaper upfront. It is also a bigger patio sitting on two things that will fail very quickly in our unforgiving climate.

To get the most use for your money, we highly recommend going with less square footage, but built correctly. And if you are honestly not going to be out there after dark, leave the lighting off, at least at first. It’s better to put your money into the structural part that is still holding ten years from now, rather than try and squeeze a little extra square footage out of your budget and have it go bad in three to five years.

Turning These Ranges Into a Real Number for Your Yard

If your backyard is a $10,000 to $20,000 conversation, you have enough information now to have some real insight on the quote in front of you. Ask what the square-foot price includes. Ask what is going under the pavers. Ask what the joints are getting filled with. The answers to those three tell you more about a quote than anything else.

What an estimate can’t tell you is what is in your specific yard, but the square footage, the material, and the detail work all can be chosen and locked in from the beginning.