Honest guides on costs, materials, maintenance, and more — so you can make the best decision for your home.
Neither adds value on its own. The first question is your budget, and at $3,000 to $4,000 a basic wood deck is often the honest answer.
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Steel conduit rails set by laser, an aluminum straight edge pulled across them, done twice. And why perfectly flat still means pitched for drainage.
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From a one-day small patio to a two-week custom backyard, plus why the start date is its own timeline and why big jobs carry an extra week.
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Send the pins you have saved, have the person with the idea at the visit, and bring a budget range. We bring the Techo-Bloc book already marked.
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About $25 to $35 a square foot, turnkey: pavers, base, joint sand and labor in one price. Here is what moves a walkway up or down that range.
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Summer is our slow season, spring books up first, and a patio started in the heat is finished in time for fire-pit weather.
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Four decisions make a backyard ready for fall: who will be out there, where the fire sits, how the walk back is lit, and which way the seats face.
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One real Chatham County backyard, walked through decision by decision: the drainage, the offset walkway, the paver color pulled from the house itself.
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Wilmington Island and Savannah Quarters lead by a wide margin — but what is under your grass and where the water goes matter more than your zip code.
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Yes, with one qualifier on the record: a trusted pool contractor sets the shell. The grading, base, paver deck, drainage and lighting are ours.
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The honest math on 0% versus standard rates — and the three cheaper ways out that we would rather you consider first.
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A telescoping boom reaches about eight feet past where the machine is parked, which is how a pallet of pavers gets to your backyard without driving across your lawn.
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Every part of the job has a purpose. That is the whole definition — and by that standard, cutting one curve into a rectangle is not custom.
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Somewhere between six months and five years, and how you wash the patio decides which end of that range you land on.
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You should not have to trust us on drainage. On our drawings the water path is drawn in red, so you can trace it with your finger before anyone digs.
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Five things separate these two numbers, and the base is not one of them. That costs the same either way, because it is the one place we will not cut.
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No. Not permanently — and anyone promising you zero weeds is either selling something very expensive or not being honest with you.
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The honest installed range in Savannah, and why a $6 paver price is not the number you will actually pay. Most of the cost is under the stone.
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Pull the pavers off a patio that failed early and the bedding layer is sand, sitting on dirt with no real base under it — that is where the money went.
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Ask to see where the water goes before anyone digs. A real design consult shows up with the county survey, marks the drainage, and puts an actual paver in your hand.
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Lighting first, then the fire pit, then the seat wall. That order buys the most usable evenings per dollar — and a wheel-in grill area beats a full outdoor kitchen for most families.
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Half down, half at completion. The deposit buys the materials sitting in your driveway — and anyone asking for the whole thing before a shovel moves is a red flag.
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A per-square-foot paver price covers the paver. That is all. The base, the buried surprises, and the lawn repair are where a low quote quietly gets its money back.
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Basketweave built from three paver sizes, a two-color checkerboard field, and a center inlay. The pattern is what makes a patio yours instead of the same rectangle as everyone else.
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Pull your color from the roof and the trim, not the siding. Darker pavers read warmer in Lowcountry light — and you can test the whole thing on your own house before you commit.
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Permanent, usable square footage a buyer can walk out onto and use on day one. Cosmetic work that needs sanding, staining, or replacing on a schedule does not add value.
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Most Savannah backyards land between $10,000 and $20,000 at $25-$35 a square foot. Inlays start around $1,500 — and the base you cannot see is where the money actually goes.
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A job quoted near $26,000 finished around $32,000 after an unknown septic tank turned up in the middle of the patio — which is why every schedule we hand over already has an extra week in it.
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Pavers and natural stone both land at $25-$35 a square foot and both drain through an open-graded base. Tile is the different animal — it has to be wet set over concrete.
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A homeowner build almost never fails at the pavers. It fails 4 to 6 inches down, in the base — and you find out in year three when nothing sits flat anymore.
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Bias on the table: we are the certified Techo-Bloc Pro here. Blue 60 HD2 is our most-installed paver, Villagio turns any radius without a cut, Eva is the budget line.
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It hands you back four to eight hours a night on a patio you already paid for. A 12-volt system at 2800K-3200K flatters the house — solar stakes just light the ground.
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Art value is inlaid color, basketweave built from three paver sizes, checkerboard, a backyard laid out like Victory Lane — and half of it is the drainage you cannot see.
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A sports logo inlay runs about $1,500 and a full nautical compass about $2,500. On a $15,000 patio that is a small add — and it is the part everyone notices.
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Installed right, polymeric sand bonds like grout and stays put. When it runs off in a downpour it is almost always cheap sand — or bedding sand escaping a bad base.
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Water does not sit on a patio for no reason — the base under it was never built to move water. Open stone drains like a French drain; sand on crush-and-run traps it.
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It is almost never the pavers — it is the sand bedding layer washing out from underneath them. In three to five years that carves voids and the surface starts to tilt.
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A real drainage base, polymeric joints, and edge restraint — all three are invisible on day one, which is exactly why cheap installs leave them out.
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Weed seeds blow in from above, not up from below — so they can only grow if there is dirt in the joints. A clean open-graded base and bonded joints starve them out.
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One works like grout and locks the joints together; the other washes out in the first real Lowcountry downpour. The swap saves about $1,200 — and it shows within a season.
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A ground-level paver patio usually does not need a permit — but retaining walls over 18 inches do, and the historic district plays by its own rules.
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A landscaper lays pavers between mowing jobs; a certified installer builds the base for a living — and in our sandy soil that difference shows up by year three.
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Base depth, joint sand, edge restraint, and drainage — the questions that tell you in minutes whether you are hiring a craftsman or a good salesman.
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The cheapest quote is almost always cheap because of what’s missing under the pavers — the base, the compaction, the polymeric sand. How to tell a real deal from a future repair bill.
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Dips, lippage, widening joints, weed lines, and washed-out sand after rain — the five tells that the base underneath was rushed, and what each one means for the patio’s future.
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When one quote comes in thousands cheaper, the difference is usually buried underground — the skipped stone base and polymeric sand you can’t see. The cheap-base trap, explained.
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How a quote comes in cheap — the skipped stone base, mason sand joints, shallow digging, and light compaction you can’t see, and how to catch them before you sign.
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They look identical the day the patio is finished — then split apart underground. Why sand washes out in a few wet seasons here and an open-graded gravel base drains and stays flat.
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The 4-2 open-graded stone base explained — four inches of clean #57 stone and two inches of #789 chip, no sand, so the patio drains like a French drain and stays flat for decades.
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It is almost never the pavers — it is the base underneath. Here is what happens under a sinking patio, why Savannah’s soil makes it worse, and how an open-graded stone base keeps a patio flat for decades.
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Professional paver installation in Savannah costs $12 to $40 per square foot in 2026. For a standard 300 sq. ft. patio, expect $3,600 to $9,000. We break down materials, labor, permits, and what drives the price.
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An honest comparison of cost, durability, maintenance, heat performance, stormwater compliance, and ROI — analyzed specifically for the Savannah and Low Country climate.
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Leaning, cracking, bulging, efflorescence, and sinkholes — the five warning signs every Savannah homeowner needs to know, plus why brick masonry outperforms concrete in the Lowcountry.
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Cleaning, sealing, joint sand, stain removal, and seasonal care — everything you need to keep your paver patio looking perfect in the Coastal Lowcountry.
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