Project

Backyard paver patio

A dirt yard behind a grey stucco house, turned into a multi-tone paver patio that runs from the sliding door out to the fence. This is the one job we have photographed from the first string line to the last cut.

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Finished backyard patio in multi-tone concrete pavers running from the sliding door out to the fence.

Tampa Bay area Multi-tone concrete pavers Paver patios Walkways and entries

01 Before and after

The same corner of the yard, twice

Both frames are shot from the back of the lot with the neighbour's white vinyl fence behind. Drag the handle across the picture, or tab to it and use the arrow keys, to move between them.

Paver patios

Bare dirt backyard of a grey stucco house before the patio, with a fire pit and staged concrete block. — **One vantage, start and finish**The fire pit, the staged block and the string lines are in the left half. In the right half the field is down and standing proud of the yard on its block edge.

Completed paver patio along the back of the grey stucco house, raised on a concrete block edge. — **One vantage, start and finish**The fire pit, the staged block and the string lines are in the left half. In the right half the field is down and standing proud of the yard on its block edge.

Crew running a plate compactor over the patio base behind the house before any pavers are set. — **The layer you will never see**The plate compactor goes over the base until it stops moving under the plate. Everything above it depends on this frame.

02 The sequence

Edge, base, compaction, paving

The order matters more than the paver does. We trenched and poured a concrete strip along the fence line and bedded a block edge course on it, brought in base material and raked it out, ran the plate compactor over the lot of it, and only then started laying. The pavers are a multi-tone concrete blend in mixed square and rectangular sizes, in a modular pattern, with pieces cut on site to close the field against the block.

Three frames from that order of work. The compaction frame is above.

Concrete block edge course going in along the fence line of the bare backyard before the patio base. — The block edge course going down on its poured strip along the fence, string lines still up.

Graded base material raked out across the backyard, with a concrete block border along the back fence. — Base material raked out across the whole area, with the block border holding the back edge.

Multi-tone concrete pavers going down over the prepared base while a crew member cuts pieces to fit. — Paving under way over the compacted base, with the closing pieces being cut as the field moves.

03 Finished

The patio and the run down the side

The patio comes out of the sliding door, runs out from under the covered lanai and stops at the block edge, which holds the field above the level of the yard. A paver walkway runs down the side of the house to the garage apron. The one frame we have of that walkway was shot before the jointing sand was swept off it.

View from the covered lanai across the finished multi-tone concrete paver patio to the back fence. — Out from under the lanai, across the field to the fence, with the pattern running square to the house.

Paver walkway along the side of the house to the garage, with concrete block staged at the edge. — The side run to the garage apron, sand still on the surface and spare block stacked at the edge.

A poured strip under the block. The edge course does not sit on dirt. It sits on concrete we poured along the fence line first.
Base material, raked and compacted. Graded, raked out over the area and run over with a plate compactor before a single paver went down.
A block edge on the open side. The field is held in where there is no house or fence to hold it, which is what keeps the pattern tight.
Multi-tone concrete pavers. Mixed square and rectangular sizes in a modular pattern, cut on site against the block.
A walkway to the garage. The same paver run down the side of the house to the apron.

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