Stone patio installation in Attleboro, MA

A patio is a floor that lives outside, so it gets built like one: dug out to depth, a crushed stone base compacted in lifts, a screeded bedding layer, and pavers restrained at the edge so the field can't creep. The visible part is the last inch. Everything that decides whether it's still flat in ten years is underneath.

In Attleboro that usually means older yards with mixed grades, so we work out where the water leaves before we set the first paver. Many of these lots were built up over time, and the high and low spots move around.

Older Attleboro yards mean we sometimes re-grade before we lay anything, so the patio sits at a height that still meets the door threshold.

For a patio in Attleboro the things that decide the result are boring ones: how deep the base is dug, whether it is compacted in lifts, where the surface sheds to, and how the edge is held. Get those right and the pavers you picked at the yard will look the same in ten winters. Get them wrong and no amount of pretty stone will keep the field flat.

• Full-depth excavation, not a skim over the existing grade
• Crushed stone base built in lifts and compacted between each pass
• Slope planned to shed water away from the house
• Edge restraint set so the field stays put
• Worked to Attleboro's grade and drainage, not a cookie-cutter layout