How deep does the base actually need to be in North Jersey?

150 mm of compacted ¾″ clean stone under foot traffic, over a 235 mm total excavation. Under a driveway it goes to 300 mm. That is not a preference — it is what our freeze–thaw cycle demands. A 100 mm base will look identical on handover day and will be visibly moving by year three.

What does a paver patio cost in Bergen County?

Most of our terrace projects land between $52,000 and $140,000, and every project on this site is published with the range it actually cost. The variables that move the number most are access for machinery, how much the grade has to change, and whether there is drainage or a wall involved — not the paver you pick.

How long does it take?

Six to eleven weeks from mobilisation for a typical terrace, including the drawing set. Weather moves it; we build the float into the schedule rather than promising a date we know we will miss.

Do you subcontract the hardscape?

No. The crew that draws the base plan is the crew that runs the plate compactor. We subcontract nothing on the hardscape itself.

What we build 01 / 10

Paver Patios & Walkways

60 mm units · 25 mm bedding course · 150 mm compacted base · polymeric joints

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A patio fails from underneath. Everything you can see — the colour lot, the pattern, the edge detail — is decided in a showroom in an afternoon. What decides whether it is still flat in year twenty is the 235 mm of stone nobody photographs. We cut to depth, compact in lifts, and plate-test each one before the next goes in.

How we build it

Dimensions you can hold us to

EXCAVATION: 235 mm under foot traffic Cut to subgrade, then proof-rolled. Soft spots are dug out and replaced, not bridged.
COMPACTED BASE: 150 mm ¾″ clean · 75 mm lifts · 95% Proctor Two lifts, each compacted and plate-tested before the next.
GEOTEXTILE: Separation fabric over subgrade Keeps the base stone out of the soil so the section does not thin over time.
BEDDING COURSE: 25 mm coarse concrete sand Screeded, never used to correct grade — that is what the base is for.
UNITS: 60 mm, ICPI-spec Interlocking concrete pavers or full-color bluestone on a mortarless section.
JOINTS: Polymeric sand, swept and set Locks the field and keeps ants and weeds out of the joint.

The section

Drawn to scale

L3 — LIFTED 150 MM FOR CLARITY

235 MM

PAVER 60 MM

BEDDING SAND 25 MM

COMPACTED BASE 150 MM

GEOTEXTILE SEPARATION

SUBGRADE COMPACTED

Most of what we are paid for is under the stone.

Six inches of base is the difference between a patio that moves in year three and one that does not.

Materials

Full-color bluestone

Thermal top, sawn edge, Pennsylvania quarried

Techo-Bloc

Blu 60, Aberdeen, Antika

Unilock

Rivenstone, Umbriano, Beacon Hill

Belgard

Lafitt, Melville, Mega-Arbel

Process

In the order the work happens

Survey & drawing set

Base plan at 1/8″ = 1′-0″ · 1 ft contours

We shoot grades before we price anything. Every step riser, wall course and drain invert is dimensioned on the plan you approve.

Excavation & base

150 mm ¾″ clean · 75 mm lifts · 95% Proctor

Cut to 235 mm under foot traffic. Stone goes in in two lifts, each compacted and plate-tested before the next.

Setting & cutting

60 mm units · 25 mm bedding · wet-saw only

Units come off three pallets at once so colour lots blend instead of banding. Every cut is made wet, on a table, off the patio.

Edge, light & handoff

12 V · 300 W transformer at 60% load

Polymeric sand, spiked restraint, then the fixtures aimed after dark with you standing there.