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Almost every failed paver job in this city failed underneath. The units are concrete or stone and effectively permanent; what moves is the ground they were set on. Seattle makes that harder than most places for two reasons that compound. Glacial till sits under most of these neighbourhoods, and till is hardpan — it perches water rather than letting it away, so a base that is not free-draining becomes a saturated sponge every October. And the region takes thirty-eight inches of rain concentrated into six months, so whatever the base is going to do, it does it quickly. A paver installation here is a drainage detail with a decorative surface on top, and the surface is the cheap part.
Large-format concrete pavers laid tight into a modern garden with a clean restrained edge
What is included
Pavers set on a base built for this ground and this rainfall.
A footpath, a patio and a driveway are three different excavations. Undersized digging is the most common corner cut in this trade precisely because it becomes invisible the moment the surface goes on.
Crushed rock laid and compacted in layers rather than dumped and rolled once. Each lift is compacted before the next goes on, because a thick loose layer only ever densifies at the top.
A separation fabric between soft subgrade and clean rock stops the two mixing over time. On a wet till lot that migration is what turns a good base into a bad one over five winters.
A screeded bedding course at a consistent depth, units laid to the pattern, and perimeter cuts made with a saw rather than split — cut edges are what close-range quality is judged on.
Restrained edges stop the field creeping outward under load. Polymeric joint sand locks the units together, sheds water and gives weeds far less to root into than plain sand.
Open-graded base and permeable joints take rainfall through the surface instead of routing it somewhere. On a lot with nowhere good to discharge, that is occasionally the only honest answer.
Why people call us
How we build it
Seasonality. A longer window than anything poured, because nothing here cures — pavers can be laid in cool weather and walked on the same day. What actually constrains the season is compaction: saturated subgrade will not compact, so the wettest weeks stop the base going in even when the laying would be fine. March to October is comfortable; the shoulder months depend on the fortnight rather than the month.
What the subgrade is, how wet it gets, and where water currently goes. On a till lot those three answers change the build more than the choice of paver does.
Every surface gets a fall, including the ones that look flat. Where water leaves is decided before a shovel moves, not adjusted at the end once the levels no longer allow it.
Down to competent ground, then compacted before any rock goes in. A good base built on an uncompacted subgrade just moves the failure one layer down.
Layer by layer to the specified depth, with a plate or roller sized for the job rather than whatever is on the van. This stage decides whether the surface is still flat in ten years.
Bedding course screeded to depth, units laid off a string line, perimeter saw-cut, and edge restraint fixed before any joint is filled.
Polymeric sand swept in, the field compacted to seat the units, then the whole area washed off — the last step is the one a rushed crew skips.
What it costs
The unit price is a small part of that spread. What moves a paver quote here is depth of excavation, how much spoil has to be carted away, whether the subgrade needs geotextile, and access — a back garden reached through a side gate is hand-barrowed, and that is labour rather than material. Permeable systems sit at the top because the base is deeper and the aggregate is specified rather than ordinary crushed rock. Vehicle-rated work costs more again for the same visible square footage.
That is a market range, not a quote. Your price is fixed in writing after we have seen the site, and it does not move once agreed.
No deposit is required to start. Payment comes after the work is finished — not before.
A fixed, accurate price is guaranteed before the job starts. We do not quote low and raise it mid-project.
A 0% interest payment plan is available for up to 6 months.
Hardscaping work carries a warranty. Vegetation is excluded.
Paver Installation we have built
Paver PatioView full sizeThe dining patio, the water and the raised deck are one continuous route rather than three features dropped on a lawn — the curve of the patio edge sets up the planted bed and the pond sits inside it.
Design & BuildView full sizeA whole garden built in one go on a wooded lot: brick terrace at the bottom, stone rockery holding the bank, a waterfall running through it, and a pergola marking the top level.
Paver PatioView full sizeClose on the junction that decides whether a patio looks built or looks bought: step nosing, soldier course and field, all arriving on one line.
Paver PatioView full sizeLarge charcoal units set with open joints for grass, so the surface drains through itself rather than off itself. It photographs best wet, which in Seattle is most of the year.
Paver PatioView full sizePale paver field, stone-faced seat wall, beds planted the same week. The wall does two jobs at once: it holds the grade, and it is where people end up sitting.
Paver PatioView full sizeMallet still on the wall, block still stacked. The cedar screens went in alongside the paving rather than after it, so their posts sit under the surface instead of on top of it.
Paver PatioView full sizeThree sizes and two colours laid in a random ashlar pattern. Blending from several pallets as you work is what stops a batch difference turning up later as a stripe across the patio.
Paver PatioView full sizeA raised paver terrace with a charcoal cap course, bollard lights along the edge and a fire bowl in the middle. The step down to the lawn is one clean uninterrupted line.
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Paver PatioView full sizeA wide run of paver steps down from the house to a terrace that stops where the lawn begins. Not every garden wants paving all the way to the fence.
Paver PatioView full sizeThe bed wall doubles as the terrace edge and as somewhere to put a drink down. Two functions out of one course of stone is usually the cheapest line in the estimate.
Paver PatioView full sizeLong plank units in two greys laid in a running bond under a covered walk. From the house it reads as one surface; up close it reads as two tones. Both were the point.
Outdoor LivingView full sizeTwo built-in grills, a run of stone-faced counter, and a copper fire bowl set into the paving. The gas line and the drainage went in before a single paver did — they always have to.
Outdoor LivingView full sizeA circular paver terrace wrapped by a curved seat wall, lit at the edge and mulched beyond it. Every unit on that curve is cut on site; there is no kit for this shape.
Outdoor LivingView full sizeThe terrace sits away from the house, so it needed a route to it. The walk uses the same family of paver in a smaller unit, which reads as connected rather than as matching.
Outdoor LivingView full sizeThe wall follows the edge of the terrace rather than boxing it in, so the seating faces the garden instead of facing itself. Clipped hedging behind does the rest of the enclosing.
Driveway PavingView full sizeThe apron takes the worst of the turning load, which is why it is where a driveway fails first. Laid on a full vehicle-rated base with a banded border holding the edge.
Driveway PavingView full sizeA complete drive in grey pavers, turning area included. On a lot this size the paving is the largest single surface on the property, so the base underneath it is most of the job.
Driveway PavingView full sizePhotographed before the edge planting went back, jointing sand still on the surface. The variation across the field is deliberate — units drawn from several pallets rather than one.
Artificial TurfView full sizeArtificial turf pinned into a brick paver border so the edge cannot lift or curl. The grape trellis and the raised planter were part of the same job.
Outdoor LivingView full sizeA gabled pavilion on white posts with stained beams overhead, a stone-faced bar with stools along the house wall, and a paver terrace running out under all of it. Built as one structure rather than a roof added over an existing patio, which is why the posts land on the paving instead of interrupting it.
Paver PatioView full sizeLarge-format grey slabs laid tight against the house, sized for a corner sofa and a fire table with room to walk behind both. The joint lines run parallel to the wall rather than square to the garden, so the terrace reads as part of the building.
HardscapingView full sizeLarge-format slabs and a horizontal cedar screen, photographed the day it rained. The screen stands on its own posts so the paving could run underneath it rather than stop at it.
In their words
Real Google reviews, unedited. We publish the ones that name the work rather than a generic five stars.
Denis Soltan
May 2026
Alex and Aden Landscaping did an amazing job on our patio made of pavers. Fast, professional, and high quality work. Much cheaper than system pavers quote I got earlier.
Andrew Chung
July 2019
I worked with Alex. Upfront, honest and very transparent about the work we requested. As an overview, this is what we requested and had done.
Where we build it
Before you call
Something not answered here? Call (425) 533-9734 and ask — we would rather talk it through than have you guess.
Almost always base depth or compaction, and occasionally water moving underneath. A surface that has dipped in one area rather than settling evenly is telling you the base there was shallower, less compacted, or is being washed out from below. The units are not the problem and replacing them changes nothing. The diagnostic is to lift a small area and look: depth of clean rock, whether it is still clean or has mud worked through it, and whether the subgrade below is wet. That takes an hour and is worth doing before anybody quotes a repair, because the fix for a shallow base and the fix for a drainage problem are entirely different jobs.
Need is a strong word, but there are Seattle lots where they are the sensible answer rather than the fashionable one. A permeable system takes rainfall through the joints into an open-graded reservoir base and lets it soak away, instead of producing runoff you then have to route somewhere. That matters most when the honest answer to "where does the water go" is "nowhere good" — a flat lot with no daylight point, or a property where another impermeable surface would push water toward a neighbour. They cost more, the base is deeper, and they need occasional vacuuming to stay open. On a lot with a straightforward discharge route, a conventional build with proper falls is better value.
Frequently, and it is often the best value on the table. Concrete and clay units are extremely durable, so where a surface has settled or heaved the units are usually fine and the base is the problem. Lifting them, rebuilding the base properly and relaying the same pavers costs meaningfully less than new material and leaves you with a surface that behaves like a new one. The two things that rule it out are units that are genuinely spalling, and a colour you would not be happy to keep. We will tell you which situation you are in before quoting, because there is no sense selling new pavers to solve a base problem.
Efflorescence, and it is part of concrete curing rather than a defect or a sign of a bad install. Soluble salts inside the units migrate to the surface as moisture leaves and deposit there as a pale bloom. It shows most on darker colours and in the first year, and in most cases it weathers off on its own as rain gradually washes the salts out. It can be removed sooner with a proprietary cleaner, though doing that too early simply allows more to come through afterwards. What it is not is a stain in the surface — it sits on top of it.
Less time than people expect for the visible half and more for the invisible one. On a typical residential patio, excavation and base building take the majority of the schedule and laying the units is a fraction of it — which surprises people, because laying is the only part that looks like progress. Access changes the number more than area does: a job a machine can reach moves several times faster than the same square footage barrowed through a side gate. We give a day count in the written estimate rather than a rule of thumb, and it accounts for how material actually reaches the back of your property.
We come out, look at the site properly, and put a fixed written price together. No deposit, and nothing changes once the price is agreed.
Usually done alongside
A driveway that carries the weight and sheds the water.
$12–$32 per square foot installed
A patio you can actually use nine months of the year.
$20–$50 per square foot installed
Get from the street to the door, and around the house, without mud.
$18–$45 per square foot installed
A yard that drains through a Seattle winter instead of holding it.
$10–$25 per linear foot
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