Paver Patio Installation in Little Rock, AR

Overview

A paver patio is an outdoor surface built from individual interlocking concrete or brick units set closely together over a compacted gravel base, rather than a single poured slab. Because the surface is made of many small units instead of one rigid piece, a properly installed paver patio can handle minor seasonal ground movement without the wide, ugly cracking that a poorly based concrete slab develops over time.

Homeowners in the Little Rock metro typically call us for a paver patio when they're replacing a cracked or heaving concrete slab, adding a first patio to a new build, or expanding an existing outdoor living space to fit a grill, seating area, or fire pit. Pavers are also the right call when you want more design flexibility than a poured surface allows — different colors, patterns, and borders can be mixed within the same installation.

Our process starts with excavation to a depth based on your soil and the patio's intended use, typically deeper for areas that will see furniture or foot traffic concentrated in one spot. We compact a crushed stone base in lifts, checking compaction as we go rather than all at once, then screed a bedding layer of coarse sand before laying pavers to the chosen pattern. Every patio gets a compacted edge restraint to keep the perimeter pavers from creeping outward over time, and we finish by sweeping polymeric sand into the joints and compacting the whole surface with a plate compactor.

The base is what separates a paver patio that lasts twenty years from one that needs to be relaid within five. Central Arkansas's clay soil holds water and swells more than sandier soils elsewhere, so we don't cut corners on base depth or compaction just to save a day of labor. Every paver patio we install comes with a workmanship guarantee, and we'll walk you through the pattern and border options during your free on-site estimate.