A paving stone never fails where you can see it. The crack you notice at the surface started years earlier, somewhere under the joint sand — a base that was never compacted, an edge that was never restrained, water that found a soft spot and kept working at it through every freeze.
Richard's Pavingstones exists for the part of the job nobody photographs: the excavation, the gravel laid in lifts, the screeded bed, the edge that holds the courses tight. It is patient, exacting ground-work — and skipping it is expensive in a way you won't see for a few winters.
So we dig to the right depth for the use, compact in layers, screed a true bed, and lay each stone to sit flush. We restrain the edges, sweep in joint sand, and compact the whole surface to lock it. Then we sweep the site clean and walk the finished work with you.
Where the whole build either holds its line or it doesn't — placeholder photo, to be swapped for a real project shot.
A good patio is a quiet thing. You stop noticing the heaved corner, the puddle that never drains, the stones that rock underfoot. That quiet is the entire point — and it's what a properly built base buys you, one season after another.
