Southlake / Patios

Patio Builder in Southlake

Paver and natural stone patios built on a real base for Southlake estate lots, so they hold flat instead of heaving in the clay.

Most patio jobs in Southlake are on the bigger lots, the kind you find out in Timarron, Clariden Ranch, the Estates, and around Shady Oaks. There is room to do a real outdoor living area, so the patio is rarely just a slab off the back door. It usually wraps the pool, carries out to a kitchen or a fire pit, and has to look like it belongs with a house that already cost a lot. That is the patio work we do.

We have built patios across DFW for 20 years. In Southlake the two material families we install are pavers and natural stone, and which one fits comes down to look, budget, and how much upkeep you want. Pavers, concrete or brick, give you a clean repeatable pattern and a single unit can be lifted and reset if anything ever moves. Natural stone is where most of the estate jobs land. Travertine stays cooler underfoot through a Texas summer and reads as part of the architecture, and a wider flagstone or bluestone is the choice when you want every piece to be its own. We bring samples to the property and set them against your stone and coping in daylight.

The part that decides whether a patio lasts is the part you never see. North Texas sits on expansive clay that swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries, and that movement is the number one reason patios in this area heave, sink, and crack. We do not set stone on a thin sand layer and hope. We excavate down, lay and compact a proper base in lifts, and pitch the whole surface so water runs away from the house and off the patio instead of pooling under it. On the larger Southlake footprints we also plan where roof and pool deck runoff goes, because a patio that drains right is a patio that stays flat.

Pattern and edge are what make it look designed rather than poured. We run borders, banding, and soldier courses to frame a space and to break a large patio into rooms, an eating area, a lounge area, the path to the pool. A defined border also locks the field in and keeps the edges from creeping over the years. We match the joint lines and the stone to the rest of the yard so it does not read as a separate project bolted on.

A patio rarely goes in alone out here. It is the floor that a fire pit, an outdoor kitchen, a seat wall, or a retaining wall sits on, and building them together means one crew, one material palette, and one timeline, which usually saves real money over hiring it out piece by piece. If your lot slopes, the patio and the wall that holds the grade for it are the same job.

On budget, a paver patio generally runs about $18 to $30 per square foot installed, and natural stone like travertine or bluestone runs roughly $30 to $50 and up, so a typical Southlake patio lands anywhere from $8,000 to $30,000 depending on size, material, and whether it ties into a kitchen or fire feature. Most patios go in over 1 to 2 weeks. We build throughout Southlake and the rest of the Metroplex, and you can compare a patio in Highland Park. Want a real number for your yard? Fill out the form for a free on-site estimate. We measure it, we quote it.

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