Paver Patios, Walkways and Driveways in Sacramento

The base is the job

Sacramento summers are long. A patio that holds up here has to survive 105 degree afternoons, clay soil that swells in January, and about fifteen years of foot traffic without going wavy. Most of that comes down to what's under the pavers.

A paver patio is maybe 20% pavers. The rest is excavation, base rock, compaction and edge restraint. That's where cheap installs fail, because it's the part nobody sees once the job is done. Skip four inches of base and the patio looks great in June and looks like a skate park by the third winter.

Our crews came out of floor work, which means substrate is the thing we've always been paid to get right. Same discipline outside. We dig to depth, compact in lifts, set the drainage fall away from your foundation, and lock the edges before a single paver goes down. Ask any contractor bidding your patio how deep they're excavating and how many lifts they're compacting — the answer tells you everything about the bid.

Sacramento clay moves. Concrete answers by cracking: not if, when. A paver field answers by flexing, because it's thousands of individual pieces sitting on a compacted base instead of one rigid sheet. The real difference shows up in year eight — when a paver section settles we pull those pavers, fix the base, and reset them, and you can't find the repair afterward. On a poured slab, the repair is a patch you look at every time you walk outside.

The hardscape crew came over from Sierra Pavers, which now operates under the On Point name. Same people, same trucks, one company — one point of contact whether you're getting floors pulled inside or a patio built out back.