One of the most important reasons you bought your home was probably imagining the potential of what the backyard has to offer. A key component to any outdoor living space is a patio that supports your family’s outdoor activities, and pavers are just the material to make it happen. Pavers will last an incredibly long time and look great when combined with your home and other landscape features. See how you can enhance your home investment by adding a paver patio in the Newton, MA area.
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A Long-Lasting Surface
Many backyard patios across the world are cheaply built using poured concrete. Even when well-installed, this rigid surface can’t withstand natural soil movement. Eventually it will buckle under the pressure of natural freeze thaw cycles, leading to unsightly cracks, unwanted weed growth, and an ugly patio that will need replacing. Pavers, meanwhile, offer a slightly flexible paved surface that can subtly flex with the pressure of soil movement. You won’t notice these movements, but they are enough to prevent cracks or depressions from developing.
A Lifetime of Low Maintenance
Since a paver patio is much more durable than other paved surfaces, you will spend less time and money maintaining its good looks. An individual paver may accidentally break from time to time, but replacing just one piece is significantly easier and cheaper than replacing a whole section. Many pavers come fully sealed against stains. Your masonry contractor can also apply a sealant after installation to extend the longevity of the pavers and make cleanup a breeze.
Naturally Inspired Textures
Natural stone can provide incredible visuals and comforting feels to an outdoor space. With natural stone, the arrangement of a patio can take considerable time and you’re never sure of the integrity of an individual stone (especially if you’re choosing a sedimentary stone such as flagstone, which can have big variations in quality). Modern pavers often feature a naturally inspired texture molded from natural stone sources to give the appearance that they were carved out of a quarry. In addition to a realistic look, pavers deliver a much more consistent makeup of aggregates, as well as consistent sizes designed to speed up installation.
Brilliant Colors
As paver technology has improved over the years, paver manufacturers now have the ability to produce the brilliant natural hues of stones from all over the world. From the warm earthy tones that go hand in hand with red brick to the steely bluish grays that work well in modern contexts, there are a wealth of brilliant colors to work with. With subtle differences between them, you can even make some incredible color arrangements and gorgeous transitions between spaces in your backyard.
Countless Arrangement Possibilities
Not only have paver manufacturers come up with a whole range of color combinations as well as naturally inspired textures, they’ve also designed many different shapes and sizes to increase design flexibility. This allows for countless arrangement possibilities in a paver patio that can accommodate practically any landscape design theme. Today, many pavers come in a variety of sizes or even random bundles of several shapes/sizes. Each paver is designed for several laying patterns. For example, even a perfectly square paver can be laid edge-to-edge, or edge-to-middle, and the laying pattern can be at a 90-degree or 45-degree angle to the home.
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