Paver Patios, Retaining Walls & New Lawns in Chilliwack

Most residential patios run $27-$37 per square foot installed, so a typical 300–400 sq ft patio lands around $8,100-$14,800. Retaining walls start around $79 per face foot, and a new lawn from $5.50. What moves the number is access, how much excavation the base needs, and the paver you choose. Your quote is fixed and itemised, you’ll see what every line costs before you decide.

No. Some firms charge $1,500–$5,000 for landscape design before construction starts. Your 3D design is included free with your quote, you see the finished yard before you commit to anything.

Compare what’s under the stone, not the bottom line. Ask the other quote how deep the base goes, how many lifts it’s compacted in, and whether drainage is included. Most cheap patios are cheap because the base is thin, and it looks identical on day one. It looks very different in year three when it’s sunk and rocking. We’ll happily walk through a competing quote with you and tell you honestly where we’re different.

You hear about it before we touch it, with the cost in writing and your say-so. Buried debris, old concrete, a spring in the subsoil, it happens on maybe one job in ten. What never happens is finding it on your final invoice.

We’re a good fit if you want it built properly and you’re planning ahead. We’re not the cheapest, our focus is quality work, results that last, and we don’t do rush jobs at the expense of the base.

Now, for the season you want it. Our build season runs March through November and the calendar fills front to back, yards quoted in winter get built in spring. If you want to use the patio this summer, the quote needs to happen well before the install does.

Three to seven working days on site for most patios and walls; sod replacement is usually one or two. You get a start and finish date in writing before we begin, and we don’t stack your job behind three others.

Some, it’s excavation. But we tarp what needs protecting, keep material stacked tidy at the end of each day, run a plate compactor rather than heavy machinery where we can, and haul every scrap of spoil away.

Generally not under 1.22 m (4 ft), those fall outside the city’s building bylaw. At 4 ft and above you need a permit and a design from a registered professional, plus field reviews. We’ll tell you at the walkthrough which side of that line you’re on, and if it needs engineering we coordinate all of it.

Yes. We build the kitchen, and a licensed gas fitter completes the gas line and connection under permit. It’s included in your quote - you don’t have to organise a second trade.

Efflorescence - natural mineral salts rising to the surface as concrete cures. Every paver brand does it, it’s not a defect, and it fades on its own within a season. We’ll tell you how to speed it up if it bothers you.

Yes. We build it, and we can keep it looking the way it did on day one.

It’s optional and separate from your build. Everything we install also carries a 2-year workmanship warranty.

2-year workmanship warranty on everything we install, in writing, plus manufacturer warranties on materials. If something we built settles or shifts, we come back.

50% to lock your build date and cover materials, the balance in staged payments tied to work actually completed. You never pay ahead of what’s built.

Now, and here’s the honest reason: waiting costs you more than it saves.

There’s also the mud. A bare lot in a Fraser Valley winter isn’t a yard you can use, it’s tracked through the house from November to April. Most people who “wait a year” spend that year not using the space at all, then join a booking queue in spring alongside everyone else who waited.

Which is the part worth knowing: our season runs March through November and it books front to back. The yards quoted in winter get built in spring. By June we’re typically scheduling into late summer, and by August we’re booking the following year. If you’ve just taken possession, the quote is worth doing now even if the build is months out, it costs you nothing and it holds your place in the schedule.

If budget is the reason for waiting, say so at the walkthrough. We can phase it: patio and drainage first, planting and lighting next season. Phasing on a plan is smart. Waiting without one just means paying next year’s prices for the same yard.