Paver Patios & Hardscaping in San Antonio, Texas.
Belgard paver patios, walkways, retaining walls, and stone columns — the floor of your outdoor room.
San Antonio sits on a soil boundary, and a paver patio lives or dies by which side of it you are on. North of Loop 1604, thin caliche over limestone gives a base that barely moves; through the center and south of town, expansive clay swells and shrinks with every wet-dry cycle. The Belgard pavers are the same either way — the base preparation underneath is not.
Pavers also happen to suit this landscape. They step naturally across Hill Country grade, sit comfortably around the root zones of protected live oaks in the established neighborhoods, and let rain soak through the joints instead of sheeting off — a sensible trait on the porous limestone country where much of the north side sits over the Edwards Aquifer.
San Antonio questions
A paver surface is a flexible system: it rides minor movement in San Antonio's expansive clay instead of cracking across it, and an individual paver can be lifted and reset if the ground ever shifts. We build the compacted base to the soil on your lot, which is where most failed patios actually failed.
Yes, and in the older neighborhoods it is a specialty. Pavers on a properly prepared base can come near a root zone with far less excavation than a slab requires, and open or permeable joints let water and air keep reaching the roots. We plan the layout around the trees from the first drawing.
With terraces rather than one forced plane. Belgard walls and steps let a patio descend the grade in usable levels, and we set drainage so runoff moves around the space rather than through it. On the north side that often means keying walls into the limestone that is right below the surface.
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