Field guide

A Paver Patio Estimate App That Prices What's Under the Pattern

Every paver patio that fails, fails underneath — and every lowball patio bid got cheap in the same place. Your estimate is where the customer learns that the patio is a base with pretty rocks on top, and that you price the base like it matters. A paver patio estimate app builds that story into lines while you're standing on the future patio.

The system, as line items

• Layout and excavation: square footage dug to your stated depth, spoils hauled — with machine vs. hand access noted.
• Base: aggregate at your named depth, delivered, spread, and compacted in lifts. Put the inches in the quote.
• Bedding sand, pavers, cuts: product named, waste by pattern, border rows counted separately.
• Edge restraint and joint sand: the finish lines that keep the field tight.
• Extras as options: steps, seat walls, lighting, fire pit — each its own toggleable line.

Why the inches sell the job

"4–6 inches of compacted base in two lifts" is a sentence the $2,000-cheaper bid cannot say. Photograph the grade and the downspout that dumps where the patio goes; narrate the drainage plan. When your PDF names depths and shows the water problem being handled, the comparison stops being about price.

Access moves the number — say so

A walk-out backyard with machine access and a gated 36-inch side yard are different jobs at the same square footage. FieldSquire keeps your rates for both because you correct them separately once; the draft prices the patio you actually have to build.

Sign it on the future patio

Narrate the layout, review the drafted lines at your rates, set the deposit, and collect the e-signature while you're both looking at the string lines in your head. The landscaping estimating app is free for 14 days, no credit card.