What the work is
A walkway is a narrow patio and fails the same ways: settlement at the edges, a dip where a downspout lands, and a fall that runs toward the house instead of away from it.
The base gets the same treatment. The edges get restraint on both sides, because a narrow surface has proportionally more edge than a patio does and edges are where movement starts.
What is included
- Excavation and compacted base in lifts
- Bedding, pavers, cuts and edge restraint both sides
- Fall set away from the building
- Joint sand and compaction
- Photographs of every stage
What is not
- Sealing
- Steps or level changes, which are quoted separately
- Lighting, unless quoted in
- Drainage structures beyond surface fall
Where the downspouts land
A walkway that crosses a downspout discharge takes the whole roof's water at one point. That is worth designing around rather than discovering.
A paver walkway can sit inside a rebate. Poured concrete cannot.
The water district counts ungrouted pavers and dry-set flagstone as mulch, which means their square footage stays inside a rebated conversion. Poured concrete and mortared work are subtracted from it.
If a rebate is any part of what you are doing, that one rule picks the material before anything about appearance does. And where permeable hardscape goes in, the district will let you meet the plant cover requirement using plants you already have outside the conversion area.
What to ask anyone quoting this, us included
- Which way does it fall?
- How deep is the base?
- Is there edge restraint on both sides?