A lot of Gilbert backyards started with one small concrete slab under the patio cover. Twenty or thirty years later, that slab is cracked and too small for how people use the yard. A paver patio replaces it with one continuous surface, often tied into the pool deck. On Gilbert's flat former farm lots, the plan starts with where the water goes.
Gilbert paver patio pricing
A concrete paver patio in Gilbert typically runs $2,500 to $6,600 installed, for about 300 to 600 square feet. The paver you choose moves it the most:
- Large format: about $3,300 to $7,800
- Artistic: about $4,200 to $9,600
- Natural stone or travertine: about $4,500 to $10,800
- Porcelain: about $5,700 to $13,200
Removing an old concrete patio adds about $750 to $1,800. A backyard with tight access adds about $150 to $300. The minimum job is $800.
Here's a worked example. A Gilbert backyard that's only reachable through a narrow side gate gets an artistic paver patio. Artistic runs $4,200 to $9,600, and the access adds $150 to $300, so the total is about $4,350 to $9,900. If the old slab comes out too, add $750 to $1,800. Once we measure, you get a fixed figure. Until then, the estimator gives a ballpark.
Replacing or extending the builder slab
The slab under a Gilbert patio cover was poured when the house was built, and it's often the only hardscape in the backyard. Adding pavers next to it leaves a seam where two materials and two heights meet, and the old concrete keeps cracking on its own schedule.
The cleaner job is to take the slab out and build one paver patio from the back door to the yard. It starts with a compacted base and a layer of bedding sand screeded flat on top. That sand gets less attention than it should, since it's what the pavers actually sit in, and we wrote a whole post on why it matters. Edge restraint goes in around the outside, the pavers go down, and we finish by brushing sand into the joints and compacting the patio one more time.
Patio, pool deck and yard as one plan
In a Gilbert pool home, the patio and the pool deck usually touch, and they work best designed together.
That means one paver family or a deliberate contrast, matching heights where people walk from the cover to the water, and borders that line up instead of meeting at odd angles. If the pool deck is still original concrete, replacing both at once avoids a new patio butting into an old deck. If the deck is already in good shape, we match the patio to it as closely as the available pavers allow.
Patio and pool deck are priced separately. A concrete paver patio runs $2,500 to $6,600 and a concrete paver pool deck with coping runs $7,000 to $13,400, so a full backyard in concrete pavers lands around $9,500 to $20,000 before any tear-out.
Drainage on a flat Gilbert yard
Gilbert's lots sit on old farm fields, and the ground is flat. A patio is a big, hard surface, and in a monsoon storm all of the water that hits it has to end up somewhere other than your foundation.
We work out the slope before we dig. The finished surface drops away from the house toward the lawn, a planter or a planned low spot, and the water that goes into the joints has a way down and out through the base. Here's what happens to the water that slips between the pavers. If your yard already holds water after storms, tell us at the start. That's where the design begins.
Backing onto a lake or greenbelt, as some Val Vista Lakes and Power Ranch lots do, can put a patio in front of the HOA's reviewers. That gets settled, along with any Town of Gilbert questions, before your job goes on the calendar.
Paver Patios in Gilbert: Frequently Asked Questions
How is a paver patio priced in Gilbert?
Most concrete paver patios run $2,500 to $6,600 for about 300 to 600 square feet. Large format runs about $3,300 to $7,800, artistic about $4,200 to $9,600, natural stone or travertine about $4,500 to $10,800, and porcelain about $5,700 to $13,200.
Should I tear out my builder slab or pave around it?
Taking it out usually gives the better result: one continuous surface at one height, with no seam between old concrete and new pavers. Removing an old concrete patio adds about $750 to $1,800.
Can my patio and pool deck be done as one project?
Yes. We design them together so the pavers, heights and borders line up. They're priced separately: about $2,500 to $6,600 for a concrete paver patio and $7,000 to $13,400 for a concrete paver pool deck with coping.
Does a narrow side gate add cost?
A hard-to-reach backyard adds about $150 to $300 to a patio. That covers the extra time to move base, sand and pavers into the yard.
My Gilbert yard floods after monsoon storms. Can a patio make it worse?
A patio built dead level can. A patio built with planned fall away from the house, on a base that lets water through, sends water where you want it. We look at where the water collects now before we design anything.