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Steps for building the perfect outdoor patio
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Steps for building the perfect outdoor patio

Published August 7, 2023
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Recently, I had the enormous pleasure to help my son achieve one of his goals. He bought a new home last year and quickly discovered how much he missed the stunning redbrick patio he grew up with at our last home.

Recently, his mother and I were visiting and he said, “Dad, I’m finding it’s very hard to get bids for a patio and the prices I’m receiving are in the stratosphere. Do you think you and I could build a patio like we had at home?”

In an instant, I knew how much work it would be, but I didn’t hesitate. I told him, “The first step is to discover exactly what you want.”

Over the years, I’ve performed countless autopsies on projects that didn’t turn out the way the homeowners wanted. In almost all cases, it came down to inadequate thought and planning before the first shovelful of dirt was turned.

You might be like many past customers of mine. We all have different talents and skills, and you may lack the ability to see a finished house, room or even a flat patio in three dimensions. This immediately puts you at a disadvantage. There’s a great chance you’ll not think about how the space will be used and how furniture will create what I call invisible hallways in rooms. There’s a very good chance you’ll underestimate the overall size something needs to be to function properly.

My son doesn’t have this talent. So, I did with him what I had done for years with past customers. I was armed with a roll of colored mason’s string, some wood stakes, a 4-pound hammer and a few tape measures.

“Share with me what would be the ideal weekend gathering you might have with your friends,” I said. “Who will be here, and what will you be doing?”

He said he’d have four or five friends over, he’d serve smoked brisket from a smoker and after they ate, they’d play a board game or just sit around engaged in relaxing conversation. He also said he’d like to have a small water feature for birds and for creating soothing background ambience.

This meant the patio had to have room for a table that would seat six people, additional room for his smoker, space for a portable water fountain, a place for two chairs and maybe a few potted plants around the edge of the patio. It was time to drive stakes and stretch string.

Over the years, I’ve found that you need a space that’s at least 12 feet by 14 feet for a rectangular table that seats six people. A 12-by-12-foot space is required for a 4-foot round table that seats four people. This provides plenty of room to move around while people are seated.

Before we went outside to stake out the patio, we made a quick sketch on paper to get a rough idea for the overall size, knowing what he wanted. Using the string and wood stakes, within minutes, we had created the outline of the patio. A set of steps from the house leading to the patio controlled the overall design. A small space on one side of the steps was reserved for the smoker, and the other side was the much larger seating area.

The overall scale of the patio, including the steps, was 29 feet long by 15 feet wide. Stretching the string around the wood stakes made the shape come alive. I used smaller stakes and some string to create the actual furniture to show that everything would fit and there’d be plenty of room to walk across the patio without bumping into anyone.

You can do the same thing by setting patio furniture on your lawn and spacing it how you want it. Then, put string around your furniture layout to determine the overall size of the patio. Trust me, that huge patio in your head will shrink in size once you place furniture on it. Always go bigger. You’ll never regret it.

Tim Carter has worked as a home improvement professional for more than 30 years. To submit a question or to learn more, visit AsktheBuilder.com.

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