Spring is Just Around the Corner! It is Time for a Patio Installation!
General Masonry Construction can bring your backyard patio vision to life with our design ideas, wide array of masonry materials and our skilled masons. We can see your design ideas for your home with our years of service and knowledge about different stone and surfaces. General Masonry Construction can also lay a concrete, paving stone, or porcelain patio with patience and precision.
At General Masonry Construction we use careful planning to bring the best version of your vision and passion project to life. With many years in the masonry industry, we have performed all types of different masonry projects spanning from residential to commercial on the North Shore.
Working together with the property owners, design team, architects and contractors is how we seamlessly bring your vision to life through communication, planning, sourcing, supplying materials, and execution. Contact General Masonry Construction in Northbrook, IL today to inquire more about patio installation!
Need an Upgrade? We Offer Patio Repair, Renovation, and Brand New Installation!
General Masonry Construction can help you plan and renovate your home’s patio with careful planning and design.
Patio Renovation is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure of buildings, staircase, patios, pools, and other masonry projects.
Over time, dirt, pollution, and other deteriorated masonry units can negatively affect the appearance of any property by lowering its value.
Over time deteriorated masonry materials may need patching or replacing to properly support the building’s brick and stone walls, as much as limestone patios, driveways, and walkways.
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Considering Bluestone Patio Installation?
Bluestone has a natural variety in color and is exceptionally durable. Bluestone is an extremely popular choice for commercial and residential properties. It is a porous stone which makes it a great surface for patios as well as pools, walkways, and sidewalks as it is slip resistant. Bluestone paving stones are a popular choice as it is strong and used often for patios and pathways around homes and businesses. General Masonry Construction will complete your bluestone patio installation to your home or business with skill and precision and you will love the results.
Paving stones like bluestone can be used for securely and ornately designing a surface around an area at your commercial or residential property. Around your home or business, you can use paving stones for patios, pathways, garden terraces, driveways, and for your pool area.
Quarried stone pavers are not identical to each other as they are natural stone and cut into their shapes rather than cast from a mold like other building materials. Thus, using natural stone pavers your masonry project will look authentic and classic while being durable and useful.
Bluestone pavers are used because they are a resilient and durable material that also adds an elegant and sophisticated look to your home’s patio. Using bluestone pavers for your patio design will add a nice story to your property, weaving in and out of your terrace and garden area where there was nothing before.
The natural paving stones make and inviting and welcoming guide to the company enjoying garden, walkways, and bluestone patio installation on the common grounds. Contact Us Today to Learn More about bluestone patio installation that is right for your residential or commercial construction project!
What are Different Types of Paving Stone?
Stone pavers come in all types of stone and virtually any stone can be cut into a paving stone. If it is quarried, like most stones are, it can be cut into a stone paver. Like Bluestone, which is extremely popular, other stones used for paving are Sandstone, Limestone, Cobblestone, and Travertine, which are all extremely popular in their own ways.
Different parts of the country yield more types of stone than others, therefore, you may find more stone products available in a particular region than others. Natural stone pavers are also a great choice from a durability and safety standpoint as they are a rough and grooved surface and can safeguard from creating a slick surface if it rains or snows.
Their skid resilient surfaces are great for homes and businesses with high traffic areas as they are safer than other materials that cannot combat the elements well such as rain, ice, and snow. They are also great due to their low maintenance and ease with replacement.
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Are Paving Stones Easy to Install?
Paving stones are quite easy to install and do not take an exceedingly long depending on the size of the area of your commercial or residential masonry project. For example, if you are installing a patio to your back yard or garden terrace, you would want to make sure there are no sewer or gas lines below the surface first then also make sure the ground is cleared and staked where your paving stone patio will be.
A professional can clear the soil from the area and lay a fabric cloth to defend your paving stone seams from weeds later and provide a clean area for installation. Next your installer will add a gravel base then a sand base your cleared soil area. After that, the magic happens, and your installer will carefully lay your natural stone pavers in the design you chose.
After your paving stones are all laid in place and secured in your sand and gravel bed, your installer will add sand to the top of your paving stones, brushing into the seams, and adding more until the seams are all filled and compact. Then your installer will clear the top of the paving stone of all sand leaving the tops of the paving stones clean and then will lightly spray water over your paving stones.
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Considering a Porcelain Paver Patio?
Porcelain pavers are an elegant way to finish the area surrounding your home’s patio or pool deck and is a great investment for your property. Like other paver products, porcelain pavers offer a secure and sound structure to walk on but add a touch of sophistication with its exquisite surface. Outdoor porcelain pavers are a solid material that is a great addition to your patio, pathways, walkways, pool deck, driveway, and even your roof.
A porcelain paver is durable and can withstand all the elements and is a safe and sound building material as it is a non-slip surface. Porcelain pavers are also skid, stain and frost resistant and are great surfaces for around your pool and patio and in your garden that might see a lot of water or a driveway that gets its fair amount of snow in the Winter and rain in the Spring.
Businesses often use porcelain pavers for their walkways and high traffic areas as they last long and their non-skid and slip safety qualities. Repairs are less frequent, and they provide a safe and sound surface for the public to utilize. A porcelain paver can have a wood grain look, a cement look, or a stone look to its appearance.
Mimicking classic building materials like stone, wood, and cement, your porcelain pavers will last longer than a cement paver or an actual wood flooring would with the same look but added durability and longevity as they are high load bearing materials and fade resistant.
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Are Porcelain Paver Patios Easy to Install?
Porcelain Paver Patios are extremely easy to install and the work can be completed in a day or two depending on the scale of the project.
General Masonry Construction will measure the area of where your new patio or walkway will be and find out your square footage.
Then we can determine how much product your will need for your paver installation project.
Outdoor porcelain pavers can be simply laid over grass or lawn beds and sand & gravel beds.
Any high traffic areas such as patios, walkways, gardens terraces, and pool decks should have a sand or topsoil surface for the porcelain pavers to securely be laid in.
For any load bearing surfaces like garage floors, driveways, and car ports having your pavers laid over a sound and solid concrete basing is necessary for optimal reinforcement.
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