We size the walk to the house and to how you use it, not to the builder's three foot default. On most front approaches that means four and a half to five feet, and it is the single change that makes the biggest difference.
The pad at your front door gets a real landing, deep enough to stand on with the storm door swinging and your hands full. Most builder walks stop short of this and you feel it every single day.
Surface is laid dead flat with no lipping between stones, so a steel shovel blade runs over it instead of catching. A walk that fights you in winter is a walk you resent by January.
Walkways heave for the same reason patios do, and the fix is the same. Excavation to depth, base compacted in layers, and the soft backfill strip near the foundation rebuilt rather than built over.
Tyler is on every project. The person who set the width and the grade is standing there while the base goes in.
Our warranty covers the build: excavation, base, bedding, laying, cutting, edge restraint and jointing. Paving stones carry their own manufacturer warranty, which we register for you.
Barkman is made here in Manitoba and goes into most of our installs, which matters more on a walkway than anywhere else because a replacement years from now has to match. Smaller format stones suit the scale of a walk better than large slabs in most cases.
The decisions that make a walkway good are made before any stone is chosen. How wide, where it curves, how big the landing is, and how the fall is set so water leaves the walk instead of sitting on it and freezing.
You call or submit a form with your project scope and location. Tyler or a team member responds within one business day with questions and preliminary guidance. If it sounds like a fit, we move to a site visit.
Tyler walks the approach with you, checks the grade from the street to the door, and lays the proposed width and curve out on the ground with marking paint so you can see it at full size before deciding. Stone, pattern and border options are discussed with samples available.
A detailed line-item proposal covers excavation, base, materials, labour and disposal of the old walk, with the width and excavation depth stated in writing. Once approved, we lock in a confirmed start date and order materials.
Utility locates are called first. The existing concrete is broken out and hauled away, we excavate to depth, and the base goes in compacted in layers with the backfill strip near the foundation rebuilt.
Stones are laid to the pattern with a soldier course run down both edges, every cut made clean, edges locked with restraint and joints filled with polymeric sand. The walk is compacted, swept and washed. Tyler walks it with you and explains the warranty.
Tell us about your project and we will help you figure out if Genesis is the right fit. No pressure, just an honest conversation about your space and your goals.
Tell us about your project and we will help you figure out if Genesis is the right fit. No pressure, just an honest conversation about your space and your goals.
