New patio, re-laying wobbly slabs you want to keep, or just sorting the weedy joints — pick your job and we'll tailor the materials, the advice and the honest cost.
Quick answer: A patio laid by a professional costs £75–£125 per m² in budget concrete, £85–£155 in Indian sandstone and £100–£180 in porcelain in 2026. The UK average is about £130 per m² fitted. A typical 25m² patio lands at £1,875–£4,500 depending on which slab you choose. Those fitted figures are the materials plus £45–£70 per m² of labour — the full dig-to-point job. If you already have slabs worth keeping, re-laying them properly costs just £20–£34 per m² in materials.
How an expert would do it: the patio is decided below the surface — 100mm of compacted MOT Type 1, a 40mm full wet mortar bed (never dot-and-dab), then your slab. Set the fall with string lines before slab one: 1:60–1:80 away from the house, finishing 150mm below the damp-proof course. Choose the slab last, not first: budget concrete, sandstone and porcelain all sit on the identical base.
How an expert would do it: this is the classic fix for slabs laid straight onto bare ground. Lift them carefully (bolster, pry from the edges, stack on their sides), expecting about 1 in 10 to crack — check yours are 30mm+ thick, thinner ones rarely survive. Dig out to ~150mm, compact 100mm of MOT Type 1, and re-lay each slab on a full wet mortar bed with a proper fall (1:60–1:80 away from the house) — that kills the wobble for good. Finish with brush-in jointing compound: that's what actually stops the weeds, which were never coming from below the slabs anyway — they seed into open joints from above. Budget a weekend per ~10m².
How an expert would do it: first the honesty test — stand on each corner of a few slabs. If nothing rocks, the base is fine and this is a one-afternoon job. Kill or pull the weeds, rake the old jointing out to ~20mm deep, sweep clean, wet the slabs, and brush in an all-weather jointing compound. If slabs do rock or have sunk, repointing is lipstick — the joints will crack again within a year; pick the re-lay option instead.
Not sure which? Stand on the slab corners. Nothing moves and you like the slabs → fix the joints. Wobbly or sunken but the slabs are good → re-lay them properly. Cracked, thin or just wrong → start fresh.
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Includes 10% waste — the UK standard for straight-laid slabs. Herringbone or curved designs need 15–25%.
These figures are planning estimates for a standard build-up (100mm compacted MOT Type 1, 40mm full mortar bed, 20–38mm slabs) on reasonable ground. Clay soils, poor access and levels needing build-up all add materials — and keep the finished surface at least 150mm below your damp-proof course.
💷 Where you can save on this job5 honest saves
Don't pave it all. Installers quote by the square metre, so bigger suits them. A 20m² patio wrapped in planting almost always looks better than 30m² of slabs — and every m² you don't pave saves £60–£130 at fitted rates. Decide the size from your furniture, not their quote: a 6-seat table needs about 12m².
Keep your slabs. If the slabs are sound and 30mm+, re-laying them on a proper base costs about a third of a new patio — that's the 'Re-lay my existing slabs' option above.
Do the demolition yourself. Breaking out an old patio and filling a skip is unskilled work that shows up on quotes at £20–£40 per m². A sledgehammer weekend is real money.
Buy slabs by the crate. Full patio packs run 20–30% under single-slab prices, and late-summer sales are when merchants clear stone lines.
Book the quiet season. November–February is when patio installers have gaps in the book — the same job quotes keener than it does in May.
What to actually buy (and where)
Every patio is four buys — the slabs, what goes under them, what goes in the joints, and a couple of tools you hire rather than own. Slabs travel by pallet, so where you buy changes as much as what you pay: we say where each slab type is actually bought, and where the budget option is a false economy.
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Pressed concrete slabs, 600x600mm, 35-38mm, riven or smooth
£25–£43/m² singles and packs (the £25 floor is a Wickes promo — £9 a slab, was £10.50; £29/m² at full price)
Forgiving to lay on a standard 40mm mortar bed, no primer, cuts with a cheap angle grinder and diamond disc — the tier we'd steer most first patios to. Riven hides mortar smears and winter grime; smooth looks modern but shows algae sooner. Honest caveat: the colour is a surface layer, so a chipped corner shows grey aggregate — worth knowing, not worth paying double to avoid. Buy from the sheds, singles or small packs.
Need slabs this weekend: B&Q and Wickes yards hold budget concrete slabs and small-bag bedding on click & collect — but only a thin slice of the online range (Wickes: 17 slab lines of 102), so check your store's stock online before driving. Fine for a £25–29/m² concrete patio; sandstone and porcelain are mostly delivery-only anyway. Mind the car: each 600mm slab is roughly 30kg.
Can wait 3–5 working days (most patios): Order full crated packs from an online paving specialist — sawn Kandla Grey sandstone was £31.66/m² delivered from Paving Superstore, typically 3–5 working days. The catch is kerbside tail-lift delivery: you need flat hard standing a big lorry can reach (grass and gravel are refused), you carry ~900kg in from the kerb yourself, and you inspect for breakages before the driver leaves.
20m²-plus, or more projects this year: Open a free trade account at a national merchant: Travis Perkins' sharp sand bulk bag drops from £75.24 to £67.50 with one, with free next-day delivery over £150. On multi-pallet orders, specialists like Paving Superstore will quote a crane (hiab) upgrade that lands the slabs on your drive — ask. Tradeoff: full crates front-load commitment, sign-up takes days, and branch counter prices vary by postcode.
Tempted to one-click the whole job?: Genuinely right for the parcel-sized kit — jointing compound, sealer, SBR: EASYJoint was £33.38 on Amazon (a small promo, list £34.29) against £52.79 at Travis Perkins. Genuinely wrong for slabs and aggregates: the same utility slab ran ~£35/m² via marketplace sellers vs ~£26/m² at Wickes, a sharp sand bulk bag £88 vs £78 — the same pallet constraints as a specialist, disclosed only in the small print.
🧱 Slabs (where each type is actually bought)4 honest picks
Most patios
Pressed concrete slabs, 600x600mm, 35-38mm, riven or smooth£25–£43/m² singles and packs (the £25 floor is a Wickes promo — £9 a slab, was £10.50; £29/m² at full price) Forgiving to lay on a standard 40mm mortar bed, no primer, cuts with a cheap angle grinder and diamond disc — the tier we'd steer most first patios to. Riven hides mortar smears and winter grime; smooth looks modern but shows algae sooner. Honest caveat: the colour is a surface layer, so a chipped corner shows grey aggregate — worth knowing, not worth paying double to avoid. Buy from the sheds, singles or small packs.Marshalls Richmond Smooth at Wickes →
Real stone, mid budget
Calibrated 22mm Indian sandstone patio packs, mixed sizesFrom £22.79/m² in 15–19m² crated packs (online specialists); £43.86–£48.61/m² at Wickes The word calibrated is the whole game — machine-milled to an even 22mm so your mortar bed stays consistent; uncalibrated hand-split stone is cheaper per m² and miserable to lay. Buy a mixed-size pack from an online specialist (crated, pallet-delivered) and dry-lay first: colour varies slab to slab, and that variation is the look, not a defect. It marks and weathers — if you want year five to look like day one, that's porcelain's job.Kandla Grey packs at Stone Paving Direct →
Set-and-forget
20mm outdoor porcelain, R11 slip rating, rectified edges£24–£58/m² in packs at B&Q (e.g. County 18-pack £399 = £41.05/m²) Stain-proof, fade-proof, jet-washes clean — and the fussiest slab here. Every slab back needs priming slurry on a full mortar bed; skip it and slabs rock within a year or two. Cuts want a hired wet saw — an angle grinder chips the edges. Buy the biggest pack that covers the job: B&Q's County range drops 29% per m² between the 6-pack and 18-pack. First patio? Concrete is far more forgiving — read the 5 things that catch people out first.20mm porcelain packs at B&Q →
Shed bases and bin stores
BS-pressed 'council' flags, 600x600x50mm£29.64/m² singles collected; £33–£41/m² delivered packs (Amazon: 10 for £140, 12 for £143) Buy these for toughness where nobody looks — shed bases, bin stores, oil tanks — not to save money on a patio you'll see: at £33–41/m² delivered they no longer undercut a plain smooth slab, and the pimple-grey municipal look is exactly what it sounds like. Amazon's Marshalls packs beat B&Q's £41.32/m² delivered pack — but they're crane offload from a flat-bed lorry only, so check the lorry can reach you before ordering.View on Amazon →
🪨 Sub-base and bed (under the slabs)4 honest picks
Every patio
MOT Type 1 sub-base, 850kg bulk bag£75 per 850kg bag at Wickes (2 for £135) / £78 at B&Q The 100mm compacted foundation is the one layer not to trim — skipping or thinning it is the false economy that cracks patios. The label must say MOT Type 1, not 'hardcore' or 'crusher run'. Plan on ~4m² per bag at patio depth and ignore the sheds' headline coverage figures — they're quoted at much shallower depths. Past three bags, a merchant's loose tipped load usually wins per tonne.MOT Type 1 jumbo bag at Wickes →
The 40mm mortar bed
Washed sharp (grit) sand, bulk bag£41.98 per 790kg bag (B&Q) vs £75 per 800kg (Wickes, 2 for £135 mix and match) Sharp sand — coarse and gritty between the fingers — not building sand, which stays spongy under slabs. The shed gap is unusually wide right now: B&Q's bulk bag is £41.98 against Wickes' £75, so shop this one. Small 22.5kg bags run about three times the per-tonne cost — fine for a repair, a waste for a whole patio. Buy all your bags from one shed so you pay one bulky-delivery fee (Wickes charges from £35).Sharp sand bulk bag at B&Q →
Nothing to upgrade
General-purpose cement, 25kg (mixed roughly 4:1 with the sharp sand)£7.50 per 25kg bag (Blue Circle, Wickes and B&Q) Genuinely fine — this is the one place where cheap is simply correct. Own-brand or Blue Circle GP both do the job; upgrades like Mastercrete buy a more weather-tolerant bag, not a stronger patio. Buy fresh, plastic-wrapped bags (lumpy cement has gone off), budget very roughly one bag per 2m² of full bed, and collect it with the sand — nobody sensible pays courier rates on 25kg of cement.Blue Circle cement at Wickes →
Porcelain only
SBR bond admixture, 5L — mixed with cement into a priming slurry£22.50 per 5L (Everbuild 503, B&Q); £21.50 (Bond It 5L, Amazon) Porcelain barely absorbs water, so slabs laid on plain mortar are prone to debonding — brushing an SBR-cement slurry onto each slab back is what makes them stick. Skip it entirely for concrete or sandstone. A 5L jug ships fine by courier, but check the price first: the flagship Everbuild listing carried Amazon's own 'Price higher than typical' flag — only buy there at or under B&Q's £22.50.View on Amazon →
🧴 Jointing and sealing (on top)4 honest picks
Sandstone and concrete joints
All-weather brush-in jointing compound, 12.5–14kg tub£31–£34.50 per tub (Sika FastFix 14kg, EASYJoint 12.5kg) Sweep in, mist with water, done — and it flexes instead of popping out the first winter the way hard pointing can. Ignore the tub's headline coverage: it's quoted at the tightest joint the product accepts (Sika's '20m²' assumes 5mm joints). Riven sandstone with 10–15mm joints gets nearer 6–8m² per tub, so a 20m² patio is about three tubs, not one. Colour matters more than brand — the big names are within a few pounds of each other.View on Amazon →
Porcelain joints
Two-part epoxy slurry jointing mortar, 25kg tub£155 per 25kg tub (GftK vdw 850+, ~40m² at 10mm x 10mm joints) Porcelain's tight joints and sealed face are where brush-in compounds fail — too little joint volume to grip. The slurry squeegees across the whole surface and washes off, leaving dense joints that shrug off jet washing; at ~£4/m² it's often cheaper per square metre than three tubs of brush-in, despite the scary tub price. You won't find it in the usual online baskets — buy from paving specialists. If two-part mixing puts you off, EASYJoint Select (~£38) is a porcelain-rated halfway house.GftK vdw 850+ at Paving Superstore →
Sand-and-cement pointing
25kg cement + 25kg building sand, mixed 1:4, pointed in by trowelAbout £11 total: cement 25kg £7.50 + building sand 25kg £3.50 (Wickes) Genuinely fine for concrete slabs on a solid base where a £90 saving beats a weekend — it has jointed British patios for a century. The real terms: a full day on your knees, a dry weather window needed, a sloppy mix permanently stains sandstone, and rigid joints are the first thing to crack when the ground moves. False economy for porcelain (joints too tight to point) and for anyone valuing the day at more than about £10 an hour.
Sealer — if at all
Patio sealer, 5L — impregnating/breathable for natural stone£19.95–£34 per 5L (Sika Path & Patio, Thompson's One Coat); premium stone sealers £75–£120 Half of sealer spend does nothing, so: porcelain — never, it's vitrified and sealer just dries as a smeary film. Sandstone — only for cooking and dining areas or the wet-look colour boost; choose impregnating/breathable, never film-forming, and wait several dry weeks after laying. Concrete — optional; a cheap acrylic slows the green film. Where it does earn its keep, a £20–£35 tub every few years is cheap insurance against BBQ and oil stains.View on Amazon →
🔨 Tools you hire, not buy3 honest picks
Every patio
Wacker plate (compactor plate) The 100mm MOT Type 1 sub-base must be compacted in layers — hand-tamping does not work, and a wacker plate is a one-day tool you'd use once a decade, so hire it.Hire it (HSS) →
Mortar-bed days
Cement mixer (electric drum) A full 40mm mortar bed means mixing sand and cement by the tonne, not the bucket — hand-mixing on a board is how the bed goes inconsistent by mid-afternoon. Hire one for the laying days and give it back.Hire it (HSS) →
Porcelain cuts only
Wet diamond saw (bench cutter)Hire ~£100–£120 An angle grinder chips porcelain edges; a wet saw doesn't. Only worth hiring for porcelain — concrete and sandstone cut fine with a grinder and a cheap diamond disc.Hire it (HSS) →
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4 Plan what else you need
Three ways to take this forward — pick yours. Doing it yourself → the kit, stage by stage (below — each stage opens Amazon). Hiring someone → get three quotes pricing the same spec. Doing more than the patio → plan the whole job.
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📅 How the job actually goes5 stages
Before day one: Materials arrive on pallets (they'll need somewhere to sit), and the garden needs clear access. Move pots, plan for the skip.
Day 1 — the dig: Excavation to ~200mm and spoil away. The noisy, messy day — a 25m² patio produces around 5 tonnes of spoil.
Day 1–2 — the base: MOT Type 1 spread and compacted in layers with a wacker plate. This is the moment to look: a proper base looks like a firm car-park surface, not loose rubble. Once it's covered, you're trusting it forever.
Day 2–3 — laying: Full mortar bed, slabs laid to string lines, falls checked slab by slab. Porcelain gets a primer slurry on each slab back.
Final morning: Jointing brushed or pointed in, clean-down, sealant if quoted. Keep furniture off for 48 hours.
🛡️ Before you hire anyone2-min read
A proper written quote itemises:
The exact slab (brand, range, thickness) and the m² rate
Sub-base spec in millimetres — you want '100mm compacted MOT Type 1', not just 'hardcore'
Full wet mortar bed confirmed — not spot/dot-and-dab bedding
Excavation, spoil removal and the skip
Whether jointing, sealing and VAT are in or extra
Questions that sort pros from cowboys:
What sub-base depth will you lay, and compacted with what?
Full mortar bed or dots? (The only right answer is a full bed)
What fall will you set, and where does the water go?
Can I see the base before the slabs go down?
Walk away if:
A big cash deposit (over ~25%) or 'cash only'
No written quote — a number over the phone is not a quote
'We can start tomorrow' — good installers are booked out
Won't put a number on the sub-base depth
Booking: Good patio installers book 4–8 weeks ahead from spring. A 25m² patio is a 3–4 day job for a two-person team.
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New to paving? 30-second primer
Concrete slabs are man-made paving — the cheapest type, and the easiest to lay.
Indian sandstone is real stone, with natural colour changes from slab to slab. Porcelain is a very hard tile baked for outdoor use — it stays looking new but is trickier to lay.
Whichever slab you pick, every patio sits on the same base of packed crushed stone underneath — and it's the base, not the slab, that decides whether your patio stays flat.
How we work it out
A patio is built in layers, like a sandwich, and we price it from the bottom up. First comes 100mm of compacted MOT Type 1 — crushed stone that packs down hard, the base under almost every path and patio ("compacted" just means squashed down firm with a machine). This layer is called the sub-base. On top goes a 40mm full wet mortar bed — a wet mix of 4 parts sharp sand to 1 part cement that the slab beds into. Then the slab itself: 20mm porcelain, 22mm natural stone or 32–38mm concrete. We count all four layers from your patio size, add 10% slab waste to cover cuts and breakages, and price the materials at July-2026 retail.
Two numbers people often get wrong. First, how far a bag of sub-base stone goes: an 850kg bag covers only ~4m² at proper patio depth — retailer claims of "13.5m² per bag" assume a thin decorative layer, not a patio. Second, the fall — the gentle slope that lets rainwater run off. Your patio must slope away from the house at roughly 1:60 to 1:80 (about 12–17mm of drop per metre), and the finished surface must sit at least 150mm below the damp-proof course — the waterproof strip built low into your house wall that stops damp creeping up. Water sitting against the wall above that strip causes damp inside the house.
What's under a patio that stays flat: the slab is the thinnest part. Diagram free to reuse with credit and a link to this page.
Prices checked July 2026 against Wickes, B&Q, stone merchants and trade cost guides. Rounded ranges, not quotes.
What patios cost in the UK (2026)
Item
Typical range
Budget concrete slabs (supply)
£8–£30 per m²
Riven / textured concrete (supply)
£25–£55 per m²
Indian sandstone, calibrated (supply)
£20–£60 per m²
Limestone (supply)
£20–£45 per m²
Porcelain — value / branded (supply)
£19–£25 / £42–£85 per m²
MOT Type 1 (850kg bag ≈ 4m² at 100mm)
£50–£80
Sharp sand (850kg bag) / cement (25kg)
£42–£105 / £7.50
Labour, full job (dig → point)
£45–£70 per m²
Old patio removal + skip
£20–£40 per m² + £150–£350
Worked examples — fitted prices
Patio size
Concrete slabs
Sandstone
Porcelain
Small — 15 m²
£1,125–£1,875
£1,275–£2,325
£1,500–£2,700
Typical — 25 m²
£1,875–£3,125
£2,125–£3,875
£2,500–£4,500
Large — 40 m²
£3,000–£5,000
£3,400–£6,200
£4,000–£7,200
Fitted prices rechecked 30 July 2026. Each figure is the materials band above plus £45–£70 per m² of labour, so the tables add up. The 2026 trade-guide average across all slab types is ~£130 per m² fitted, which sits inside the sandstone band. A two-person team lays about 7m² a day, so a 25m² patio takes 3–4 days. Doing it yourself roughly halves these totals, because labour is half the bill.
What moves the price
• Slab choice — the same patio can cost 3× more in branded porcelain than in budget concrete. The work underneath is identical.
• What's there now — breaking up and carting away an old patio adds £20–£40 per m², plus a skip, before a single new slab goes down.
• Ground and access — clay soil needs a deeper stone base because it moves as it gets wet and dries out. And if there's no way round the side of the house, every tonne of stone gets carried through it.
• Porcelain premium — porcelain needs a primer slurry (a thin cement mix painted on the back of each slab so it sticks) and special cutting kit, and it's less forgiving to lay — so fitting costs more than stone.
• Pattern — herringbone (a zig-zag layout) and curves mean more cutting, so allow 15–25% waste, not 10%.
• Region — London and the South East run 15–25% higher; the North typically 10–15% lower.
Common questions
How much does a patio cost in the UK in 2026?
Fitted by a professional, budget on £75–£125 per m² for budget concrete slabs, £85–£155 for Indian sandstone and £100–£180 for porcelain. Each of those is the slab and base materials plus £45–£70 per m² of labour for the full dig-to-point job. The 2026 trade-guide average across all types is about £130 per m². A typical 25m² patio lands around £2,100–£3,900 fitted. Doing it yourself roughly halves that, because labour is 50%+ of the bill.
Can I re-use my existing patio slabs?
Usually, yes — and it saves real money, because the slabs are the expensive part. Lift them carefully and expect about 1 in 10 to crack. Slabs thinner than ~30mm rarely survive lifting. Re-lay them on a proper base — 100mm of crushed stone, packed down firm, with each slab set on a full bed of wet mortar — and old slabs sit as solid as new ones. The wobble was never the slabs' fault. It was whatever they were (or weren't) laid on.
How do I stop weeds growing between patio slabs?
The weeds aren't pushing up from underneath. They land as seeds from above and grow in open or crumbling joints (the gaps between the slabs). The fix is sealed joints: rake out the old filler, then brush in an all-weather jointing compound — a ready-mixed filler that sweeps into the gaps and sets hard (£3–£6 per m², one afternoon). A weed membrane under the patio does very little for joint weeds, because that's not where they come from. Good joints do everything.
How much sub-base does a patio need?
100mm of compacted MOT Type 1 — crushed stone that packs down hard, the base under almost every path and patio (150mm for driveways). Pack it down in layers with a wacker plate — a powered machine that vibrates the stone flat, cheap to hire for a day. One 850kg bulk bag covers only about 4m² at that depth. Be careful with retailer claims of '13.5m² per bag' — they assume a thin 40mm decorative layer, not a patio. Skimping on this layer is why patios sink and rock.
What fall does a patio need?
The fall is the gentle slope that makes rainwater run off instead of pooling. You need about 1:60 to 1:80, sloping away from the house — that's 12–17mm of drop per metre. Set it with string lines before the first slab goes down. Two more rules with no wiggle room: keep the finished surface at least 150mm below your damp-proof course (the waterproof strip low in your house wall that stops damp rising), and never let a patio cover an airbrick — the vented brick that lets air flow under your floor.
Do I need planning permission for a patio?
In a back garden, almost never — patios count as permitted development, which means you can build one without asking the council (listed buildings and conservation areas are the exception). Front gardens are different: paving over 5m² with an impermeable surface (one that water can't soak through) needs permission, unless the water drains to a lawn, border or soakaway — a gravel-filled pit that lets water soak into the ground. Surfaces water can drain through, like gravel, need no permission at any size.
Porcelain, sandstone or concrete slabs?
Concrete is the cheapest (£8–£30/m²) and looks better than it used to. Indian sandstone (£20–£60/m²) is the classic real-stone choice, but it needs sealing and a clean now and then. Porcelain (£19–£85/m²) is a very hard outdoor tile — almost no upkeep, and stains wipe off — but it's fussier to lay: each slab needs a primer slurry (a thin cement mix painted on its back so it sticks) and clean cutting, so fitting costs run higher too. Read the 5 things that catch people out first.
Can I lay a patio myself?
Yes — it's honest hard work rather than dark art. You dig out 150–200mm of ground, barrow several tonnes of stone, pack it down firm in layers, then lay each slab on a full bed of wet mortar with a slight slope for rainwater. A confident DIYer does a small patio over 2–3 weekends; a two-person pro team does about 7m² a day. If you DIY, hire a wacker plate — the powered machine that packs the stone base down flat (£35–£50 a day). Stamping it down by hand doesn't work, and a loose base is why patios sink.
📋 Where these prices come from39 sources
Every price band on this page traces to a source we checked ourselves, with the date we checked it. Prices move — if one of these looks out of date, tell us and we'll recheck it.
slab supply £/m² by type; installed bands; 25m² avg £3,250checkatrade.comchecked July 2026
MOT Type 1 jumbo £75, 7.7m²@50mm; sharp sand jumbo £75wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
MOT ≈4m²/bag at 100mm compacted; sand 15m²/bag at 40mm; cement 0.45 bag/m²; waste 10%materialcalculator.co.ukchecked July 2026
porcelain value £19-25/m², branded £42-85/m²; SBR primer neededuniversalpaving.co.ukchecked July 2026
front garden >5m² impermeable needs permission; permeable exemptplanningportal.co.ukchecked July 2026
Marshalls Pendle Riven Grey 600x600x38mm £15.50/slab, £43.06/m2, 32kg/slab, delivery from £5, big-and-bulky charges may apply over 375kgwickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Marshalls Richmond Smooth Natural 600x600x38mm concrete at Wickes: £9/slab promotional price (was £10.50), £25/m2 on promo, £29.17/m2 at full price, utility positioningwickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Bradstone Peak utility slab 600x600x35mm single £10.67 (£29.64/m2) at B&Qdiy.comchecked July 2026
B&Q Council Slab 600x600 16-pack £238 (£41.32/m2), free home delivery, no click & collectdiy.comchecked July 2026
Marshalls Indian Sandstone Riven Grey Multi 600x600, calibrated 22mm, £17.50/slab (£48.61/m2), pack deal 38 for £600 (~£43.86/m2, ~10% saving)wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
B&Q 20mm porcelain 600mm-wide packs: County Quartz Grey 18-pack £399 (£41.05/m2), 12-pack £295 (£45.52/m2), 6-pack £188 (£58.02/m2) — 29% per-m2 saving 6-pack to 18-pack; Brazilian Slate Anthracite 40-pack £518.82 (£24.02/m2); Paving Stones Direct Galaxy Gris £32.50/m2diy.comchecked July 2026
Porcelain laying requirements 2026: priming slurry on every slab back (~£50-60 per 25m2, SBR 5L covers 25m2), wet diamond saw for cuts (hire ~£100-120); budget outdoor porcelain from ~£19-20/m2 market-wideuniversalpaving.co.ukchecked July 2026
Amazon UK live listing, verified in browser: Marshalls Council Paving Slabs BSS Pressed Natural Grey Pimple 600x600x50mm — 10 for £140 (£38.89/m2), 4.8 stars/127 reviews, in stock, free mainland-UK scheduled delivery; related live packs 12 for £143 and 14 for £167 (~£33/m2); no 16-pack exists; crane offload only, flat-bed lorry access required, no manual offload; wider Amazon slab results dominated by plastic decking tiles and jointing compounds — no sensible decorative/porcelain crate routeamazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
B&Q MOT type 1 subbase bulk bag: £78, headline coverage claim '13.5m²' (shallow-depth figure, not the 100mm patio depth; page notes coverage depends on depth laid)diy.comchecked July 2026
Wickes Suburban Build Sharp Sand - Jumbo Bag (800kg minimum fill): £75, multibuy 2 for £135 marked Mix & Match; Big & Bulky delivery from £35wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Wickes Suburban Build Sharp Sand - Major Bag (22.5kg): £3.50wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
B&Q Sharp sand bulk bag (790kg per listing slug): £41.98diy.comchecked July 2026
Blue Circle General Purpose Cement 25kg = £7.50 at Wickes (standard price, in stock)wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Suburban Build Building Sand major bag = £3.50 at Wickes, click-and-collect availablewickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
B&Q Everbuild 503 SBR Bond 5 litre: £22.50, standard price not a promotiondiy.comchecked July 2026
Amazon UK Everbuild 503 SBR 5L listing (opened in browser): no standard buybox — 'See All Buying Options' — and Amazon's own 'Price higher than typical' flag shown; Amazon's alternatives carousel on the same page showed Bond It 5L SBR at £21.50 and the newer Sika SikaBond SBR 5L at £20.91 (in stock)amazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
Sika FastFix All Weather 14kg = £34 (standard price, not a promo), coverage 20m2 at joints over 5mm wide and 20mm deeptrade-point.co.ukchecked July 2026
Sika FastFix 14kg Deep Grey on Amazon UK (B07NZ6VCZG): £31.00 at check, Subscribe & Save £29.45, third-party offers from £29.40 — Amazon price fluctuates below the £34 merchant price; listing title states coverage up to 20 sq mamazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
EASYJoint 12.5kg = £32.70 inc VAT (standard price, not a promo), average coverage ~7m2 per tub depending on slab size and joint width, joints at least 3mm widedrainagesuperstore.co.ukchecked July 2026
Amazon UK: EASYJoint 12.5kg £33.38-£34.50 (4.4 stars, ~2.6K ratings); EASYJoint Select porcelain 12.5kg £37.35-£38.00; EASYGrout Flow Slurry porcelain 15kg £43 covers up to 20m2amazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
GftK vdw 850+ two-part epoxy 25kg = £155 (2-3 tubs £147 each, 4-20 tubs £140), ~40m2 per tub at 10mm x 10mm joints, for natural stone, concrete and porcelain; water-permeable, frost and de-icing salt resistant, suitable for patios, driveways and highways applicationspavingsuperstore.co.ukchecked July 2026
Amazon UK search for GftK vdw 850 returns no GftK listings (only Joint It, Rompox and own-label alternatives) — two-part porcelain epoxy is not Amazon-fitamazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
Thompson's One Coat Patio & Paving Sealer 5L = £34 at Wickes, coverage 6m2 per litrewickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Amazon UK sealer prices: Sika Path & Patio Sealer 5L £19.95 (4.3 stars, ~3K ratings); SmartSeal Natural Stone Dry Finish 5L £74.95; Resiblock Colour Enhancer 5L £120.27 — Amazon pricing in line with specialists for parcel-sized sealersamazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
Wickes paving slabs: 17 products on 15-min C&C / in-store vs 102 home delivery; Marshalls Richmond 450x450x32 £5.30/slab (£26.17/m²); 600x600x38 £9/slab on promotion, was £10.50 (£25/m² at promo price, £29.17/m² at full price); full packs ~£300-820wickes.co.ukchecked July 2026
Paving Superstore: kerbside tail-lift pallet delivery included in prices for most of UK; +£25/pack blue zone, +£65 red zone; express next-day £20/pallet, Saturday £45; hard flat surface required (no grass/earth/gravel); larger orders upgraded to crane (hiab)/moffett offload where possible — no stated pallet threshold, quote on requestpavingsuperstore.co.ukchecked July 2026
Sawn & honed Kandla Grey sandstone full pack £482 / 15.22m² = £31.66/m², free standard delivery 3-5 working days; split packs by phone onlypavingsuperstore.co.ukchecked July 2026
Travis Perkins grit/sharp sand bulk bag (min 800kg) £75.24 inc VAT retail vs £67.50 trade price ('unlock 10% off'); free next-day delivery over £150; free 15-min click & collect; MOT Type 1 bulk bag £75.24; Azpects EASYJoint £52.79travisperkins.co.ukchecked July 2026
EASYJoint 12.5kg Stone Grey £33.38 (£2.67/kg) on Amazon UK — a -3% promo, list £34.29; in stock, free delivery, sold/shipped by third party (Build and Plumb Materials Online); Sika FastFix 15kg £33.74 Fulfilled by Amazonamazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
Amazon slab benchmark: Marshalls council flags 10x 600x600x50 £140 (≈£38.90/m²), sold by third party (Buildershopuk), with 'CRANE OFF LOADED ONLY' + flat-bed access requirement in description; Marshalls Richmond Utility Buff 450x450x32 pack of 10 £72.02 (≈£35.60/m²) vs £26.17/m² at Wickes; Grit Sharp Sand bulk bag 825kg £88amazon.co.ukchecked July 2026
patio labour-only £35–£70/m²; landscaper day rate £200–£360; concrete £50–£120/m², porcelain/slate £130–£180/m²mybuilder.comchecked July 2026
Doing more than just the patio?
We'll carry this over — your patio and the size you just worked out — and you can add
anything else you're thinking about: clearance, paving, decking, fencing, lawn, driveways, planting.
You end up with one brief to send to three landscapers, so they all price the same job and you can
see which one has quietly left something out.
Doing it yourselves? It sizes your materials list too. Already holding a quote?
It gives you the same numbers we'd check it against.
Set-and-forget
Shed bases and bin stores
Plan a whole makeoverDecide what you want and what it's worth — before anyone quotes you.
Gravel & chippingsHow much you need, so the path doesn't end up half-covered.
DeckingWhat the timber costs, and what a fitter would charge for the same deck.
Block pavingWhere the money actually goes — the blocks are the small part.