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Setting a budget for your patio is not extremely hard. Sticking to your budget and building a patio that you want with in your budget is hard. A budget is simply a figure that you decided on. When you set your budget you are saying you want to stay with a price limit you set. As a homeowner this is not a bad idea. A budget helps limit the money you are allowing yourself to spend. You will have to work with your landscape designer if you have one, or call around for the best prices if you are doing it yourself. Set your budget before you begin the project. You ask how do I set a budget? Well here is how you can set up a budget for your project.

Setting up your Budget
First, you have to decide how much money you are willing to put toward your project. If you have and idea of how much money you want to spend then set your budget. If you have no clue on what it will take to set your budget start calling around for prices.

A landscape designer, if you are going to hire one to complete the project, will work a budget up for you. He will work with you to stay in the range of your set budget. This will take little effort on your part to calculate cost of materials and time. Doing the project yourself will require a lot more planning and construction on a budget.

Now you need to figure out what supplies you are going to want. Lets start from the bottom up. All of the prices will be per square foot, cubic yard, or ton. Your price will vary depending on the square footage of your patio. The gravel base is the first item. Gravel cost around twelve dollars a ton. The sand is next. Sand will cost you around twelve dollars a ton. A ton will cover a different area depending on the product. Next, is your brick. Brick has no real set price. The cost of the brick will depend on what type or brick you buy and where you buy it. You can purchase brick anywhere from thirty three cents a brick to two dollars a brick Brick will be the most expensive material to purchase. Call around to suppliers in your area and visit them for prices and samples of the brick. They will be more than happy to help you.

Now lets look at rental. Doing the project yourself will require you do rent equipment. Call a local rental company and find out what their prices are. Prices may vary depending on what company you call. Call around and find the best price. An excavator will cost you anywhere between one hundred to two hundred dollars a day.. A compactor will also cost you between thirty and fifty dollars a day. Those are the two main tools you will need. If you rent more equipment your price will go up.

Doing the project yourself will cut the cost of labor. Labor cost will depend on the company you hire to install the patio. Labor cost can run from twenty dollars and hour to fifty dollars an hour. When you hire a company to install the patio for you they will include everything for the job in the estimate.

Cost
The cost of the job again will vary from job to job. The size of your patio will be the determining factor for your price. You can figure or the materials such as gravel, sand, and the brick to install them will run you six to eight dollars a square foot. This will give you a good idea of how much money you will spend on the project. This price does not include excavation and the rental for tools. This will give you a rough estimate of what your cost and budget will be like.

I hope this has helped you. It has just begun to scratch the surface on the cost and budget. The costs and budget associated with your project will be different from the next guy that crates a patio. No two patios will ever be the same in look and price. You can work out numbers on paper all day, but until you create your patio and have a design drawn you will not know exactly what your patio will cost. Be aware that once you start your project you may also run into unforeseen cost you never budgeted for. Leave some extra money budgeted for unforeseen items.