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Exposed aggregate patios and alfresco areas, Sunshine Coast
The outdoor room, floored in stone. Alfresco slabs and patios washed to a fine, barefoot-friendly reveal that ties the house to the garden.
135$/m2
to $150, supply and install
a typical 25 m2 alfresco: $3,375 to $3,750
The alfresco slab works harder than any other surface at home: dining table, thoroughfare, kids’ floor, the stage for every summer evening. Exposed aggregate gives it what a plain slab and pavers both struggle to offer at once, a designed surface that grips wet, hides wear and runs seamless from the back door to the garden.
A finer reveal than the driveway
Patio work is where the wash is at its most careful. Smaller stone, a shallower reveal and an even hand produce a surface that looks richly textured and walks smooth, comfortable in bare feet from the first morning. Blends are chosen from the stone library against the house’s flooring line as much as its walls, because an alfresco slab is read from inside the room it extends.
One surface, indoors out
The strongest alfresco areas treat the slab as flooring. Level transitions at the door, joints planned where the shade line falls, and a sealed matte finish that photographs like stone rather than concrete. Where the patio meets a pool surround or a path, the same blend carries through so the whole rear of the block reads as one decision.
Built for the weather that uses it
An outdoor room on the coast gets summer storms, salt air and six months of hard sun. The slab under the finish is poured to the same specification as a driveway, 25 MPa and steel throughout, with falls set away from the house and joints cut on time. The finish standard has the full specification, and it does not thin out because the surface is decorative.
What it costs
$135 to $150 per m2 supplied and installed. The cost guide shows worked examples and the estimator turns your measurements into a working range. Every figure is a guide until the site has been measured; the written quote that follows it is the number that holds.
Exposed aggregate patios and alfresco run $135 to $150 per m2; the cost guide shows every figure worked through.
Stone and colour
The stone underneath the decision
Drawn as a guide to tone, not a promise of a product. Blends are confirmed on sample at the site measure, matched to your render, roof and landscaping.
Begin here
One visit turns this page into your number
The site measure is free and carries no obligation. It settles the ground, the levels and the stone, and it ends with one written figure that does not move.
Before you decide
Exposed aggregate patios and alfresco, answered
What does an exposed aggregate patio cost?
$135 to $150 per m2 supplied and installed. Most patios and alfresco areas run 20 to 40 m2, which lands the job between roughly $2,700 and $6,000 depending on size, blend and access. Every figure is a guide until the site has been measured; the written quote that follows it is the number that holds.
Is exposed aggregate comfortable in bare feet?
With the right blend, yes. Patios use smaller stone washed to a finer reveal than a driveway, so the surface reads textured but walks smooth. If the area cops full afternoon sun, a lighter blend also stays noticeably cooler underfoot than dark concrete.
Can the patio match our driveway or pool surround?
Yes, and it usually should. Running one blend across driveway, paths and alfresco is the simplest way to make the outdoor surfaces read as one designed decision. The blend can also be varied deliberately, lighter under the roofline, stonier in the garden, while keeping the same stone family.
Does an alfresco slab need falls?
Every outside slab does. The patio is set with a fall away from the house so storm water sheds to the garden or the drainage line, not the back door. It is a small number, invisible underfoot, and it is set at the measure not discovered in the first storm.