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Exposed aggregate paths and entertaining areas

Side paths, front paths, garden paths and outdoor kitchen pads, poured at full slab thickness in the same stone as the rest of the property.

$130 to $180 per m², supplied and laid. Prices may vary with site conditions and variations; the written quote after a site measure is fixed.

Paths are where exposed aggregate quietly outworks every alternative: no pavers to sink and trip on, no gravel to migrate into the lawn, and a surface that grips in the wet on the shaded side of a house where moss takes hold. Poured in the same stone as the driveway or patio, they tie the whole block together.

Every path, built like a driveway

The register of path failures is short and always the same: poured thin, poured on soft ground, no steel. Every path here is poured at 100mm full slab thickness on compacted base with mesh on chairs, per the specification, with falls set so water moves off the path and away from the building line. That is why the rate is close to a driveway rate, and why the path outlasts the fence beside it.

Where they go

Side paths and front paths carry the traffic, garden paths carry the design, and outdoor kitchen and barbecue pads carry the furniture: all the same build, finished in stone chosen from samples on site. For barefoot routes between pool and door, the finer 7mm stones read best; for a front path doing street duty, the same blend as the driveway makes the frontage read as one decision. The colours and stone guide covers the combinations.

Priced honestly, cheapest when paired

$130 to $180 per m² supplied and laid, washed and sealed after cure. On its own a path carries the full mobilisation; poured with a patio or driveway it shares it, and the saving is real. The cost guide publishes every rate, and the calculator prices your metres in seconds.

Charcoal fleck exposed aggregate over an off white paste
Charcoal fleck over off white paste

Where we pour exposed aggregate paths

Balwyn North, Bentleigh, Blackburn, Box Hill, Brighton, Camberwell, Doncaster, Glen Waverley, Hampton, Mentone, Mount Waverley, Templestowe and nearby: where we work.

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Send this for a free quote, or get a rough figure first in the cost calculator.

How a job runs

Five stages, each signed off before the next

  1. 01

    Site measure and samples

    The area, the levels, the access and the ground, measured on site. Stone and paste samples viewed wet and dry against your walls in daylight, not from a brochure.

  2. 02

    Written quote

    One fixed written quote for the scope measured. Any council crossover permit your job needs is identified here, before anything is booked.

  3. 03

    Form, base and steel

    Boxing to the lines, base material brought in and compacted where the ground needs it, steel mesh on chairs. The day that decides how the slab performs.

  4. 04

    Pour, wash and cure

    The decorative mix poured and screeded, surface retarder applied, and the paste washed off inside its window to reveal the stone evenly. Then the surface is kept curing.

  5. 05

    Seal and handover

    Sealed after cure with the sealer suited to the surface, wet look or natural. The reseal interval and care notes are put in writing at handover.

Questions

Exposed aggregate paths questions

What does an exposed aggregate path cost?

$130 to $180 per m² supplied and laid. A 15 m² side path lands between roughly $1,950 and $2,700 on its own, and meaningfully less per metre when poured alongside a driveway or patio, because the truck and the wash-off are already there. Prices may vary with site conditions and variations; the written quote after a site measure is fixed.

Why is a small path priced higher per metre than a driveway?

The truck, the crew and the wash-off cost close to the same whether the pour is 15 m² or 60 m², so small areas carry more of that fixed cost per metre. Pairing the path with any other pour is the single best way to bring the rate down.

How thick is a path poured?

100mm, the same full slab thickness as a driveway, on compacted base with steel mesh on chairs. A path poured thin is where cheap quotes hide their saving, and it is why paths crack early. The specification page covers the build in full.

Can a path match my existing exposed aggregate?

A close match is achievable when the stone source and paste colour are known, and a sample against the existing surface is the reliable check. New work starts cleaner than weathered concrete and settles towards it over time.

Next step

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