Essential Hardscape Tools to Transform a Backyard Aesthetic

When transforming a backyard’s aesthetic, it's important to consider hardscaping options to create an enjoyable, functional space. Consisting of pavers, pavement, retaining walls, and similar hard surfaces, hardscaping can enhance a backyard space to be more functional and aesthetically pleasing.
The results you’ll see are only achieved with proper tools, as low-quality tools or those intended for other industries can lead to poor results. Pave Tool Innovators was founded as a source of high-quality hardscape tools that make it easier for industry professionals to work efficiently and get professional results in their work, every time. What started as a relatively small business has grown into a major influence in the modern hardscaping industry!

Understanding Hardscaping and Its Benefits

Hardscaping is the non-living elements that are integrated into a landscaping design to create structure, add functionality, and beautify the space that is being transformed. Backyard hardscapes add strong durability, lower maintenance, and exceptional aesthetic appeal to the space, and are usually one part of a larger overall design for the space that may include landscaping and other features.

Because hardscaping is a specialized industry, it requires a range of unique tools that work well for several diverse hardscaping tasks such as placing pavers, building a retaining wall, placing rocks or stones, and grading a part of the project.

Key Hardscape Tools

Pave Tool Innovators was founded because of a lack of dedicated tools focused on the hardscaping industry. Many hardscapers had to make do with handmade tools, tools that were intended for other purposes, or tools that came from other industries.

In these examples, the tools would work somewhat for the task at hand, but they didn't provide a great fit for a professional finish, better ergonomics, or prevent accidents on the job site. Pave Tool Innovators stepped up and decided what these tools were missing; designing hardscape helpers, tools that were intended specifically for the challenges and materials commonly found in the hardscaping industry.

There is a wide range of essential tools that have been developed for the industry by Pave Tool, focusing specifically on a range of categories that include efficiency, precision, quality enhancement, and aesthetics. All of these tools are easily serviceable, with spare parts readily available for continued use. Here's a quick peek at some of the top sellers we have on our hardscape tools list:

Efficiency Tools

• Paver Puller: Designed to move smaller pavers, the Paver Puller allows you to precisely and quickly remove and replace pavers without a backache due to its long handles, even pressure, and ergonomic design that prevents smashed fingers.
• Paver Clamp: Paver clamps are designed to move larger, heavier, or bulkier blocks, bricks, and pavers more easily by providing a solid grip point for your hardscape helpers or heavy equipment to lift with, giving them a better grip on the heavy work.
• Tool Organizer: Because your tools work as hard as you do, you don't need to try to chase them down or protect them from the rainstorm that just popped up. This 7-drawer organizer includes spots for long-handled tools and is easily moved by hand truck.

Precision Tools

• Altimeters & Levels: Altimeters and laser levels keep your project level and provide a high level of precision in your measurements and placement, keeping your overall project laid out, precisely, and on level every time.
• Hammer & Mallets: Mallets (both short and long-handled) and adjusters help you with placement, giving you a perfect fit with the other items in your hardscaping plan so that your project will have a high-quality professional finish.

Quality Enhancement Tools

• Vacuum Lifter: Suction & vacuum lifters can be used in a backpack or an equipment-mounted format and use suction to provide easier lifting of large, heavy, or bulky material, especially larger pavers that can be difficult to lift or maneuver.
• Compaction Equipment: Compactors compress the soil and material in the bottom of a trench to prevent the settling of pavers, retaining walls, and similar structures down the road, and are available in electric and manual power formats. Pave Tool Innovators proudly offers Weber Compaction equipment to ensure the best in backyard hardscaping.

Aesthetic Tools

• Edging Restraints: Edging restraints are used to keep your edges in place by creating a solid edge against which your pavers are placed. This process prevents the shifting of your pavers, edgers, or other materials long into the future.
• Drainage & Ventilation: Drainage and ventilation tools will allow any moisture and air that lands on the surface to move throughout your hardscaping system, preventing it from becoming a pool in heavy rain or allowing your fire pit to have amazing ventilation and performance.

Tips for Selecting the Right Tools for Your Backyard Project

When you're selecting hardscape tools for your project, there are a few factors you need to take into account. Hardscape materials are heavy, sometimes too heavy, to manage without hardscape helpers or power paver tools.

How large is the project? What kind of hardscape materials are you using? What's your personal skill level? A DIY enthusiast may be able to get by with a standard-level, tape measure, tamper, shovel, and similar tools, but a professional often needs tools and materials that deliver superior efficiency and precision on the job site. You'll also want to undertake regular maintenance to keep your tools operating efficiently, including cleaning, sharpening, calibrating, replacing parts, and similar activities.

The Best Tools for Your Hardscape Project

Having the right hardscaping materials for your backyard aesthetic project can make the difference between a successful, professional-looking project that will reap referral business and a project that fails early, looks sloppy, or causes worker injury during construction.

The hardscape tools you'll find at Pave Tool Innovators have been field-tested in the hardscaping industry or designed in-house for exemplary performance. Take time to explore the many tools we have available to transform a backyards’ aesthetic with ease and precision, then locate your nearest dealer or contact our experts to learn more about our many hardscape tools available for your project!