Elevated Hardscape brings the beauty, durability and permanence of traditional hardscape materials to outdoor spaces above ground.
Instead of limiting natural stone, porcelain and pavers to patios and other ground-supported surfaces, Elevated Hardscape makes it possible to use these materials on decks, balconies, rooftops, stairs and other elevated structures.
StoneDeks is the structural system that makes Elevated Hardscape possible.
Hardscape Is No Longer Limited to the Ground
For generations, outdoor construction has largely been divided into two worlds.
Decks go up. Hardscapes stay down.
Decks give homeowners the freedom to build above grade, over slopes, outside second-story doors and wherever the architecture requires elevation. But those spaces have traditionally been surfaced with wood or composite decking.
Hardscape offers the permanence, beauty and design freedom of natural stone, porcelain, brick and concrete pavers—but traditionally requires a ground-supported base or substantially different structural construction.
Elevated Hardscape brings those two worlds together.
It gives designers, builders and homeowners the ability to create elevated outdoor living spaces finished with the same premium hardscape materials traditionally associated with patios, courtyards and landscapes.
What Makes Elevated Hardscape Different?
Elevated Hardscape isn’t simply another type of decking material.
It changes the finished surface itself.
Instead of choosing among wood, composite or PVC deck boards, the finished outdoor surface can be created from materials traditionally associated with premium hardscaping.
That opens a different palette of materials, textures, patterns and architectural possibilities.
Natural Stone
Travertine, flagstone and other compatible natural stone materials can create an outdoor surface with the character and permanence of masonry.
Porcelain Pavers
Porcelain offers an enormous range of contemporary finishes, colors and patterns while providing a durable, low-maintenance outdoor surface.
Concrete and Brick Pavers
Pavers allow designers to bring familiar hardscape patterns and materials into elevated spaces.
StoneDeks currently states that compatible surface products from ¾” to 3″ thick can be used with the system, subject to the system’s technical requirements.
Elevated Hardscape for New Construction
Don’t Start With the Deck Board. Start With the Space You Want to Create.
When Elevated Hardscape is considered at the beginning of a project, homeowners, builders and designers have greater freedom to think about the outdoor space as part of the architecture of the home.
Materials can flow visually from patios to elevated decks.
A second-story outdoor space can feel more like a stone terrace than a conventional deck.
Pool areas can transition between ground-level and elevated surfaces using complementary materials.
The question becomes less:
“Which deck board should we use?”
and more:
“What do we want this outdoor space to become?”
Built Around a Bigger Idea: Permanent Outdoor Living
Outdoor living shouldn’t have to feel temporary.
StoneDeks believes homeowners should be able to create outdoor spaces with the same attention to materials, architecture and longevity they expect inside their homes.
That’s the idea behind Permanent Outdoor Living.
Elevated Hardscape expands where that idea can go.
Instead of accepting that elevated spaces must be finished like traditional decks, homeowners and professionals can bring the material character of hardscape into those spaces as well.
Permanent Outdoor Living is the vision.
Elevated Hardscape is one way we make it possible.
Why we believe this is bigger than a new kind of deck: Read why we see Elevated Hardscape as a new category in outdoor living.
More Than an Idea. Proven in the Real World.
2.5 MILLION+
square feet of SilcaGrate installed
19 YEARS
in business
582
installers and dealers
StoneDeks reports more than 2.5 million square feet of SilcaGrate installed across residential and commercial projects, along with 19 years in business and a network of hundreds of installers and dealers.
StoneDeks also maintains technical specifications, design tables, CAD resources and an ICC-ES evaluation-report resource for SilcaGrate.
Who Is Elevated Hardscape For?
Homeowners
Create a beautiful outdoor living space using real stone, porcelain or pavers—whether you’re replacing an aging deck or starting from scratch.
Deck Builders & Installers
Expand beyond traditional deck-board choices and offer clients premium hardscape finishes using familiar framing methods.
Hardscape Professionals
Take your expertise in stone and pavers beyond grade and into elevated outdoor living projects.
Architects & Designers
Bring hardscape materials into elevated exterior environments with technical resources to support design and specification.
See What’s Possible When Hardscape Leaves the Ground.
Whether you’re replacing an aging deck, designing a new home, or looking for a new way to create premium outdoor spaces, Elevated Hardscape opens possibilities that traditional decking and ground-level hardscape alone cannot.
StoneDeks provides the structural system.
You decide what the space can become.
