Landscaping Cost Calculators for Winnipeg
Free tools that estimate what a project actually costs here — built on 2026 Winnipeg pricing, our 1.8 metre frost line and the clay everything sits on. No email required, no lead form in the way. Pick the one that matches your project.
Start here for a whole project
Whole-Yard Landscaping Cost Calculator
Build a whole project piece by piece — patio, deck, planting, sod, drainage, lighting — and see a realistic total with every component broken out. Start here if you're planning a full front or back yard rather than one element.
Hardscaping
Patios, walkways, driveways, walls and fire features — the parts of the yard that live or die on base depth. See all hardscaping services.
- Paver PatioPavers, base gravel, excavation and edge restraint, priced separately so you can see how much of the job is underground.
- Walkway & PathConcrete, exposed aggregate, pavers or flagstone — and why narrow paths cost more per square foot than patios.
- DrivewayGravel through interlocking pavers, including the City approach permit most online calculators leave out.
- Retaining WallWall face area including buried courses, drainage stone, geogrid, and the four-foot engineering threshold.
- Fire PitWood or gas, with frost-protected base, firebrick liner, licensed gas line runs and seating walls.
- Outdoor KitchenBuilt-in BBQ island through full pavilion, including cold-rated countertops and licensed gas fitting.
- Water FeaturePondless waterfalls, bubbling boulders and ponds, with pump sizing, liner, basin and stone.
Structures
Decks and pergolas — where footing depth and snow load do the deciding. See all structures services.
Softscaping & Lawns
Everything green, plus the one option that never needs mowing. See all softscaping & lawns services.
- Sod InstallationRolls, topsoil, prep and delivery for a new lawn, sized to your measured area.
- Artificial TurfTurf grade, roll waste, drainage base and infill — including pet systems.
- Tree & Shrub PlantingCaliper trees, shrubs and perennials with the soil amendment our clay actually demands.
- Rock & Mulch BedsConverts square feet to cubic yards properly, and prices edging, fabric and delivery.
- Lawn Care & CleanupMowing, aeration, power raking and seasonal cleanups, per visit and per season.
Grading, Drainage & Systems
The invisible work everything else sits on. See all grading, drainage & systems services.
- Drainage & GradingRegrading, French drains, catch basins and downspout work, built for clay and the spring melt.
- IrrigationPriced by zone rather than lot size, including backflow prevention and annual blowout.
- Outdoor LightingFixture count, transformer sizing and wire runs, with cold-rated fixtures that survive January.
Why we built these
Most online cost calculators are built for a national average, which in practice means they're built for somewhere warmer than here. They assume four inches of base under a patio. They don't know our frost line runs 1.8 metres deep, that our clay swells and shrinks with the seasons, or that the City charges $151 plus a $43 admin fee for a driveway approach permit.
These do. Every rate started from published Winnipeg 2026 pricing and got checked against what jobs actually cost here. More usefully, each one splits the estimate into what you can see and what you can't — surface, base and excavation, then everything else. On most hardscaping projects a third or more of your money goes underground, and that split is the single most useful thing to understand before you compare two quotes.
How to use them well
Every calculator gives you a planning range, not a quote. That's deliberate. A single number to the dollar would be false precision — real pricing moves with soil condition, buried services, machine access and how much correction your grade needs before work starts.
Use them to size up a project, sanity-check a quote you've already got, and work out which parts to cut if the total comes back higher than you hoped. Then get a real number from someone who has walked your yard.
Doing more than one project?
Start with the whole-yard calculator above rather than adding up individual tools. Projects done together cost meaningfully less than the same projects done separately — one mobilization, one machine rental, one delivery round instead of three. And sequencing matters: grading and drainage first, then hardscape and structures, then buried services like irrigation and lighting cable, then planting, then sod last. Work done out of order usually means undoing something.
Ready for a real number?
A calculator gives you a range. We'll walk your yard, look at the grade and the access, and give you a firm price — with base depth stated in writing.