Driveway pavers in Clovis CA - a driveway that holds its shape under your cars

Most people call us when the old concrete drive has cracked or sunk at the street edge, or when a gravel or dirt drive has turned into dust in summer and mud in winter. We're based in Clovis and work in the cities around it, from Madera down to Kingsburg and Reedley and plenty of places in between. The price mostly comes down to the size of your driveway in square feet, whether the old one has to be broken out and hauled off, how deep the base goes, the paver and pattern you pick, and whether heavy vehicles park on it. The schedule turns on getting the utility lines marked before we dig and how much has to come out first, and I'll measure all of it at the estimate so you get a figure for your own driveway.

Most of a paver driveway is the base under it, so that's where we spend our time. We get the utility lines marked first, because we're digging well below the surface and nobody wants to find a pipe or a wire with a shovel. Then we dig out the old driveway or soil, compact the ground and spread the base rock in layers, packing each one, since a base packed all at once tends to settle later and take the pavers with it. We set edge restraints along the sides so the pavers can't creep outward, level a thin bed of sand, lay the pavers in your pattern and sweep sand into the joints so they lock together. Before any of that, I'll talk through with you whether permeable pavers make sense for your lot or a standard install suits it better, and I'd rather take the slower way on the base than leave you with a driveway that dips early.

A driveway usually meets other masonry. If yours runs along a slope or the yard drops off beside it, retaining wall construction gives that edge solid ground to lean on. And if the brick steps, pillars or planters by the drive are crumbling at the joints, masonry restoration brings them back so they don't look worn next to the new pavers, and that careful mortar work is what we're best known for.

California counts building or replacing a driveway as home improvement work, so the contractor has to be licensed by the Contractors State License Board and the contract you sign has to carry notices and disclosures meant to protect you. Look for them before you sign for driveway pavers in Clovis. Any change to the job has to be written down, legible and easy to understand, and it has to tell you about your right to cancel. You can also ask a contractor to name its subcontractors, and it has to give you each one's name, contact information, license number and classification.

Around Clovis we mostly replace older poured driveways that have cracked or settled, and we see the same thing on jobs in Sanger and Old Fig Garden. Most of those drives meet a garage slab, a walkway and some brick or block, so we plan where the pavers end at each one before we dig.