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Originally Posted by Pairadocs
Thank you SO MUCH for your detailed answer. Right on target, the "pavers" here are nothing like the "pavers" we had at a former home, which were more what most of us would call "bricks". Ours here are much different, they are very porous, thin like "slices" of "brick", exactly as you described. I you could share, would very much like to know exactly what you had done for your remedy ? I take it you had someone remove all the of thin pavers ? Clean up all the sand, level it, etc. etc. and pour a traditional concrete drive ? Again, thank you so much if you can give more details. Sounds as if your answer was the only one that actually proposed an alternative to the pavers (which we would like to do away with, but not sure of the alternatives, so hope to get help on here. I do know the house had a concrete drive when built, and then later had the pavers added to it. But, would like to eliminate the pavers. Are there people who will remove them for the material, or who will pay for the truck load(s) of used ones ?
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Most of your original driveway is still there, I'd bet. The think pavers were laid right over the existing concrete except at the curb.
As another poster described, in order to have the thin pavers meet flush with the curb, a bit of original concrete drive was removed. I can't remember the exact width that was removed, maybe a foot or so? I thought maybe the same process had to be done for the garage junction but that wasn't the case.
So the process was:
Pavers removed. That was done by Lawn Services LTD. (Juan Santiago proprietor). He also did some landscaping for us, and he poured concrete to replace the concrete that was removed, at the curb.
It took a month, as I recall, maybe 5 or 6 weeks, my memory is fuzzy, before the new concrete was ready for the textured paint treatment. We used DesignStar for this. The owner is Aldo Bersani. He has a FaceBook page, under DesignStar, if you want to see pictures of his finished work. We were very happy. He did some prep work on the new and old concrete and then did the textured work.
If you are interested, you should contact DesignStar and have Aldo come and look and give you an estimate on price and when he could do the work. We found that these driveway texture treatment companies were pretty busy.
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Good Luck