Funny thing, my concrete drives always seem to work very well in all weather, year after year, without any maintenance except for an occasional sweeping of grass clippings. Why seek out additional maintenance and headaches? Must be part of retirement.
In reality, pavers should be laid on top of a thick bed of sand or "truepack" material. They can then settle, flex, isolate themselves from adjoining bricks and drain as a paver roadway is designed to do. The Villages retrofit idea of using thin veneer bricks on top of a hard concrete slab is nothing but asking for trouble. Too thin for the weight and stress placed on them, thin underlayment of sand washed away because water can't drain down, mold because of poor water drainage, etc etc. If you want to see how a paver driveway should look and function, drive through our neighbors at Harbor Hills where many of the homes have paver drives that were orginally built as paver drives with the proper sized and hardened pavers laid in a proper bedding.
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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