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Where to buy replacement pavers
I have the thin pavers over a concrete driveway. Quite a few of them are broken.
When I Google "pavers" or any "buy pavers" or "replace pavers" I get lots of hits for services to have pavers installed, but no luck on a place to go buy them. Lowes has some on their website, but from what I can tell, none in the store, so I won't be able to walk in with one for a color match. Any leads? |
Lowe's on 466A has pavers in their garden section toward the rear and toward the right side walking back. If you can't find them just ask someone If you know who put the pavers in that would be your best bet for matching them.
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The paver manufacturer is in Brooksville, Fl. Flagstone pavers is their name. Phone - 352-799-7933. You’ll probably have to drive to the plant to confirm size and color.
Take several pavers with you. This is where most of the contractors get the pavers. |
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Your other option is to take out GOOD pavers and form a pattern. Use these to replace broken pavers, and put new pavers to fill in the pattern, no need to match! Design your pattern so it can be expanded as you will have more breakage in the future.
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What's the best way to secure the pavers to a cement driveway?
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IMHO, I would check with a current supplier for this info, but from what I have seen ONLY the border pavers are glued, the interior paver just lay on the concrete and are held in place with polymorphic(?) sand. I believe this is the reason that so many of the thin pavers crack.
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Pavers sit best on a base of well 'whacked' mixed ballast (in UK we call it Type1) then a final layer, about 2 inches, of levelled and well 'whacked' sharp sand. You then have a levelling topping of sharp sand on which to lay pavers. Then 'whack the pavers down after filling joints with kiln dried sand. Drive a tank over that, and no breakages! Unless you have a substancial amount of sand between concrete and pavers, breakages can be pretty much be expected. Hard against hard without a decent cushion, is not the best scenario. |
I can't speak for Joel, but speaking for myself, I'm not looking for the best long term result. I'm not married to the idea that I will always want this paver driveway.
I may very well decide to have the pavers removed and have a decorative surface treatment done over the existing, but now thinly covered, concrete. I understand that thin pavers over concrete is not the best way to go, and were I starting from scratch, I wouldn't do it. However, this is the current hand I have. What I want to explore is the possibility of making it a little nicer than it is, myself, and trying it for. a few years to see what the yearly effort will be to keep it maintained to a standard I can accept. I can't speak for Joel, but I do have the same question. When the driveway was originally done this way, the pavers along the border were bonded, and the pavers in between were set on a thin layer of sand. My guess is that very little, if any, ongoing maintenance has been done, so now I'm looking at quite a few of those border pavers having come loose, and quite a few in between have fractured. I don't want to dig up concrete and put in proper pavers, because I may want that concrete intact later for a different treatment. I understand that I'm looking for a band-aid, and that as long as I stay with the thin pavers, I will always be dealing with cracking and debonding. I want to be able to deal with those issues in the best possible way, as opposed to making a big investment now in a more stable, longterm solution, because I'm not sure which way I want to go. Also, things are pretty backed up in this line of service right now, and it will be months and months before I could get the job done correctly. |
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Nevertheless, as I walk around TV, I do see thin pavers on driveways, that look pretty good. I think my best approach will be to talk with owners and see how they've maintained theirs. |
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