Driveway pavers in College Station TX - a driveway built on a solid base

Most people call us when the old concrete has cracked, dropped at a corner or just looks worn out, and they want to know if pavers are worth it. J&M College Station Concrete & Masonry is based in College Station, and we lay paver driveways here and across the cities around it, Bryan and Navasota among them. The price mostly moves with the size of the driveway, how deep the base goes, whether the old driveway has to come out and whether the work reaches the curb. The schedule turns on what the city asks for before we start and on the weather, and we find out the city side for you. If you'd like a matching path to the front door, that's our walkway construction work. I'll come out and give you a written estimate that spells out the work and the materials, so you see your own number before anything starts.

Our crew digs out the old surface and the soil under it, compacts what's left, then spreads the base and packs it down hard, because that base is what keeps a paver driveway flat. Next we set the edging that stops the pavers from creeping outward, drag a bed of sand smooth and level, and lay the pavers on it in the pattern you picked. I'll show you exactly what goes under your pavers, layer by layer, whether there's a fabric layer under the base, and whether the price covers pulling out the old driveway, so you can lay our bid next to anyone else's and compare it line by line.

A driveway rarely sits by itself. If your yard slopes down toward the drive, a short wall from our retaining wall construction work holds the soil back so it doesn't wash across the new pavers. And if the brick steps, border or front of the house beside the driveway has worn joints or loose brick, our masonry restoration work brings it back so a fresh driveway doesn't make the old brick look tired.

The City of College Station issues a permit for building or changing a drive approach or curb cut, the part of the driveway that crosses from your property line out to the street or alley, and for other driveway work that adds more than 120 square feet of material. The city's residential driveway permit form also says the approach has to be 12 to 25 feet wide at the property line, no more than half the front yard can be parking surface, the house needs one parking spot per bedroom up to four, and the owner is responsible for keeping up what's built. The ordinance behind that form may have changed, so check the current rules on the city's driveway and curb cut page. Before we start, we find out what your job needs. When a building permit is ours to pull, we pull it and set up the inspections, and if you'd rather pull it yourself, I'll tell you what the city will want to see.

On jobs around here we see a lot of older concrete drives that have cracked and settled, and narrow drives on houses where the family now has more cars than spots, which is right where those width and front-yard limits start to matter. We get the same calls on jobs in Bryan and Navasota, and we measure, check the local rules and lay the pavers the same way there.