Paver Contractor in Glendale, AZ

Catlin Court, the postwar blocks and Arrowhead Ranch

Catlin Court and historic downtown. Catlin Court was platted in 1914 as Glendale's first organized home-building expansion, and its bungalows were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Many of those houses now hold shops and restaurants. Around homes this old, paver work tends to be front walks, small patios and entries, chosen to suit the house rather than fight it. Lots are small, so access and material staging take planning.

Postwar central Glendale. Glendale has ten neighborhood historic districts, and several of them, like Sands Estates, Glendale Gardens and Sage Acres, were built between the late 1940s and the 1960s. Those neighborhoods and the blocks around them are where you find the most tired concrete: driveways cracked across the middle, patios that have settled toward the house, and walks with a lifted edge. The work starts with tear-out, a corrected grade and a new base.

Arrowhead Ranch. Arrowhead Ranch was planned in the late 1980s and built out in the 1990s, roughly between 59th and 75th Avenues from Union Hills Drive to just north of Deer Valley Road. It has HOA-managed lakes and two golf courses, the Legends and Arrowhead Country Club. Many of these homes are now old enough that their original pool decks and driveways are due, and the owners want to upgrade to travertine, porcelain or a bordered paver driveway. The HOA reviews it all.

Flat farmland, caliche and lake lots

Glendale started as farmland fed by canals, and by 1930 it was one of the country's top produce shippers. That history shows in the ground. Most of the city is flat. Flat ground is easy to work on, but it gives water nowhere to go unless the slope is built into the job.

Below that flat ground there's often caliche, a cemented layer that turns up all over the Valley and holds water instead of passing it through. Any water that reaches a base sitting on caliche lingers there and softens it. So the grade and drainage plan comes before anything else on a Glendale job, and driveways go onto 4 inches of aggregate base course, or ABC, soaked and compacted in lifts. If someone proposes decomposed granite or quarter-minus as the base, call it what it is: a red flag.

On lake and golf lots in Arrowhead Ranch, the back edge of the yard matters. Runoff should follow the drainage the lot was designed with, which never means toward the house or into a neighbor's yard.

Who signs off depends on the neighborhood. Arrowhead Ranch work goes through the HOA. In Catlin Court and Glendale's other historic districts, exterior work that needs a building permit goes through the city's historic preservation certificate process. We work out which applies to your address before the job is booked.

How much a Glendale paver project costs

Each range below is a complete installed total from John's price sheet. Where your Glendale job lands gets settled when we measure.

• Paver driveway: most run $5,000 to $10,000 for a two-car driveway of about 550 to 900 square feet in standard concrete pavers. Removing an old concrete driveway, a common add on older Glendale homes, runs about $1,400 to $2,700.
• Paver patio: most concrete paver patios run $2,500 to $6,600 for about 300 to 600 square feet. Removing an old concrete patio adds about $750 to $1,800.
• Pool deck: a typical deck with coping runs $7,000 to $13,400 in concrete pavers and $11,000 to $21,000 in travertine or natural stone. Removing old concrete decking adds about $1,500 to $3,000.
• Walkway: most run $850 to $2,750 in concrete pavers. The minimum job is $800.

For a rough number before we visit, try the estimator or work through the pricing guide.

From historic downtown to the lakes: Glendale service pages

• Paver driveways in Glendale
• Paver patios in Glendale
• Paver pool decks in Glendale
• Paver walkways in Glendale

Glendale's neighbors Peoria and Phoenix are in our service area too, and so is Surprise.