Paver Contractor in Paradise Valley, AZ

Acre lots, motor courts and mountain views in Paradise Valley

Original acre lots. Much of the town was settled on one- to five-acre lots after World War II, and plenty of those properties have been remodeled or rebuilt since. When a house gets redone, the hardscape usually goes with it. The old concrete drive and patio come out, and pavers or stone go in to match the new architecture.

Motor courts and long drives. On an acre, the driveway is rarely a short slab to a two-car garage. It's a long approach, sometimes a gate, and often a motor court in front of a multi-car garage. Those surfaces are much bigger than a typical driveway, so the layout, the borders and the drainage plan all carry more weight.

Hillside homes. The Town's Hillside Development Area is mostly the slopes of Camelback and Mummy Mountain, with about 1,000 parcels designated hillside. Patios and pool decks up there are built for the view, on ground that falls away from the house.

Gated enclaves. Communities like Clearwater Hills and Finisterre are gated, and some neighborhoods have their own architectural review on top of the Town's.

Hillside rules, washes and caliche

Paradise Valley's hillside regulations cover the Hillside Development Area, plus any ground with a natural slope of at least 10 percent. Hillside projects go through the Town's Hillside Building Committee, which reviews grading and drainage, and the steeper the lot, the less of it the Town lets you disturb. That decides where a patio, pool deck or driveway extension can go before we draw a single line.

Off the mountains, the lots are flatter but not simple. Natural washes cross a lot of properties, and the Town's grading rules protect them, so we design around a wash instead of filling it. Caliche runs under much of the Valley and water won't pass through it, so moisture that seeps into a paver base has nowhere to go.

That's why grade and drainage come first on every Paradise Valley plan. Water should leave the surface and the base, headed somewhere on purpose. Under a driveway or motor court, the base is 4 inches of ABC, compacted in lifts after it's wet down. Bedding sand is screeded over that, edge restraint goes in, and once the pavers are laid we sweep joint sand into them and run the compactor over the whole surface one last time. On hillside lots the grading plan goes through the Hillside Building Committee first, and gated communities can add their own architectural review.

Paver costs on Paradise Valley properties

John's price sheet puts typical installed totals at the ranges below. A lot of Paradise Valley jobs are bigger than the sizes these assume, which is why the real number waits until we've measured your property.

• Paver driveway: $5,000 to $10,000 for a typical two-car driveway of 550 to 900 square feet in standard concrete pavers. Tumbled pavers run about $5,500 to $10,800. Long drives and motor courts are priced by their measured area.
• Paver patio: $2,500 to $6,600 for 300 to 600 square feet in concrete pavers. Natural stone or travertine runs $4,500 to $10,800, and porcelain runs $5,700 to $13,200.
• Pool deck: $7,000 to $13,400 in concrete pavers for 600 to 1,000 square feet of deck plus coping. Natural stone or travertine runs $11,000 to $21,000, and porcelain runs $15,700 to $27,000.
• Walkway: $850 to $2,750 in concrete pavers for 100 to 250 square feet.

To get a rough figure before we visit, try the estimator or read through the pricing guide.

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