Paver Contractor in Tempe, AZ

Maple-Ash to The Lakes: Tempe's paver neighborhoods

Maple-Ash and the ASU area. Just west of the ASU campus, Maple-Ash includes the Park Tract, platted in 1924, with homes from the first half of the 1900s. Lots and side yards here can be tight, driveways can be narrow, and the typical work is front walks, driveway replacements and small backyard patios. Older homes mean older concrete.

Postwar Tempe. Tempe grew fast after World War II. A city historic preservation study counted about 4,500 Tempe properties built between 1945 and 1960, and the population went from about 25,000 in 1960 to more than 100,000 by 1980. A big share of central Tempe is ranch homes from those decades. The common job is tearing out a cracked concrete driveway or patio and replacing it with pavers on a real base.

South Tempe, The Lakes and Kiwanis Park. The Lakes was built in the 1970s around a set of man-made lakes, with homes, docks and backyards that run to the water. Around Kiwanis Park, near Baseline and Mill, and further south, the work is usually backyard patios and pool deck remodels on single-family homes.

Around Tempe Town Lake. Town Lake opened in 1999, and most of what's been built along it is commercial and high-rise. Our work near the lake is in the older single-family streets around it, not the towers.

Flood irrigation, caliche and tight lots in Tempe

Some older Tempe neighborhoods still get flood irrigation. The city delivers it to about 850 residential customers, starting Sunday nights, with no water in November and December, and asks owners to keep their berms up. Any paver work in one of those yards has to keep that water in the grass and out of the base. We set the berms and the paver edges together, and we keep patios and walks above the flood level.

Caliche shows up under Tempe yards just as it does across the Valley. It won't drain, so water that slips under pavers stays there. Grading is the first thing we settle, giving water a path off the surface before it can reach the base.

Older lots and side yards can be tight, which affects access more than anything else. A hard-to-reach backyard adds about $150 to $300 to a patio. A small lot doesn't mean a thinner driveway, though: it still gets 4 inches of ABC, watered and compacted in lifts. If another contractor proposes DG or quarter-minus for that base, be wary of the whole bid.

The Lakes has an HOA, and some older neighborhoods have their own rules, so we look into what your street requires before booking a start date.

What Tempe homeowners pay for pavers

Here's what the most common Tempe jobs come to, installed, based on John's price sheet. A site measure turns the range into your number.

• Paver driveway: $5,000 to $10,000 for a typical two-car driveway of about 550 to 900 square feet. Removing the old concrete adds about $1,400 to $2,700.
• Paver patio: $2,500 to $6,600 in concrete pavers for about 300 to 600 square feet. Large format runs $3,300 to $7,800.
• Pool deck: $7,000 to $13,400 in concrete pavers with coping. Removing old concrete decking adds about $1,500 to $3,000.
• Walkway: $850 to $2,750 in concrete pavers, with an $800 minimum job.

Want a rough figure first? Run your project through the estimator, or compare materials in the pricing guide.

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