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PGT Driveway & Pavers: The Woodland Hills Owner’s Guide
If you have a PGT paver driveway or walkway in Woodland Hills and part of it has failed, we stock compatible replacement pavers and install them for $3,500 to $18,000 depending on square footage, base condition, and access. Most paver repairs in Woodland Hills can be scheduled within days, not weeks, because our crews carry common PGT-compatible sizes on the truck. What you’re usually seeing first is a sunken section, a cracked paver that’s buckled upward, or a growing gap where the sand has washed out and the pavers have started drifting apart.
PGT is a product line homeowners in Woodland Hills know well for pool decks, patios, and driveways. When a section fails, the question isn’t whether it can be fixed. The question is what caused it, because pavers don’t fail on their own. They fail when the base underneath them moves, when water finds a path it shouldn’t, or when tree roots from those mature oaks around Woodland Hills push through where the compaction was never done right in the first place.
Which PGT Models This Applies To
PGT pavers come in a handful of series lines that matter when you’re matching a repair. The most common in Woodland Hills driveways are the Holland stone, the tumbled paver, and the larger-format slab styles. Each has its own dimensional spec. A Holland stone is typically 60mm thick for driveways, while a patio paver might be 40mm. That 20mm difference is the first compatibility gotcha: if someone installed patio-grade pavers on a driveway, that’s why they’re cracking under vehicle weight. It happens more often than you’d think.
To identify your paver, look for the manufacturer’s stamp on the underside of a loose paver or measure the one you have. Width and length matter less than thickness and whether it’s a through-body color or a face-mix. Through-body means the color runs all the way through, so chips don’t show as starkly. Face-mix means there’s a colored top layer and chips expose a gray concrete underneath. For PGT specifically, we can match OEM pavers through our supplier network, and in many cases a quality aftermarket equivalent from Techo-Bloc or Belgard will sit alongside the original without drawing the eye. We carry both options and will show you samples before we order anything.
One more thing worth knowing: PGT pavers in California are rated for the freeze-thaw cycles we don’t actually get in Woodland Hills, which means the paver itself almost never fails from weather. What fails is the base underneath, or the edge restraint, or the joint sand. That’s useful to know because it tells you where the repair money should go.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your PGT Driveway & Pavers Are Failing
- A paver has cracked in a straight line across the surface. That’s not random. It usually means the paver is spanning a void underneath where the base has settled. The crack is the paver doing the job the base should have done.
- A low spot forms and water ponds after rain. Woodland Hills doesn’t get heavy rain often, but when it does, a low spot tells you the subgrade has compressed unevenly. Water sitting on pavers accelerates joint sand loss, and the problem compounds.
- Gaps between pavers widen, especially near the driveway edge. Edge restraint failure. Once the perimeter lets go, the whole field starts drifting outward under vehicle load. You’ll see it first at the corner closest to the street.
- Weeds or ant colonies appear between specific pavers, not everywhere. Ants nest in joint sand that’s gone loose. They’re a symptom, not a cause. If ants have moved in, the sand is compromised and water is getting through to the base.
- The driveway feels spongy or pavers wobble when you step on them. That’s a base that has lost compaction. In Woodland Hills, we see this most often where the original install was done over dry, uncompacted fill, especially on hillside lots where the grade was cut to build.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
In Woodland Hills, a full PGT paver driveway replacement runs $7,000 to $18,000 installed, with the range driven mostly by square footage and whether we’re digging out and rebuilding the base or salvaging what’s underneath. A partial repair, where we pull a failed section, recompact the base, and relay matching pavers, typically lands between $3,500 and $11,000 depending on how far the failure has spread.
What’s included in our number is straightforward: removal and disposal of the failed section, base excavation and recompaction to spec, new bedding sand, the replacement pavers themselves, joint sand, and edge restraint if it’s compromised. You get a written price before any work starts, with the parts and labor broken out. That price doesn’t change once the job is underway unless we uncover something structural that genuinely wasn’t visible before we opened it up, and if that happens, we stop and show you before we spend another dollar of your money.
Every paver job we do in Woodland Hills is covered by our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If a section settles, shifts, or fails within a year of completion, we come back and make it right at no cost. Written terms, stated plainly, 365 days from the completion date.
DIY or Call Us?
There’s an honest split here. If you’ve lost joint sand and want to sweep in polymeric sand to buy yourself a season, that’s a reasonable homeowner task and we’ll tell you exactly what product to buy. If you have one cracked paver in an otherwise solid field, and you’re comfortable prying it out with a flat bar, you can do that too. Paver work is heavy and tedious, but it’s not dangerous the way a high-tension spring or a live electrical panel is.
What goes wrong with DIY is the base. If you reset pavers without addressing the compaction underneath, you’ll be looking at the same failure again next year. The most common Woodland Hills DIY mistake we see is scraping away the old sand, leveling the top surface, and calling it fixed. The pavers sit there fine until the first rain, and then the whole repair sinks into the void that was there all along.
If what you’re seeing is a spreading failure, a sunken section, or pavers that have moved at the edge, call us. We’ll come look at it, tell you what’s actually happening underneath, and give you a written number. You can reach us at (831) 290-6866.
FAQs
A properly installed PGT paver driveway in Woodland Hills should last 25 to 30 years on the paver itself, with the base underneath typically needing attention at the 15 to 20 year mark if it wasn’t compacted properly in the first place. The pavers outlast the base almost every time. Call (831) 290-6866 if you’re seeing signs the base is going, and we’ll tell you what a repair looks like before you spend anything.
A cracked paver is a replace-the-paver situation, not a repair situation. Concrete pavers can’t be glued back together in any way that holds under vehicle load. The good news is that a single paver swap is inexpensive, and we can match the existing PGT color and size so the repair disappears into the field. Call (831) 290-6866 if you’ve got one cracked paver or a dozen, and we’ll give you a straight number.
A typical paver driveway repair in Woodland Hills runs two to four days from demolition to final compaction, depending on square footage and whether we’re rebuilding the base or working with what’s there. Larger full replacements can run a week. You’ll have that timeline in writing before we start, and it won’t stretch because we didn’t schedule the crew properly.
We carry the most common PGT paver sizes and colors on our trucks for standard repairs, and we order the rest through our supplier network, which includes Techo-Bloc and Belgard for aftermarket equivalents when an exact PGT match isn’t available. We also stock parts and materials for KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone projects, so if you’ve got multiple things on the list, one call covers more ground. Call (831) 290-6866 and tell us what you’re seeing, and we’ll check the truck before we come out.
Mason Remodeling Co Woodland Hills is an independent service provider and is not affiliated with PGT. Tell me what you need done. I’ll tell you what it takes and what it costs. Then we get to work.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co – Woodland Hills, CA at Mason Remodeling Co Woodland Hills, serving Woodland Hills and nearby areas.
