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About Our Paving Work in Sydney

Every paving quote we write for Sydney starts on site, with photographs, levels and a walk of the full run. You cannot allow for access constraints that vary from a wide western verge to an inner-west rear lane from a satellite image.

Owners in Sydney tend to call us at the point where patching has stopped working. By then the underlying issue is usually pavers spreading at the edges because there was no restraint, and a repair only postpones it.

What makes paving in Sydney different is the combination of reactive shale clay in the west, sandstone and sand through the coast and north underneath and, on a great many blocks, the need to work around coastal salt exposure on one side of the city and cracking clay on the other.

Talk to us before you commit to anything. Call 0492 879 796 and we will tell you what your Sydney job actually involves, including the parts nobody enjoys paying for.

Materials and Specification

There is no premium in over-specifying something that was never going to fail. We put the money where Sydney conditions actually attack the job, which is generally at ground level and at the fixings.

Colour and finish choice around Sydney tends to follow the streetscape more than personal taste, particularly on blocks where you are working with ground conditions that change completely between one side of the basin and the other.

• A herringbone pattern interlocks under vehicle load far better than a stack bond does.
• Cutting into the field rather than at the edge keeps a paved area looking deliberate rather than trimmed to fit.
• A driveway base is deeper than a patio base because it carries wheel loads that concentrate at the tyre contact patch.
• Efflorescence on new paving is salt migrating out of the base and usually clears with weathering.
• Bedding sand is a levelling layer, not a structural one, and too much of it is a common cause of rutting.

Types of Paving for Sydney Properties

The Faults We See Most Often in Sydney

Ask three contractors for paving in Sydney and you may get three different answers. The difference usually comes down to whether anyone has looked at councils that each interpret the same state controls slightly differently before pricing the job.

• Water pooling in the middle of a paved area with no fall
• Pavers spreading at the edges because there was no restraint
• A surface that has become slippery with algae in a shaded aspect
• Settlement over a service trench that was never compacted properly

What the Ground Is Like in Sydney

Site conditions here run to everything from flat river plain to steep sandstone escarpment. Levels get set out and recorded before anything is ordered, because a change of grade halfway along a run is a design decision, not something to improvise around.

Tree cover and root zones matter around Sydney. Roots are worked around rather than cut through, both because the tree matters and because a cut root under a footing is a future problem.

Local housing stock is largely the full spread of Sydney housing, from Victorian terrace to new release estate, and that tells you a lot about what is already in the ground: original service runs, old footings and the occasional buried slab nobody remembered.

What Happens After You Call

Everything is measured on site and photographed, and the quote is written from that rather than from a phone conversation. That is why what arrives on the day is what was priced.

We photograph the site before we start and again at completion. On a Sydney job that record settles most questions about what was there and what changed.

• Segmental retaining and edge restraint
• Compacted road base and bedding sand
• Natural stone and sandstone paving
• Concrete and clay paver driveways
• Cutting and bonding patterns
• Drainage grates and falls