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KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide
We stock and install KraftMaid-compatible driveway and paver components throughout West Palm Beach, with typical installed pricing running $7,000 to $18,000 for a full paver driveway replacement. Most homeowners call us after they notice a sunken paver near the garage apron or pooling water against the foundation after a hard rain. The culprit is usually a failed sand base or a cracked edge restraint, not the paver itself. We carry the pavers, the polymeric sand, the edge restraints, and the base material on our trucks for most KraftMaid-style paver layouts, so the repair usually starts the same week you call.
In West Palm Beach, the failure pattern is predictable. The wet season hits in June and runs through November, and that’s when we get the most calls about pavers shifting over a base that never fully compacted. The driveway still looks fine from the street, but the paver you drive over every morning has started to rock. That’s the sign you call us.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid is a cabinet brand, and here’s the honest truth: KraftMaid doesn’t manufacture driveway pavers. What homeowners in West Palm Beach usually mean when they search “KraftMaid driveway pavers” is a paver driveway or walkway installed as part of a larger KraftMaid kitchen or whole-home remodel, or they’re confusing the brand with a paver manufacturer. We handle both situations the same way. If your pavers were installed as part of a remodel that included KraftMaid cabinets, we match the existing paver color, size, and pattern so the repair blends with what’s already there. If you’re starting fresh, we help you pick the paver that works with the rest of the home, including any outdoor areas tied to rooms with KraftMaid cabinetry.
Most driveways in this region use concrete pavers in 4×8, 6×9, or 8×8 formats, with 60mm thickness for residential driveways. The gotcha is this: pavers from different manufacturing runs shift color slightly, even from the same supplier. We always order extra material when we start a job and we keep the unused pavers on the pallet, labeled, so future repairs match. If a previous contractor didn’t do that, we can still match what’s installed, but it takes an extra step because we have to measure the actual paver dimensions and haul a sample to the supply yard rather than trusting the paperwork.
For the base, the OEM versus aftermarket question doesn’t really apply to pavers the way it does to cabinet hinges. You want a crushed concrete or limestone base compacted in lifts, with bedding sand on top and polymeric sand in the joints. That’s the system. What matters is whether the base was installed deep enough for our soil. Six inches of compacted base is the minimum we use in West Palm Beach. Less than that, and you’ll be calling someone again in two or three years.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers Is Failing
- Rocking pavers. A paver that tips when you step on it means the bedding sand beneath it has washed away or the base underneath has settled unevenly. Every time you drive over it, the paver grinds against its neighbors, which chips the edges and makes the problem spread.
- Pooling water. Water that sits on the driveway for more than an hour after rain in West Palm Beach is a red flag. A properly pitched paver driveway moves water to the edges or the street. Standing water means the base has shifted, the edge restraints are failing, or the original pitch was never right.
- Spreading joints. Gaps that keep widening between pavers mean the edge restraint around the perimeter has broken loose. Once the outside border loses tension, the whole field starts to drift, and you’ll see paver joints open up like a zipper.
- Sand washout after rain. If you see little sand fans on the driveway surface or in the gutter after a downpour, the polymeric sand in the joints is breaking down. That sand is doing structural work; when it’s gone, the pavers rub against each other directly.
- Sinking near the garage apron. This is the spot we see fail first in West Palm Beach homes built on sandy fill. The apron takes the most load, and if the base was thin there, the pavers drop and create a lip you feel every time you pull in.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
A complete paver driveway replacement in West Palm Beach runs $7,000 to $18,000 depending on square footage, paver style, access, and how much of the old base has to be removed and hauled away. Small paver repairs, like resetting a section of sunken pavers or replacing a broken paver in a walkway, land in the $1,500 to $4,000 range when we’re already on site for a related project.
Our written price includes the pavers, base material, polymeric sand, edge restraints, labor, and haul-away of the old material. We put the price in writing before any work starts, and that number doesn’t change once the crew arrives. The estimate shows the paver brand and color, the base depth in inches, the square footage, and the start and end window. Every paver driveway we install carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the pavers shift, sink, or the sand washes out within a year of completion, we come back and make it right.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely inspect a paver driveway yourself. Walk the surface, feel for rocking pavers, check the edges for gaps, and watch where water pools after rain. Take pictures. That’s useful information to bring to the conversation. What you shouldn’t do is start pulling up pavers and re-compacting base without the right equipment. The base needs to be compacted with a plate compactor in lifts, the pitch has to be re-established with a laser level, and if you get the edge restraint wrong, you’ll be back here in a year.
This is also work where the labor is heavy. A single 60mm concrete paver weighs about 15 pounds. A two-car driveway has hundreds of them. That’s fine for a crew that does it every week. It’s a different day for a homeowner with a wheelbarrow and a weekend. If you’re weighing it, call (728) 203-3270 and we’ll walk the driveway with you. The estimate is free, and you’ll get a written price before you decide anything.
FAQs
A properly installed paver driveway with a six-inch compacted base lasts 25 to 30 years in West Palm Beach, though the polymeric sand in the joints typically needs a refresh every 5 to 7 years because our rainy-season downpours erode it faster than inland climates. Call (728) 203-3270 for a free evaluation of your existing driveway’s condition.
Yes, if the failure is localized, like a sunken section near the apron or a broken paver or two, we can re-set that area, re-compact the base, and re-sand the joints for a fraction of the full replacement cost. The deciding factor is whether the base under the rest of the driveway is stable; if it’s not, you’re just patching symptoms.
Most residential paver driveway replacements in West Palm Beach take 3 to 5 working days from demolition to final sanding, weather permitting. We give you firm start and end dates in the written estimate, and we call if anything changes.
We keep the most common West Palm Beach paver sizes and colors in stock at our local supplier and on our trucks, including 4×8 and 6×9 concrete pavers in the earth tones you see throughout Flamingo Park and nearby neighborhoods, but for custom colors or larger-format pavers we order per job with the extra material kept on pallets for future repairs. We also work with Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler products on the interior side, so if your driveway project is part of a larger remodel, we can coordinate the whole thing.
If you’re looking at a driveway that’s shifting, holding water, or just showing its age, call us. Graham Stein walks every West Palm Beach job site himself before the first drop cloth goes down, and you’ll have a written scope of work in your hands before the first tool is unpacked. Put it in writing, then do exactly that. Call (728) 203-3270 for your free estimate.
Written by Graham Stein, Owner, Elmstead Remodeling West Palm Beach at Elmstead Remodeling West Palm Beach, serving West Palm Beach and nearby areas.
