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KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers: The West Covina Owner’s Guide
We install and repair paver driveways across West Covina, including work tied to KraftMaid-style exterior upgrades where the driveway meets the home. A paver driveway installation in West Covina typically runs $7,000 to $18,000 depending on square footage, paver choice, and how much of the old surface has to come out first. Most owners discover a problem after the first heavy rain: the pavers have shifted, sunk, or separated where the driveway meets the garage apron, and suddenly the car scrapes or a trip hazard appears at the curb.
This page covers what we see most often on driveways in neighborhoods like the South Hills area and the older homes near Cameron Park. If your pavers are failing, you’ll want to know why, what a fix costs, and who can do it without nickel-and-diming you on change orders. We’ll walk through all three.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid is a cabinetry brand, so there is no KraftMaid-branded paver or driveway product line. But we get calls from West Covina homeowners who renovated a kitchen with KraftMaid cabinets, loved the work, and then asked us to handle their driveway because we were already in the home and they trust the crew. That’s why this page exists. If you have KraftMaid cabinets and a driveway that’s failing, we handle both. We also stock parts and materials compatible with Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler products for interior work.
For pavers specifically, the “model” question is about the paver itself: Belgard, Unilock, and Techo-Bloc are the three brands we install most in West Covina. Each has different thickness specs, color blends, and interlocking patterns. If you’re matching an existing driveway, take a photo of the paver face and measure its thickness. A 60mm paver is standard for driveways. A 40mm paver is for patios and foot traffic only. If someone installed 40mm pavers as a driveway to save money, that’s exactly why it’s now heaving and cracking under vehicle weight.
Mason Remodeling Co West Covina is an independent service provider. We are not affiliated with KraftMaid. We simply respect their cabinetry and treat the rest of your home with the same care.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers Is Failing
Here are the five calls we answer most often in West Covina, and what each one actually means once we get eyes on it:
- Sunken pavers near the gutter or garage apron. The base layer underneath has washed out. West Covina’s clay-heavy soil expands when wet and shrinks when dry, and over a few seasons that movement creates voids under the pavers.
- Wide, uneven gaps between pavers. This usually means the edge restraints failed or were never installed. Without a solid edge, the whole field drifts outward under daily traffic.
- Standing water that sits for more than an hour after rain. The original slope either wasn’t pitched right or has settled. Water pooling against the foundation is a slow, expensive problem for the house itself.
- Crumbling or cracked paver surfaces. Vehicle weight plus poor base compaction causes pavers to snap. We see this a lot on driveways with RVs or heavy work trucks parked regularly.
- Weeds or grass growing through every joint. That means the joint sand washed out and was never replaced. It’s a small maintenance issue that turns into a structural one when roots push pavers apart.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
A full paver driveway installation in West Covina runs $7,000 to $18,000. A partial repair, where we pull up a failed section and rebuild the base, typically lands at the lower end of that range depending on square footage. Driveway replacement, where the old concrete or asphalt comes out entirely and we start fresh, runs $5,000 to $14,000. Concrete driveways are a cheaper alternative at $4,500 to $12,000, and driveway sealing to extend life runs $250 to $700.
What moves the number: the size of the driveway, whether we’re removing old concrete, the paver brand you choose, and how much base material has to be rebuilt. You’ll get a written price before any work starts. That price includes demolition, base prep, paver installation, edge restraints, joint sand, and cleanup. If we find something unexpected underground, we tell you before spending a dollar more. No change orders slipped in at the end.
Our work carries a 365-day guarantee. If something fails within a year of completion, we come back and make it right at no cost. That’s the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s in writing, not just something we say on the phone.
DIY or Call Us?
There are things you can safely check yourself. Look at the edges of your driveway. If the plastic or metal restraint is popping up, that’s a warning sign. Look at where the driveway meets the garage slab. If you see a drop of more than half an inch, water is getting where it shouldn’t. You can also pour water on the driveway and watch whether it flows toward the street or pools against the house.
What you should not do is start pulling up pavers and rebuilding the base yourself. The base layer under a driveway is 4 to 6 inches of compacted aggregate, and if it’s not compacted in lifts with the right equipment, your repair will sink within a year. We have also seen homeowners hit irrigation lines and electrical conduit they didn’t know were under the driveway. Digging without a plan in West Covina is a gamble you don’t need to take.
If the damage is beyond surface level, call (707) 760-7579. We’ll come out, look at what’s really going on, and give you a written price. You should know what you’re getting before we ever pick up a tool.
FAQs
A properly installed paver driveway lasts 25 to 30 years in our climate, assuming the base was built correctly and the joint sand is topped up every two to three years. Most failures we see before the 10-year mark are base failures or edge failures, not the pavers themselves. Call (707) 760-7579 if you suspect a base problem before it spreads.
Yes. If the rest of the driveway is sound, we can cut out the failed section, rebuild the base, and reset the pavers. You’ll get a line-item written quote for just that repair. We won’t push a full replacement if it isn’t needed.
Most driveways in West Covina take 3 to 7 working days, depending on the size and whether old concrete has to be removed and hauled off. We’ll give you a schedule in writing before we start, and we’ll tell you up front if we expect any delay from weather or materials.
We order pavers directly from Belgard, Unilock, and Techo-Bloc through our supplier accounts. That means you get wholesale pricing passed through at the written quote and you don’t have to coordinate delivery or figure out how many extra pavers to order for cuts and waste. We handle all of it. Call (707) 760-7579 and we’ll walk you through the options.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co West Covina at Mason Remodeling Co West Covina, serving West Covina and nearby areas.
