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KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers: The Sacramento Owner’s Guide
KraftMaid driveway and paver replacement in Sacramento typically runs $7,000 – $18,000 installed, depending on square footage, paver grade, and whether we’re pulling up an old concrete slab or starting from compacted soil. We keep common paver sizes and edge restraints on the truck, so most driveway teardowns and rebuilds begin within a week of your written estimate. What usually brings Sacramento homeowners to this page is a sunken section near the garage apron, a cracked border course, or pavers that have shifted so far out of alignment they catch the tire every time you pull in. You notice it first as a thump, then as standing water after rain, then as a trip hazard the mail carrier starts avoiding.
One thing to clear up before we go further: Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento is an independent contractor, not affiliated with KraftMaid. KraftMaid built your cabinetry. We build the hardscape that carries your car, your kids’ bikes, and your garbage bins. If you were told KraftMaid has a driveway parts line, that was probably a crossed wire. We’re the people who actually do the work.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
Here’s the honest answer: KraftMaid does not manufacture driveways or pavers. The brand lives in the cabinet shop, not the hardscape yard. What Sacramento homeowners usually mean when they search this phrase is one of two things. Either they own a KraftMaid kitchen and mistakenly assume the whole house fell under the same brand umbrella, or a previous owner installed a paver driveway and the paperwork got shuffled with the kitchen remodel file. Either way, the fix is the same: you need a driveway contractor who understands pavers, not a cabinet parts desk.
Where brand matters on a driveway job is the paver manufacturer itself. We work with Belgard and Unilock pavers, which are the names Sacramento hardscape crews trust for color consistency and freeze-thaw survival. The compatibility question that actually matters is paver thickness: 60mm pavers handle pedestrian traffic, 80mm is the minimum for a residential driveway, and if you park a full-size truck or SUV every night, we spec interlocking pavers with a thicker base course underneath. We’ve pulled up driveways in East Sacramento that were built on 2 inches of sand and nothing else. Those fail inside five years. The ones we build get 6 to 8 inches of compacted aggregate base, and they stay flat for decades.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Driveway & Pavers Is Failing
- Sunken wheel tracks or a low spot near the garage apron. This almost always means the base layer under the pavers has washed out or was never compacted properly. Sacramento’s wet winters push water through the joints and eat away at the sand below. The pavers sink, the water pools, and the cycle accelerates.
- Wobbling or loose pavers when you step or drive on them. A single loose paver is usually a broken edge restraint. When the plastic or concrete border that holds the outside row fails, the whole field starts drifting outward and the interlock loosens.
- Weeds or grass pushing up through the joints. This means the sand in the joints has thinned out and organic material is taking its place. Left alone, roots push pavers apart and you get persistent gaps that widen each season.
- Standing water that lingers more than 24 hours after rain. Driveways should slope away from the house at about 1 to 2 percent. When sections settle, water stops moving and starts finding its way toward the foundation or into the paver base itself.
- Crumbling or cracked paver edges along the border. Sacramento sun does a number on cheaper pavers. The UV exposure dries out the color and the surface spalls, the border chips, and the damaged edge becomes the first place water gets in.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
Paver driveway replacement in Sacramento runs $7,000 – $18,000 installed. That range covers everything from a straightforward single-car driveway in Elk Grove to a wide two-car apron with curved border courses and a walkway tie-in near McKinley Park. Here’s what drives the number:
- Square footage is the single biggest factor. A 400-square-foot driveway and a 900-square-foot driveway are different jobs, different material volume, different crew days.
- Paver grade matters. Basic concrete pavers run $8 – $12 per square foot installed. Tumbled or textured pavers with richer color blends run $15 – $22. The paver itself is only part of it; the labor is the same either way.
- Existing base condition is where Sacramento jobs surprise people. If the old base was properly built, we can sometimes reuse it and save you the excavation cost. If it was sand over dirt, we’re hauling everything out and starting fresh.
- Drainage matters more than most owners expect. If the old driveway pitched water toward the house, the rebuild has to correct the slope, which sometimes means more excavation and additional drainage channel.
Every driveway quote we write includes removal and haul-away of the existing surface, base preparation, paver installation, joint sand, edge restraints, and cleanup. The price on the written estimate is the price on the invoice. No change orders unless you change the scope. And every paver driveway carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if something settles, shifts, or cracks inside the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge.
DIY or Call Us?
You can absolutely handle the diagnosis side of this job yourself. Walk the driveway after a rain and mark the low spots with chalk. Check the outside edges for broken or missing restraints. Pry up one sunken paver with a flathead screwdriver and see what’s underneath: if it’s sand less than 2 inches thick, that’s your answer. Those observations will make you a sharper customer, whether you hire us or someone else.
What you should not try to DIY is a full driveway rebuild. The base excavation is a machinery job. The compaction has to be done in lifts with a plate compactor or you’ll rebuild the same failure. And the slope toward the street has to be right or you’ll be pulling water toward your foundation. We’ve seen homeowner attempts that lasted one Sacramento winter before the whole field started moving. If you want the work done once, call (279) 300-1177 and we’ll walk the site and give you a written price before anything gets dug up.
FAQs
A properly built paver driveway in Sacramento should last 25 to 40 years. The pavers themselves rarely fail; what fails is the base underneath, which is why we spend more time on excavation and compaction than on laying stone. Call (279) 300-1177 if you want us to assess whether your existing base is worth saving.
Sometimes yes. If the sinking is localized to one area and the rest of the field is stable, we can lift the affected pavers, re-level the base, and reset them for a fraction of a full replacement cost. If the base failure is widespread, repair becomes a patch job and you’ll be repairing it again in three years. We’ll tell you which situation you have before we quote anything.
A typical single-car driveway in Sacramento takes three to five working days from demo to final compaction. Larger driveways with borders and drainage work run five to eight days. We give you a start date and an arrival window in writing before any work begins.
We source pavers directly from Belgard and Unilock through local Sacramento suppliers, and we handle all the ordering and delivery. You do not need to buy anything ahead of time. The sand, aggregate, edge restraints, and joint compound are all included in the written quote we hand you before work starts.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner, Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento at Penhallow Remodeling Sacramento, serving Sacramento and nearby areas.
