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Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide
A Cambridge Pavers home addition or ADU in West Palm Beach typically runs $45,000 to $130,000 installed, depending on square footage, foundation work, and how the paver hardscape ties into the structure. That’s a real range we stand behind, and we put the number in writing before the first paver gets pulled. The most common way this project goes wrong isn’t the pavers themselves. It’s the subgrade under them, the drainage around them, and a contractor who didn’t plan for how Florida soil moves.
Most owners call us when they see a patio or walkway that’s settled an inch or two, pavers that are loose where they abut the addition, or a pool deck that’s started to heave. The addition itself might be fine. The paver work around it is telling you something about the ground underneath.
If you’ve got Cambridge Pavers on a patio, driveway, or pool deck that’s tied to a planned or existing addition, this page covers what you need to know about matching, pricing, and doing it once.
Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To
Cambridge Pavers makes several product lines that show up on West Palm Beach additions and ADUs, and the compatibility question comes down to series and thickness. The Ledgestone and Maytrx lines are common for pool decks and patios. The RoundTable and Sherwood lines show up on driveways and walkways. Thickness matters more than color: Cambridge produces pavers in 60mm and 80mm profiles for vehicular use, and thinner profiles for foot traffic only.
Here’s the gotcha that trips up a lot of additions in this area. If your existing patio is an 80mm paver rated for vehicle loads and your contractor tries to extend it with a 60mm paver because it’s cheaper, the new section will fail. In West Palm Beach’s sandy, shifting soil, that’s not a maybe. It’s a timeline. We match thickness and series before we match color. Color can be blended. Thickness cannot be faked.
Cambridge colors have batch variation. Even the same named color from a different production run will not match perfectly. That’s not a defect. It’s how concrete pavers are made. A good contractor knows to pull from the same lot when possible and to feather in a fade zone where old meets new so the eye doesn’t catch the seam.
Bradford Remodeling Co West Palm Beach is an independent contractor. We’re not affiliated with Cambridge Pavers, and we don’t claim to be. We do work with their product daily and keep current on their line sheets.
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Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Settled or sunken pavers near the foundation line. This usually means the base wasn’t compacted in lifts, or water is washing fines out from under the edge. West Palm Beach’s summer rains move a lot of water in a short window, and a base that isn’t stabilized will show it within two years.
- Pavers separating from the addition’s slab or stem wall. Concrete and pavers expand at different rates when the ground temperature shifts. If the edge restraint isn’t anchored properly, you get a widening gap that catches water and accelerates the problem.
- Water pooling against the ADU or addition wall. Cambridge installations need a minimum slope away from structures, typically two percent. When a paver deck pitches toward the building instead of away, you’re not just looking at paver failure. You’re looking at moisture against your framing, which is a much bigger bill.
- Loose or rocking pavers in high-traffic paths. This is a bedding layer issue. Either the sand layer was too thick (over one inch and it never truly locks), or the joints lost their polymeric sand and the pavers are grinding against each other. On a pool deck, the same symptom means water is undermining the bed.
- White chalky residue blooming across the surface. Efflorescence is normal in Florida humidity and doesn’t hurt the paver structurally, but heavy, recurring bloom after two or three years can indicate water trapped under the pavers instead of draining through them. That’s a base-drainage call, not a surface cleaning call.
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A Cambridge Pavers addition or ADU project in West Palm Beach lands between $45,000 and $130,000. The spread is wide because a 400-square-foot lanai extension on stable ground is a different job than a full ADU with kitchen rough-in, bath, and 1,200 square feet of paver pool deck wrapped around it. Smaller scoped hardscape-only work runs lower: a paver patio runs $3,500 to $11,000, and a paver driveway runs $7,000 to $18,000.
When we price this work, the line items are broken out so you can see them: demolition and haul-off, subgrade prep and compaction, base material and depth, paver material at market cost, edge restraint, polymeric joint sand, and labor. No aggregate number with “miscellaneous” hiding a five-thousand-dollar surprise. You’ll see the number we quote once, and it won’t move unless you change the scope.
Every Cambridge Pavers installation we complete is covered by our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the work fails inside that year, whether it’s settlement, joint failure, or an edge that lets go, we come back and correct it at no charge. That’s not a handshake. It’s a written guarantee you’ll have in your hand when the job closes.
DIY or Call Us?
If you’re looking at a single loose paver, you can pull it, check the sand bed, and reset it. That’s a weekend job and a fair one to try yourself. But if you’re planning an addition or ADU and pavers are failing around it, the problem is almost never the paver you can see. It’s what’s under the paver.
In West Palm Beach, that means sandy soil, a high water table in some zones, and drainage that has to be planned before any structure goes up. A homeowner who starts pulling pavers around a failing addition edge without addressing the base will have the same problem again next rainy season, just deeper and more expensive. If the failure involves pavers near a load-bearing wall, a pool shell, or a driveway you park on, call us at (728) 203-9809. Curtis Lane has seen enough West Palm Beach subgrades to know what’s coming before the shovel goes in.
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FAQs
Cambridge Pavers are engineered for a 30-plus-year life when installed on a properly compacted base with correct drainage. We see paver surfaces in West Palm Beach fail early all the time, but the failure is in the base, not the paver. Match the paver to the load, build the base to the soil, and the surface will outlast the mortgage. Call (728) 203-9809 if you’d like us to look at what’s under yours.
Yes, if the issue is localized. A settled section can be lifted, the base re-compacted, and the same pavers reinstalled, often same day. If the failure runs for two or more feet along a wall or pool edge, the bedding is likely compromised and a sectional reinstall makes more sense than chasing individual spots. Either way, the estimate is free.
A typical paver patio or walkway replacement in West Palm Beach runs two to three days. A full home addition or ADU with hardscape runs months, because it includes permitting, foundation work, framing, and inspections. We’ll give you a written schedule with the written price, and we’ll tell you before anything affects that schedule.
We keep common joint sand, edge restraints, and base materials stocked. Pavers themselves are ordered per project to match series, thickness, and the closest available color lot. We’ll pull a material list and sourcing plan as part of your estimate so you know exactly what’s being ordered and from where. Call (728) 203-9809 to get your written estimate started.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner, Bradford Remodeling Co – West Palm Beach at Bradford Remodeling Co West Palm Beach, serving West Palm Beach and nearby areas.
