Paving Scarborough
Scarborough has the tightest blocks in the northern corridor, so paving here starts with getting material to the back. The suburb has been rebuilding itself for a decade, and a lot of the work is a new surface around a new home on a block with no room to spare.
- Material through the house on boards
- Narrow surrounds are almost all cut work
- Beds laid and closed the same day
Get a price for Scarborough
A photo of the area and a rough size is enough to price it.
The paving we do in Scarborough
Same crew and the same method behind all of it. What changes between these is the base under them, the load they take and how much of the work is cutting.
Pool paving
The surround, laid wet on a full mortar bed so it stays flat and stays put when the ground moves.
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Pool coping and capping
The edge that everyone touches and everyone looks at. Cut to the curve, not forced around it.
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Driveway paving
Large-format porcelain and natural stone, bedded to take a car rather than to look right on day one.
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Alfresco and outdoor living
Inside floor level carried out through the door so the room does not stop at the threshold.
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Replacing failed dry lay
Lifting paving that has sunk, rocked or spread, and relaying it properly. About half of what we do.
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Wet laid, on a full bed
Every paver goes down on a full bed of wet mortar across its whole underside, over a base compacted to carry what will sit on it. No voids under the middle, nothing to rock, nothing for water to get into and sit in.
It is slower than screeding sand and laying onto it, and it costs more on the day. It is also the only version of this that is still flat in ten years, which is why it is the only version we do.
Every paver, every job, on a full bed of mortar.
Tight blocks, blowing sand
Northern corridor
Deep coastal sand, and a lot of ground that was filled and levelled before the house went on it.
Scarborough is deep coastal sand and wind. Between the two, any surface left unpaved fills with drift, and any base left open overnight is a different shape in the morning.
The rebuild wave is what shapes the work. Old cottages have come down and three storey homes have gone up, and the paving is usually a narrow strip between a new wall and a boundary fence.
Narrow is what makes it difficult. On a surround a metre wide every paver is a cut paver, and the setout has to be worked from the finished edge back, not from the wall forwards, or the last row lands as a sliver.
Three things that change a job in Scarborough
01
Access through the house
On a lot of these blocks there is no side access at all. Material goes through the house on boards or over the fence, and the quote reflects the real method rather than an imaginary one.
02
Every paver is a cut
Narrow surrounds are almost entirely cut work. It is slower, the setout matters more, and a job priced as if it were an open courtyard will be a bad job.
03
Wind and drift
Beds get laid and closed the same day where we can. An open mortar bed collecting blown sand for a night is not a bed you want a paver going onto.
Frequently asked questions about our paving services
Where Scarborough sits
Scarborough and everything around it. If your street is on the edge of the boundary, it makes no difference to us: ask anyway.
We also pave nearby
Every area we cover
Tell us the street in Scarborough and send a photo
The suburb tells us the ground and the likely access. The photo tells us the job. Together they are usually enough to talk about a real number rather than a range.