Paving Yanchep
Yanchep estates are only a few years old, and their paving goes onto ground that was levelled for the build rather than ground that was already there. Sand over limestone, a builder's pad under most of it, and backyards that are usually still bare when we get to them.
- The builder's pad opened up and compacted
- Falls off the door threshold, not the pad
- Cheaper now, while the yard is still bare
Get a price for Yanchep
A photo of the area and a rough size is enough to price it.
The paving we do in Yanchep
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.
Sand, and a builder's pad
Northern corridor
Deep coastal sand, and a lot of ground that was filled and levelled before the house went on it.
Yanchep is sand over limestone, and the limestone can be a metre down or five. What matters more here is that the block was levelled for the build, so the yard is made ground rather than what was there.
Sand is actually a decent thing to pave over once it is compacted, because it drains. The trouble is uncompacted fill sitting on top of it, and a builder's level pad is not the same thing as a compacted base.
The other Yanchep specific is timing. A lot of these yards are still bare, and paving a bare yard costs less than paving one with lawn, reticulation and a fence already in it, because nothing has to be protected or taken back out.
Three things that change a job in Yanchep
01
Fences not up yet
On a new estate block we can often drive material straight to the back. That saves a barrow run of thirty metres and it shows up in the quote.
02
Builder handover levels
The pad the builder left is a construction level, not a finished level. Falls away from the house get set on the day, off the door threshold, not off the pad.
03
Reticulation first
If retic is going in, it goes in before the paving. Cutting a trench through a finished mortar bed to chase a line is not a repair, it is a patch, and it will always be visible.
Frequently asked questions about our paving services
Where Yanchep sits
Yanchep 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 Yanchep 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.