Swapping units is cheap labour and potentially expensive sourcing. A small swap starts around three hundred dollars including the visit, with additional units at twenty five to sixty each. What moves the number is not the work, it is whether your paver line still exists and how well the match holds up outdoors.
Lifting a damaged unit, screeding the bedding and setting a new one takes minutes. What can turn a two hundred dollar job into a conversation is that paver lines get retired every eight to fifteen years, colours get reformulated, and a surface laid a decade ago frequently cannot be bought.
At that point the options each carry a different price: relocating a matching unit from a hidden part of your own property costs about the same as a straight swap, running the replacements as a deliberate band or border costs more because more stone moves, and rebuilding a defined section in a current product costs the most.
We price whichever ones apply rather than quoting the cheapest and discovering the problem later. See how discontinued pavers are handled, what cracked pavers need underneath, and what full restoration comes to.
Replacement Cost
How It Runs
Four things that decide a replacement price
How many units
The count, which is usually a few more than the obviously broken ones once the surrounding stones are checked for movement.
Whether the line exists
Identifying the product and finding out if it is still made, which decides whether this is a swap or a sourcing exercise.
What is underneath
A unit cracked because of a void below it, so the bedding correction is part of the job rather than an optional extra.
Which option you choose
Straight swap, relocation from a hidden area, a deliberate band or a rebuilt section, each priced so the choice is yours.
Salt Spalling
Salt damage changes it from a swap to a plan
A cracked unit is a one-off. A spalling unit, flaking in layers from de-icing salt, is the first of many, because the salt travels across the surface on boots and tires.
Replacing three when a dozen are on their way is money spent twice, so we count how many are affected before quoting rather than after. See what cracked pavers look like by comparison, how discontinued pavers change the approach, and what full restoration comes to instead.
Small swaps start around $300 including the visit, with additional units at $25 to $60 each depending on the product and how the site is accessed.
Sourcing. If your paver line is retired, matching becomes the job, and relocation, a deliberate band or a rebuilt section each carry a different price.
Yes. A unit usually cracked because of a void underneath it, so correcting the bedding is part of the swap rather than an extra line afterwards.
That is salt spalling and it spreads. We count how many units are affected before quoting, because replacing three when a dozen are coming is money spent twice.
Often closely, and we show you a sample on your surface wet and dry before ordering. Where the line is gone we bring you the three realistic options instead.
There is, because travel and setup cost the same for two pavers as for twenty. Below roughly a square metre we will usually suggest holding it until you have other work, and say so rather than book a call-out that is mostly fee.
