How your home benefits from having a paved deck

Home Deck

Wooden decks have been a popular home feature for years. Wood is a natural material that helps blend the house with the surrounding landscape, but homeowners don’t love the maintenance that wood requires or the problems that can occur when it becomes damaged by insects, animals, sun, and rain. Some homeowners have turned to artificial materials like PVC, but some are choosing a different look entirely that retains a more natural and aesthetic look. Interlocking concrete pavers offer a durable, attractive surface that can help your home’s exterior blend effortlessly with your landscaping design.

Low-Maintenance

Pavers offer a low-maintenance alternative to wood without the unnatural quality of PVC. Pavers are laid in the ground over a bed of crushed stone and sand that stops weed growth and makes repairs easy and affordable. If your home design requires a raised deck, pavers can also be laid as the flooring of a deck or installed below a raised deck to create a ground-level patio.

Cohesive Design

Because pavers are such a versatile material, it’s easy to create a cohesive landscape with them. Incorporate the same pavers you’re using on your deck or patio into walkways, paths, driveways, pool areas, and porches. You can even build above-ground structures with pavers, to create custom elements like seating benches or a barbecue island.

Long-Lasting

Unlike concrete, interlocking pavers incorporate sand-filled crevices that create a flexible surface. That flexibility means the surface won’t crack when tree roots grow underneath, or from constant freezing and thawing in extreme climates. If your patio or deck develops any bulges over time, you can simply remove the pavers, level the sand below, and replace the same pavers for a cost-free repair. There are roads in Europe covered with interlocking pavers that have been going strong for more than 50 years; surely they can stand up to your family’s traffic patterns.

Easy to Repair

Even if you manage to chip a paver, or if an area becomes stained, it’s easy to either flip the damaged units over or replace them with fresh pavers. Most homeowners can manage these repairs easily, so there’s no need to pay a professional to repair your patio, deck, or walkway. Just make sure to order a few extra pavers so you’ll be ready if a repair is needed.

Design Options

Pavers come in a wide variety of textures and colors and can be installed in several different patterns. Even a do-it-yourself homeowner can manage simple designs like a herringbone or basket weave pattern. It’s easy to create patios, walkways, and other hardscape garden elements with interlocking pavers. The versatility of pavers also means that it’s easy to pull together your landscaping design by echoing the same materials and patterns in your pool area, deck, patio, and garden seating areas.

Choosing a paved deck or patio over wood or concrete will give you a low-maintenance seating area with a natural look that blends beautifully with your shrubs, grasses, and flowers. Imagine having a deck or patio that only needs to be swept to retain its strength and beauty for decades.

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