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Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU: The San Antonio Owner’s Guide
We install Cambridge Pavers-compatible home additions and ADU hardscape packages across San Antonio, and the honest installed price for a full addition or ADU with Cambridge Pavers features typically runs $45,000 to $130,000 depending on square footage, site prep, and utility tie-ins. That’s the number you should use for ballpark budgeting before you get into the weeds. Most San Antonio homeowners discover their project needs a specific Cambridge Pavers component mid-install: an edge restraint fails, a base course settles under our summer rains, or the original job never had the right joint sand locked in. We stock the common replacement pieces and run installation teams who fix these issues fast.
Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To
Cambridge Pavers makes dozens of paver lines, but the ones we see most on San Antonio home additions and ADUs are the Ledgestone, ArmorTec, and RoundTable collections. Each has a different locking mechanism on the sidewall, and that matters because a paver from one line will not seat properly against another. If you’ve got a cracked or sunken paver near your ADU entry, grab a tape measure before you call: Ledgestone runs thicker (60mm), ArmorTec runs 60mm with a beveled edge, and RoundTable is a smaller-format piece. The OEM-versus-aftermarket call for Cambridge Pavers specifically comes down to color match. Cambridge runs tight dye lots, and an aftermarket paver that looks close in a photo will show its true colors under Texas sun. For structural pieces like edge restraints and base panels, we’ll use quality aftermarket equivalents every time with zero performance difference. Sawyer Remodel San Antonio is an independent installer; we are not affiliated with Cambridge Pavers, but we know their product specs cold because we’ve been fixing and building with them across Bexar County for years.
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Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Sunken or tilted pavers near the ADU foundation line. This is almost always a base settling issue in San Antonio’s clay-heavy soil, which expands and contracts with moisture far more than out-of-state gravel beds. The fix means pulling the section, recompacting, and re-setting.
- Joint sand washing out after every rain. Cambridge polymeric sand should lock up after one wetting cycle. If it keeps disappearing, the original install likely used standard sand or skipped the edge restraint, and water is moving underneath the pavers.
- Visible gaps at the paver edge where the restraint has pulled away. Edge restraints fail when they weren’t spiked deep enough or when a mower keeps clipping them. Once the edge opens, the whole field can drift.
- White crusty residue on pavers. That’s efflorescence, and while it’s cosmetic, it indicates trapped moisture migrating through the paver. In San Antonio’s freeze-thaw cycles, trapped moisture eventually causes surface spalling.
- Hairline cracks running through multiple pavers in a line. A single cracked paver is usually a dropped tool or impact. A line of cracks means a base failure or a structural load the pavers weren’t designed to carry.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For San Antonio specifically, here’s what we quote on Cambridge Pavers work tied to home additions and ADUs:
- Full paver patio or walkway for an ADU entrance: $3,500 – $11,000 installed
- Paver driveway for a home addition: $7,000 – $18,000 installed
- Sectional repair (reset, recompact, new sand, replaced pavers): $800 – $2,500 depending on square footage
- Full home addition build including Cambridge Pavers hardscape: $45,000 – $130,000
- Complete ADU construction (structure plus pavers, utilities, finishes): $90,000 – $220,000
The range moves based on how much base material we have to remove and rebuild, whether drainage needs re-grading, and how many pavers are beyond saving. Every quote includes parts, labor, haul-away, and our written warranty. We deliver a written price before any work starts, which is part of The Relay Standard Luca Romano enforces on every job we run.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely inspect the paver field yourself. Walk the edge lines, look for drift, run a hose over the joints and watch how the water moves. What you shouldn’t do is pull up pavers and start recompacting base material with a hand tamper. That’s how San Antonio homeowners end up with a worse grade than they started with, and in a climate that gets heavy spring storms, a bad grade sends water toward your ADU slab instead of away from it. If you’re seeing structural movement, call (432) 547-6806. We’ll send someone who has fixed this exact failure mode before.
FAQs
Cambridge Pavers installed over a properly compacted base will last 25 – 40 years in the San Antonio climate, but the joint sand and edge restraints have a shorter service life of 8 – 12 years before they need refreshing.
Yes, if the failure is isolated to one section and the surrounding base is stable, we can reset just that area for $800 – $2,500 instead of tearing out the full field.
A sectional repair takes one to two days including base recompaction. A full paver patio or ADU entry package takes three to five days, and a full home addition with pavers runs the normal construction timeline of eight to sixteen weeks.
We keep the most common Cambridge Pavers replacement pieces for Ledgestone and ArmorTec lines stocked, plus edge restraints and polymeric sand. Special-order colors can be sourced within three to five business days from our San Antonio suppliers.
If you’ve got a Cambridge Pavers surface on your San Antonio home addition or ADU that isn’t right, call (432) 547-6806. I’ll give you an honest read on what’s failing, what it takes to fix it, and a written price that doesn’t change when the crew shows up.
Written by Luca Romano, Owner, Sawyer Remodel San Antonio at Sawyer Remodel San Antonio, serving San Antonio and nearby areas.
