If your home needs a more upscale driveway, then updating it with concrete pavers may be the best way to go. Here’s how upgrading your driveway can increase your Somers, NY home value.
1. A finished look
A stately home with a boring asphalt driveway just doesn’t send the right message. Like any part of your landscape and hardscape, your driveway should be a reflection of your home’s quality. With so many choices in shapes, styles, colors and textures available, you’re sure to find a concrete paver that perfectly complements your home for a finished look that inspires a great first impression.
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2. Design flexibility
Your home is unique, and your driveway should be unique too! You can think of a driveway as a blank canvas. Mix and match various concrete pavers to achieve outstanding results. For example, consider the beauty of a flagstone-look driveway laid in a modern Ashlar pattern, with a charcoal grey cobblestone border. Design flexibility lets you create a one-of-a-kind driveway that will turn heads.
3. Install it and forget it
If you’ve ever had to redo an asphalt or poured concrete driveway, you know that no matter how great it looks today, within a few years Nature will have taken its toll. Your once-attractive driveway may be cracked, chipped, or have unsightly (and dangerous) bulges or even potholes. A driveway with properly installed concrete paver stones are much stronger than poured concrete or asphalt, and they will significantly outlast these materials. In the unlikely event a paver should break from having something heavy dropped on it - or if you need to dig under the driveway to install utilities - you can replace just one paver or a small section instead of having to resurface the entire driveway.
4. Easy maintenance
Basic maintenance (occasional cleaning and optional sealing) will significantly extend the life of your paver driveway. Even the jointing compound used today is virtually maintenance-free. It inhibits weed growth and is easy to replace if needed. While sealing is optional with most concrete pavers, you can make pavers virtually impregnable and stain-proof by regularly sealing them. With sealants, pavers can resist staining or etching from de-icing chemicals.
5. A greener driveway
The solid surface of poured concrete or asphalt driveways promotes runoff and flooding, and doesn’t replenish groundwater.
However, today you have a choice in creating a greener driveway that isn’t gravel. Many concrete pavers are designed to be permeable - that is, the joints between the pavers are slightly bigger and filled with a coarser jointing compound that allows water to seep into the ground below to prevent runoff and flooding, thus, replenishing the aquifer. Even if oil and other chemicals also seep into the ground, these materials are filtered as they make their way through the substrate into the ground.
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6. Safety
Permeable driveways prevent heat build up (a huge concern on asphalt driveways), and they are also safer in winter because water won’t pool and freeze.
Concrete pavers are also suited for electric snowmelt systems for added convenience and safety.
For more information about how concrete pavers can transform your driveway into a functional work of art that greatly enhances your home’s value, give the pros at Manzer’s a call! We can assist you in choosing the right pavers to create an eye-catching driveway you’ll love to come home to. We’ll install it to perfection.