An interlocking driveway can produce a night and day type transformation in how your property is perceived by your neighbors and passersby alike. For family members it can elevate the physical and tactile experience of the home in ways few other things can or will. But the benefits of interlocking pavers don’t stop there. If you’ve chosen the right company to do the work your new driveway will become the gift that keeps on giving in other ways as well.

Why an Interlocking Driveway is Such a Great Value Proposition

A driveway made of interlocking pavers will enhance the appearance of your entire property from the day it’s installed. But there’s more to this incredible building material than good looks. Interlocking pavers also make tremendous financial sense for a number of reasons, such as.

• Virtually maintenance free – If you’ve had a concrete or asphalt slab driveway in the past you know how disheartening it can be to come outside one fine Toronto morning and discover large cracks in the pavement. Sealing the cracks may buy you some time but then you’ll have a patched up surface staring you in the face every day. Interlocking pavers won’t heave or crack like slab work and thus won’t require expensive, unattractive repair.
• Unequalled durability – Paving stones the Roman laid down in Europe 2,000 years ago are still in use in some places today. The same can be said for some pavers laid down during the colonial era in North America. You may not get 2 millennia out of your interlocking driveway but if they’re installed properly people in the 23rd century might still be using them. Any chance that’ll happen with asphalt or stamped concrete? Hint: don’t hold your breath.
• Easy to repair – Should a tree branch or some other object fall on your driveway and dislodge some of your interlocking pavers a complete repair is a fast and easy thing for a qualified interlocking craftsman. They’ll remove the affected stones, restore the underlying layers to their proper state and replace the stones, with no one being able to tell anything was done.
• Enhanced market value for your home – There is no doubt that installing an interlocking driveway will enhance your home’s market value overnight. Exactly how much will depend on the size of the project and who did the work. The market always responds to quality so if you hired an experienced, well respected company like M.E. Landscaping to install your interlocking pavers you’ll maximize your ROI.
• Long lasting value – If you install a concrete slab driveway today and put your home on the market tomorrow you’ll experience a bump in your home’s value. Should you wait a couple of years during which the slab cracks, begins to sag in places due to water intrusion and begins to sprout weeds any bump in value will have evaporated. With interlocking the increase in value you experience after installation will still be in play years down the road.

So let’s add it up: In all likelihood you won’t have to engage in any sort of maintenance or repair work on your interlocking pavers, you won’t have to replace them in your lifetime if you don’t want to and they’ll add lasting market value to your home. If there is a better value in home improvement projects out there we’ve never heard of it.

Call M.E. Landscaping to discuss the possibility of installing a beautiful, durable and affordable interlocking driveway or walkway on your property. The value they add to your Toronto home today will still be measurable many, many years from now.

When faced with the prospect of resurfacing your driveway you have a number of choices including asphalt, concrete slab, stamped concrete, gravel and interlocking pavers. They all have their upside but none so much as interlocking pavers. While interlocking pavers may set you back more up front than some of the other options what they bring to the table aesthetically, practically and in terms of a value-added proposition simply cannot be beat by any other form of driveway surface. This is where an interlocking driveway by a professional Toronto landscaping company can come to the rescue.

An Interlocking Driveway is Your Best Long-Term Value

Interlocking is the kind of thing that tends to sell itself once people are able to see it up close and witness how it can transform a simple driveway into an experience. For the purposes of this post however, we’ll have to make our argument with words, though truth be told that won’t be all that difficult.

• Looks/Versatility – There is simply no contest between the look of a beautifully designed and installed interlocking driveway and any other type of surface you care to mention. The design possibilities are, literally, unlimited. You can vary the color, size, shape and texture of the pavers. You can create custom patterns within the surface using these different styles of pavers. Every type of look from classical and restrained to personalized post-modernism is available to you. The only limit is your imagination.
• Durability – When properly installed interlocking pavers will stay where you put them, doing their job for decades and longer. Paving stones installed around colonial era homes are still in use today as are some pavers laid down by the Romans nearly two millennia ago. The determining factor in how long your pavers last will be the company that installs them.
• Maintenance – If the sub-layers have been properly constructed your interlocking driveway will be practically maintenance free. Interlocking pavers are not subject to the wear and tear meted out by the freeze/thaw cycle in Toronto like concrete or asphalt. Even if a block should somehow become damaged replacing it is a straightforward process that will take minutes and cost virtually nothing.
• Price – Pavers will typically cost more than other options as mentioned but that statement comes with an enormous asterisk because when you’re on your 3rd or 4th asphalt resurfacing your interlocking pavers will still be looking good and doing their job. The value of pavers is both immediate in the curb appeal they provide and the boost they’ll give to your home’s value and long term due to the decades of maintenance free performance you’ll enjoy.

Other questions people have about interlocking pavers include:

• Can they be installed over existing asphalt or concrete? – Yes.
• Can I install interlocking on my inclined driveway? – Yes.
• Can I install a snowmelt system under the pavers? – Yes.
• Can I change the interlocking pattern without redoing the sub-base? – Yes.

For all of these reasons and more interlocking driveway pavers are the only option a discerning, value-conscious homeowner should consider when it comes time to resurface the driveway. Every other method will wind up costing far more in the long run and add virtually nothing to the aesthetic and bottom line value of your home the way interlocking pavers will.

M.E. Landscaping has been building custom decks, devising and constructing stunning landscapes and installing interlocking driveway pavers for homeowners in the Toronto area for more than a decade. We take great pride in our interlocking work and regularly pass driveway pavers we installed years ago that are still doing their owners proud. Call us on 416-455-9296 for a free, no-obligation consultation, and find out more about the many advantages of interlocking pavers.