The paving around your home adds to its value while making your garden spaces more pleasurable. One durable and attractive material to consider if you're upgrading is concrete pavers. Here are some of their advantages.

Artistic Appeal

The jigsaw nature of pavers adds visual appeal to a yard. Concrete pavers come in various shapes, sizes, and colours, which can be combined in artistic ways. For example, lay oatmeal-coloured large rectangle pavers in a running bond pattern against a border of dark charcoal square pavers set in a diamond pattern. Alternatively, install expansive pavers with pink and beige touches that mimic travertine. Other designs to consider are herringbone, basketweave, and circular paving patterns. You can choose cool greys, warm burnished terracotta shades, or golden sandy hues for the pavers to harmonise with your landscape.

Repairable

A benefit of pavers is that they are repairable in a way that a concrete slab is not. Pavers are set on a compacted gravel and sand base, and they're not glued together. This allows you to remove the pavers to access underground pipes or cables, and you can then relay the pavers in place. While this would be time-consuming, it would be far less difficult than drilling and excavating a concrete slab with heavy machinery to reach the ground beneath. If you want to renovate your landscape, you can also update the pavers by replacing them with a new design.

Long Lasting

Concrete pavers can cope with weather extremes, such as heat and cold. They have some wiggle room to expand and contract with the changing of the seasons, so the pavers don't tend to crack. On the other hand, a concrete slab is set as a monolithic structure with less chance to expand and contract, so it's more likely to crack. If you're laying the pavers on a driveway, they need to be of the required thickness to bear the weight of vehicles. The sub-base will be prepared with this in mind also. Some patterns, such as a diagonal herringbone design, can make the paving even stronger.

Natural Drainage

Something that you may want to avoid with paving is a surface that doesn't allow rainwater to drain, thus forming puddles. Concrete pavers help in this respect, as the rain can trickle between each paver into the sand and gravel underneath. Because pavers don't require hardened grouting, they allow the water to pass through. This will make the paving safer, as you won't have to walk through pools of water in your yard. The pavers will also be saved from the erosion that standing water can cause over time.