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CertainTeed Driveway & Pavers: The Long Beach Owner’s Guide
We stock and install CertainTeed-compatible driveway pavers and replacement parts throughout Long Beach, with typical installed pricing running $7,000 to $18,000 for a full paver driveway depending on square footage, base condition, and paver style. Most owners discover they have a problem the same way: a paver cracks under a car tire, a section starts sinking after a rain, or the sand joints wash out and weeds take over. The good news is a failing paver driveway rarely needs a from-scratch teardown if you catch it early.
CertainTeed no longer manufactures pavers under that brand name in the U.S. market, but thousands of Long Beach homes still have CertainTeed paver driveways from their 1990s and early 2000s product lines. What owners actually need is a contractor who can match the paver size, color, and texture closely enough that the repair disappears into the existing surface. That’s where we come in, and where most handymen fall short. Luca Romano has replaced and repaired enough CertainTeed-style concrete pavers across Long Beach to know which aftermarket lines match the old CertainTeed color batches, and which ones will look wrong from ten feet away.
Key takeaways:
- CertainTeed-branded pavers are no longer manufactured, but matching replacements are available and we install them regularly across Long Beach
- A paver driveway repair or replacement in Long Beach runs $7,000 – $18,000, with sealing at $250 – $700
- Most failures are base-prep or drainage issues, not the pavers themselves wearing out
- Written price before work starts, every time, per The Relay Visibility Guarantee
Which CertainTeed Models This Applies To
CertainTeed produced several concrete paver lines under names like Monogram, Holland Stone, and a 4×8 and 6×9 modular series that showed up in dozens of Long Beach subdivisions, particularly newer builds in Bixby Knolls, Lakewood Village, and the Ranchos. The pavers themselves are typically 60mm or 80mm thick, with 80mm being the one you want under a driveway that sees daily car traffic. If you can measure the thickness at an exposed edge, you’ll know whether your original installer cut corners.
Here’s the compatibility gotcha most owners miss: paver manufacturers changed their molds over time, so a “Holland Stone” from a 2005 CertainTeed run will not be visually identical to a 2026 aftermarket Holland Stone. The dimensions will match, but the chamfer, surface texture, and color depth will drift. We keep sample boards of the closest current matches to old CertainTeed color lots, like the charcoal gray and the desert tan that dominate Long Beach driveways. You can’t match these from a phone photo. Luca has to put the physical sample on your driveway in daylight to see if it blends.
OEM CertainTeed pavers are long out of production, so the OEM-versus-aftermarket discussion is mostly settled: you’ll buy aftermarket. The real decision is which manufacturer’s equivalent we point you to, and that depends on color match, paver thickness, and whether you’re repairing a section or replacing the whole driveway. We are an independent contractor and not affiliated with CertainTeed, which matters because we’ll steer you to whatever matches best, not whatever a brand rep tells us to push.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your CertainTeed Driveway & Pavers Is Failing
- Sinking or depressed sections, usually near the street apron or along the garage approach. This is almost always a base failure. Long Beach’s clay-heavy soil expands and contracts with rain, and if the original installer skimped on the crushed aggregate base, the pavers sink within a few seasons.
- Cracked pavers in the wheel path. A 60mm paver under a 4,000-pound car with a thin base will crack along the wheel tracks. We see this constantly in Naples and Belmont Shore, where driveways are short and cars park in the same two ruts every night.
- Sand washing out between joints after every rain. Polymeric sand fails when there’s no edge restraint or when water runs across the surface instead of draining off. Without the sand, the pavers shift and chip against each other.
- Weeds and ants colonizing the joints. The sand is gone and nothing is holding the pavers apart. This is a symptom, not the disease, but left alone it accelerates paver shifting.
- Edges spreading outward, especially along flower beds or un-restrained borders. Paver driveways need a solid edge restraint. Without one, the outside rows walk outward an inch or two a year until the whole field loosens.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
In Long Beach, a full certainteed-style paver driveway installation runs $7,000 to $18,000, and the spread comes down to three things: how much square footage you’re covering, whether we’re reusing or rebuilding the base, and whether you want a basic 4×8 modular paver or a larger 6×9 with a more finished look. A paver patio addition runs $3,500 to $11,000 if you’re extending the hardscape. Driveway sealing on an existing paver surface is $250 to $700.
A full replacement includes demolishing and hauling the old pavers, excavating to proper depth, compacting a new crushed aggregate base, installing edge restraint, laying and compacting the pavers, and sweeping in polymeric sand. That’s the whole job, and the written price you approve before we start is the price you pay. If the driveway fails again within a year because of our base work or install, the 365-Day Done Right Promise means we fix it without charging you a second time. That promise is in writing, not implied.
DIY or Call Us?
You can inspect your own driveway safely. Look at the edges, look for standing water after rain, and measure the paver thickness if you have an exposed edge. What you shouldn’t do is lift a section of pavers and try to re-level the base yourself. You need a plate compactor, the right aggregate, and a way to haul off the old material. A homeowner with a tamper from Home Depot will have the pavers sinking again by the next rainy season, and now they’ve also got a pile of loose pavers stacked against the garage.
If the issue is one cracked paver in an otherwise sound field, that’s actually a simple job for us and usually done in a day. The hard part is matching the paver, and that’s exactly the part people get wrong. We carry a range of matching pavers on the truck for the most common Long Beach color lots, so a service visit often ends with the repair done on the spot. If you’d rather not guess, call us at (562) 512-6480 and we’ll come look, put a written price in your hand, and tell you honestly whether you need one paver or a full rebuild.
FAQs
A properly built paver driveway in Long Beach lasts 25 to 30 years before the base needs serious attention, assuming the base was compacted correctly and the edge restraint holds. The weak point is usually the base, not the paver itself. Call (562) 512-6480 if you want us to assess whether your base is still doing its job.
Yes, if the surrounding pavers are still sound and the base under the repair area is stable, we can replace individual pavers or a small section without redoing the whole driveway. The challenge is color matching, which we handle by keeping physical samples of the closest current equivalents to old CertainTeed colors. Call us for a free estimate and we’ll tell you if a repair makes sense.
Most Long Beach paver driveway replacements take three to five working days from demolition to final sand sweep, depending on size, weather, and whether we’re rebuilding the base from scratch. A single-paver repair is typically same-day. Written timeline comes with the written price before we start.
We stock the most common paver sizes and colors for Long Beach homes, including matches for the old CertainTeed modular lines, and we special-order anything unusual within a few days. Along with paver matches, we also work with KraftMaid, Cambria, and Silestone on interior projects if your driveway project expands inside. Call (562) 512-6480 and we’ll tell you what’s on the truck.
Written by Luca Romano, Owner, Sawyer Remodel Long Beach at Sawyer Remodel Long Beach, serving Long Beach and nearby areas.
