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Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU: The Santa Clarita Owner’s Guide
If you’re planning a home addition or ADU in Santa Clarita and want Cambridge Pavers as part of the hardscape and exterior finish, we install the full line of Cambridge pavers as part of our general contracting work. A typical home addition in Santa Clarita runs $45,000 – $130,000, while a full ADU construction generally lands between $90,000 and $220,000, and the paver portion of that work is priced as a written line item before anything starts. Most owners contact us when they realize their existing paver surfaces need to be removed, reset, or integrated into a new foundation line, and they want one crew handling the whole project instead of juggling three different subcontractors.
What you get from us is a straight answer about how Cambridge Pavers fit into the addition or ADU, which series work best for Santa Clarita’s soil movement and summer heat, and a written price that covers the pavers, the base prep, the cutting, and the clean-up. We’re an independent remodeling contractor in Santa Clarita, not a Cambridge Pavers dealer, but we’ve installed enough of their product to know what holds up and what needs extra base work here.
Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To
We work with the full Cambridge Pavers catalog, but for Santa Clarita home additions and ADUs, most families end up choosing from three lines: the Ledgestone series, the Maytrx collection, and the traditional Cambridge Cobble. The Ledgestone series is a tumbled paver with a worn, natural edge that hides chips well, and it tends to be the first choice when the addition is attached to an older home where a brand-new paver would look out of place. The Maytrx line is a linear, contemporary paver that works well with the stucco and flat-plane architecture common in newer Santa Clarita neighborhoods like Bridgeport and Tesoro del Valle.
One compatibility gotcha to know: Cambridge names their colors differently by region, and the same visual tone is sometimes sold under different names in California than in the Midwest or East Coast. If you’re matching an existing Cambridge Paver patio or walkway, don’t rely on the online color name alone. We photograph the existing pavers in morning light, pull the batch number if it’s still legible, and match from what’s actually being produced for the western market. For additions where the new paver area has a clean break line, a near-match in a complementary color often looks better than a failed exact match.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Edge pavers lifting or rocking at the new-foundation seam. Santa Clarita’s clay-heavy soil expands and contracts with rain and drought, and where a new foundation meets an older paver surface, the base is rarely compacted the same depth. The fix is cutting back to solid base and reinstalling with a proper edge restraint.
- Low spots in the paver surface that pond water near the addition. In Santa Clarita, ponding happens when the compacted base under the pavers was never deep enough for the soil type, or when irrigation runoff has been washing fines out from under the edge. We remove the pavers, re-grade, and reinstall.
- Faded or chalky surface on pavers installed near the new stucco line. This is usually from stucco wash-out or acid residue from the addition’s exterior work, not a paver defect. We clean and reseal, or replace the affected pavers if the staining has set.
- Cracks running in straight lines through the paver field. A straight-line crack almost always traces back to movement at the base layer, not a bad paver. It shows up where the addition’s drainage changed the water path under the pavers.
- Paver color mismatch where the new ADU meets the old patio. Older Cambridge pavers fade in the Santa Clarita sun at a different rate than new pallets. We adjust placement and blend from the stock on hand so the transition looks intentional.
If you’re seeing any of these, call (661) 542-4056 and we’ll come look at the actual base conditions before we quote anything. A written price covers the fix, not a guess.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For a Cambridge Pavers home addition or ADU project in Santa Clarita, the paver-scope portion is billed as its own line item inside the larger remodel contract. As a reference, a full home addition here runs $45,000 – $130,000, and an ADU construction runs $90,000 – $220,000. The paver work within that scope, if it involves buying and installing new Cambridge pavers with proper base prep, typically falls between $12 and $22 per square foot installed, depending on the series, the amount of cutting, and whether the subgrade needs to be re-compacted or removed.
What drives the range is what’s under the pavers. If the existing base is sound, we can pull, level, and reset. If the base was never deep enough for Santa Clarita clay, we excavate and rebuild it. Every quote includes the pavers from our supplier, the base material, all cutting, edge restraint, joint sand, and clean-up, written as one number. The price on the paper is the price on the invoice, and the work carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not done right, we make it right.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things before calling: look for edge pavers that rock under foot, note any standing water after a rain, and check whether the new addition’s downspouts discharge onto the paver area. That last one causes more paver failure in Santa Clarita than anything else. You can also look at whether the joint sand between pavers is washing out near the downspout discharge point.
What you shouldn’t do is pull up a section of pavers to “peek” at the base in an area that carries foot traffic to the new addition or ADU. Without re-compacting the base and re-setting the edge restraint, the pavers will not sit the same, and the problem you were trying to diagnose becomes the problem you created. For anything beyond a visual walk-around, call (661) 542-4056. We’ll look at the base depth, the drainage path, and the paver condition, then tell you honestly what needs to happen and what it will cost before any work is scheduled.
FAQs
With a properly compacted base and regular joint sand top-ups, Cambridge Pavers can last 25 to 30 years in Santa Clarita’s climate. The pavers themselves rarely fail; it’s the base, the edge restraint, and the drainage that determine lifespan. Call (661) 542-4056 for a base inspection on any paver area you’re concerned about.
Yes, in most cases we can lift, clean, and re-lay your existing Cambridge Pavers as part of the addition’s exterior scope, provided they aren’t cracked through or heavily stained. Reusing them saves real money on the material side. Call (661) 542-4056 and we’ll tell you honestly whether your existing stock is worth saving.
For a typical paver area tied to a home addition or ADU in Santa Clarita, the paver install itself takes 3 to 7 working days once the base is ready. The full addition or ADU timeline is much longer, but the paver scope is a short, predictable phase. We’ll put the sequence in writing before any work starts.
We order Cambridge Pavers to spec through our regular supplier for pick-up in the Santa Clarita area, which usually means a 3 to 5 day lead time. We also keep a small stock of the most common Santa Clarita colors on hand for repair and matching work. Call (661) 542-4056 and we’ll check current availability for your color and series.
Written by Graham Stein, Owner, Elmstead Remodeling Santa Clarita at Elmstead Remodeling Santa Clarita, serving Santa Clarita and nearby areas.
