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Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU: The Jacksonville Owner’s Guide
Cambridge Pavers home additions and ADU projects in Jacksonville typically run $45,000 to $130,000 installed, depending on square footage, foundation work, and whether you’re tying into existing Cambridge hardscape or starting fresh. That range covers a finished addition with paver integration, electrical rough-in, drywall, and flooring. Most Jacksonville homeowners call us after they’ve had a smaller patio or walkway done with Cambridge pavers and now want the same material language carried into a larger structural project, or they’ve got an existing paver pad that’s settling and they’re wondering if it can support an ADU slab. The short answer: Cambridge pavers sit on a compacted base, not as the structural footing itself, so the failure point is almost always the base, not the paver. We’ll get into that.
Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To
Cambridge manufactures a wide line of concrete pavers, but for home additions and ADU projects in Jacksonville, the relevant products are the Ledgestone, Maytrx, and RoundTable paver families, along with their wall systems for raised patios and step-down entries. These are the lines we see most often on existing Jacksonville homes that were built or landscaped in the last fifteen years. The compatibility gotcha: Cambridge pavers are dimensionally consistent within a series, but you cannot mix a Ledgestone paver with a Maytrx paver and expect the joint lines to read correctly. They’re different thicknesses. Ledgestone runs 60mm, Maytrx runs 80mm in most applications. If you’re extending an existing Cambridge paver patio as part of an addition, you need to match the series exactly, not just the color. We pull a paver, check the underside stamp, and measure the thickness before we order anything. That’s the only reliable way to identify it. Cambridge does not print series names on the face of the paver, so color matching alone leads to a mismatched joint and a visible seam in the finished work.
Bradford Remodeling Co Jacksonville is an independent service provider. We’re not affiliated with Cambridge Pavers, and we don’t speak for their warranty department. What we do is install their product correctly and tell you plainly when an existing Cambridge installation was done wrong.
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Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
Most of what goes wrong with a Cambridge paver addition or ADU site in Jacksonville isn’t the paver itself. It’s what’s underneath. Here’s what we see, in order of frequency:
- Settling or sinking pavers at the addition’s threshold. Jacksonville’s sandy soil and heavy summer rains erode the compacted base over time. Once the base washes out, the pavers drop, and the door or step transition becomes uneven. That’s a trip hazard and a water-entry point.
- Paver edge shifting at the perimeter. If the original install skipped edge restraint, the outside row walks outward under foot traffic. The pattern opens up, and the whole field looks sloppy within a couple of years.
- Low spots that hold water after a rain. This means the base wasn’t graded to shed water, or it was graded but has since compacted unevenly. Standing water on pavers in Florida breeds mildew, and on an ADU entryway it tracks moisture inside.
- Cracks running through individual pavers. Cambridge pavers are high-strength concrete, but a point load, like an AC condenser pad or an improperly set post, will crack them. A cracked paver in a field usually means something heavy is sitting on it that shouldn’t be.
- Weed growth through the joints. Polymeric sand breaks down over time in Jacksonville’s wet-dry cycle. Once it’s gone, weeds root, and the joints open up for more water penetration. It’s a slow failure, but it accelerates every summer.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For a full Cambridge pavers home addition or ADU project in Jacksonville, the installed range is $45,000 to $130,000. The spread comes down to three things: square footage, whether you need new footings and a slab pour, and how much existing hardscape has to be removed and reworked. A simple paver patio extension tied to an addition is the bottom of the range. A full standalone ADU with a paver courtyard, walkways, and a retaining wall lands at the top.
| Project Component | Jacksonville Installed Range |
|---|---|
| Home addition shell with paver tie-in | $45,000 – $130,000 |
| ADU construction (full build) | $90,000 – $220,000 |
| Paver patio installation (standalone) | $3,500 – $11,000 |
| Paver driveway installation (standalone) | $7,000 – $18,000 |
Every Bradford Remodeling Co Jacksonville project gets a written price before work starts. That’s The Garrison Standard, and it’s non-negotiable. The number we put on paper is the number you pay, unless you change the scope. No change orders appear out of nowhere at closeout. Our installs include base excavation, compaction, edge restraint, paver placement, and polymeric sand. If we’re doing an ADU, the electrical, plumbing rough-in, drywall, and finish work are all line-itemed in the written scope. Every project carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work fails within a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. We put that in writing, too.
DIY or Call Us?
You can inspect your existing Cambridge paver installation safely. Look for low spots after rain, check the edges for movement, and note any cracked pavers. That’s useful information, and it helps us give you a tighter estimate over the phone. What you shouldn’t do is start pulling pavers and re-compacting a base yourself if the project involves a structural addition. A home addition or ADU has a foundation, and the paver work has to be sequenced with the concrete pour, the drainage plan, and the door threshold elevations. If the paver base isn’t compacted in lifts, it settles. We’ve fixed plenty of homeowner base prep jobs that looked flat the day they finished and were wavy two rainy seasons later. Curtis Lane has seen it a hundred times: the base is the actual job, and the pavers are just the finish. Scope it right the first time, the job goes a lot smoother when nobody’s surprised. Call (904) 337-5929 and we’ll walk the site with you.
FAQs
With a properly compacted base and intact edge restraint, Cambridge concrete pavers routinely last 30 to 40 years in Jacksonville’s climate. The base material is what degrades first, not the paver. Expect to reapply polymeric sand every 5 to 8 years. Call (904) 337-5929 and we’ll inspect your base condition before recommending any paver replacement.
Yes, in most cases the pavers themselves can be lifted, cleaned, and reset as part of the new scope. The base underneath almost always needs to be re-excavated and re-compacted. If the pavers are cracked or the series has been discontinued, we’ll source the closest current Cambridge match. The estimate will tell you exactly what’s reused and what’s new.
A paver patio tied into an addition typically runs 2 to 4 weeks. A full ADU with paver hardscape is a 3 to 5 month build. Weather and permitting drive the schedule, and we put the timeline in the written scope before we start.
We order Cambridge pavers project by project to match your existing series and color. We don’t warehouse pallets, because storing pavers outdoors in Florida’s humidity causes efflorescence and color variation. A fresh order from a Cambridge distributor, delivered right before installation, is the cleanest result. We’ll handle the order and the delivery schedule.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner, Bradford Remodeling Co Jacksonville, serving Jacksonville and nearby areas.
