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Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU: The Riverside Owner’s Guide

Homes built in Riverside largely rely on additions constructed from a handful of standard materials, but Cambridge Pavers products aren’t typically the load-bearing component of an addition or ADU. What we usually see is a homeowner planning an addition or ADU and wanting the existing Cambridge Pavers hardscape to integrate with the new structure, or needing Cambridge Pavers removed, re-laid, or extended as part of the build. Installed pricing for a home addition in Riverside runs $45,000 – $130,000, while an ADU typically lands between $90,000 – $220,000. The paver work within that scope usually accounts for $3,500 – $11,000 depending on square footage, access, and whether we’re extending an existing Cambridge Pavers patio or walkway. If your pavers are shifting, sinking, or pulling away from the foundation line ahead of an addition, that’s the first place to look.

Which Cambridge Pavers Models This Applies To

Cambridge Pavers manufactures several product lines commonly found in Riverside yards: the Maytrx, Ledgestone, RoundTable, and Sherwood collections among them. Each line carries different dimensions, thicknesses, and edge profiles, and that matters when you’re tying an addition into existing hardscape. A Maytrx paver is 3-1/8″ thick and runs in a modular pattern; a Sherwood paver is thinner at 2-3/8″ and sits differently against a stem wall. If you’re pulling pavers to pour footings or trench utilities, the re-lay has to account for the same depth of base material and the same joint spacing or the field won’t match. We also encounter homeowners who installed Cambridge Pavers a decade ago and need to match the color lot. Pavers fade, and the current production of “Charcoal” won’t match a 2012 Charcoal exactly. We pull extra pavers from less visible areas, like behind a shed or under a future deck, to use as field replacements where the eye can’t tell. That’s the kind of detail that keeps an addition looking like it belongs to the house instead of stitched onto it.

Signs Your Cambridge Pavers Home Additions & ADU Is Failing

Here are the five things we see in Riverside before an addition starts:

• Paver settlement around the footprint where the addition will tie in. Clay-rich soil in areas like the Arlington Heights and La Sierra neighborhoods expands and contracts hard with our wet-dry cycles. Pavers drop half an inch, then a full inch, and the base has failed. An addition built to grade without correcting this inherits the same movement.
• Edge restraint failing along walkways and pool decks. The plastic or aluminum edging was never staked deep enough. Once the edge migrates, pavers follow. Runoff from the new roofline will make it worse if we don’t re-edge before construction starts.
• Efflorescence or paver surface flaking, especially on older Cambridge units. This is cosmetic usually, not structural, but it tells us the paver’s face has reached the end of its useful life. Re-laying it next to fresh pavers highlights the difference immediately.
• Standing water that used to drain. A Cambridge paver patio that held slope now puddles because the subbase washed out. In a Riverside winter, that water sits against the slab or stem wall of the new addition and wants in.
• Cracks propagating in the concrete bond beam or footer area where pavers meet the house. This one isn’t the paver’s fault, but it shows up in the same work zone. We’ll want to cut back pavers and open the area to inspect before framing starts.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

If the paver work is part of a larger addition, plan on $3,500 – $11,000 for a standard re-lay or extension in Riverside. That covers demo of the existing field, haul-off, new compacted base material, re-laying the Cambridge Pavers to grade, fresh edge restraint, and polymeric sand in the joints. If the pavers themselves are too far gone to re-use, new Cambridge Paver material adds $4 to $9 per square foot on top of base and labor, depending on the line you select. If the scope is a full ADU with new paver access paths or a patio, the paver portion typically runs $5,000 – $11,000 as part of the broader $90,000 – $220,000 ADU budget. Every Bradford Remodeling Co Riverside estimate is a written line-item price. No numbers that move at the door. The workmanship is covered under the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the pavers shift, sink, or separate at the edges within the first year, we come back and correct it at no charge.

DIY or Call Us?

You can inspect a paver field yourself. Walk it barefoot. Feel for wobble, gaps wider than a quarter inch, or soft spots that give under your heel. Mark problem areas with chalk before we arrive so we’re both looking at the same thing. What you shouldn’t do is pull pavers adjacent to a foundation or retaining wall. The paver field often carries lateral load, and pulling the wrong section can destabilize the base and let water run where it shouldn’t. Trenching for a new ADU’s electrical or plumbing under an existing paver patio is doable, but we want to see the base thickness and plan the re-compaction before the trench is opened. If you’re planning an addition or ADU in Riverside and the existing Cambridge Pavers need to be integrated properly, not patched, call (424) 567-8472. Curt Lane and the crew will come measure it, give you a straight number, and put the scope in writing.