How do I Decide Between Pavers and Concrete?
After you evaluate your goals and means for a patio, poolside, driveway, or walkway, you will be able to decide whether concrete or pavers are right for you. Poured concrete is installed in large, solid blocks and has the advantages of acid stains, pattern stamps, or rough, safety textures for better disability access. Pavers are interlocking tiles of concrete, and some people like their flexibility, color, and architectural appearance. Of course, both pavers and concrete have distinct advantages and disadvantages. Once you consider how you want to use your pavement, the size of your budget, your expectations of durability, and your design vision, one will probably emerge as your preferred choice. Keep in mind that although both materials are made of concrete, can be colored, and form limitless shapes and sizes, they are nevertheless quite different. Poured concrete slabs are a traditional, fairly low maintenance possibility. For example, since they are a continuous surface, there are
An interesting compromise, if you can not decide between pavers and concrete. Stamped concrete is still elegant. Poured pavement of concrete, design is pressed into the top before it dries. This effect, more or less mimics the look of pavers for a lower installation cost. Stamped or stenciled concrete designs overcome the disadvantages associated with traditional pavers – Pavers become loose and uneven and there is high maintenance required to remove weed growth. Our Concrete patterns are “endless”.
