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AfterFast, Reliable Driveway & Pavers Across Ontario
A paver driveway in Ontario typically runs $7,000 to $18,000, while a standard concrete driveway lands between $4,500 and $12,000. Those are the honest numbers for this market in 2026, and they reflect what we see on nearly every job we scope across the 91762, 91764, and 91761 ZIP codes. If you’re off Euclid Avenue near the 10, up around Creekside, or out in the newer Ontario Ranch tracts, call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll give you a written, line-item range before you commit to anything.
We’re Barrett & Sons Construction. Tom Barrett started this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews today. A live person answers our phone 24/7, not a voicemail box or an out-of-state call center. When you call about a cracked driveway or a failing paver patio in Ontario, you’ll talk to someone who knows the difference between a fill-line crack on a 2018 Ontario Ranch slab and spalling from four decades of Inland Empire sun on a 1960s ranch home.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Ontario’s Preferred Driveway & Pavers Company
Ontario is a strange mix of old and new. Walk the streets off Holt Boulevard in 91762 and you’ll see bungalows from the 1920s with original flatwork that’s cracked in ways only time and adobe-heavy soil can cause. Drive south to Ontario Ranch and you’ll pass brand-new homes with driveways already showing settlement cracks at the fill lines where old dairy parcels were cut and graded. We’ve worked both ends of this city and everything between. That’s not a sales line, it’s why our crews don’t get surprised when a job looks simple on paper and isn’t.
Our reputation in Ontario comes from doing what we said we’d do, on paper, before any work starts. Every scope, every allowance, every change order arrives in writing before our crew touches the driveway. Tom publishes his name, his address, and his license number, look it up before you sign with anyone. We pull permits and get inspections signed on every eligible job, because the last contractor most Ontario homeowners used told them permits were optional. They’re not.
Our Driveway & Pavers team carries premium materials you can verify, including Belgard and Techo-Bloc pavers and GAF products where roofing intersects with driveway drainage. We’re not pulling mystery brands off a van. And every completed job comes with our 90-Day Done Right Promise, written on the contract, not buried in fine print. If it’s not done right, Tom comes back and makes it right. One call.
Our Driveway & Pavers Services in Ontario
Most Ontario homeowners call us for one of four reasons. Here’s what each looks like in this city, specifically.
Driveway Repair & Replacement
We see two distinct failure patterns in Ontario. In 91762 and 91764, driveways installed before modern rebar standards are simply exhausted, cracked, and spalling after 40 to 70 years of heat cycling. In 91761, Ontario Ranch, we see three- to five-year-old slabs cracked along cut-and-fill boundaries where the original builder’s compactor didn’t reach. Replacement runs $5,000 to $14,000 depending on square footage, demo depth, and whether we’re fixing the subgrade or just resurfacing over a stable base. If your driveway has a long crack that runs in a straight line and opens and closes seasonally, that’s differential settlement, not normal wear. Call us before you seal it.
Paver Driveways
Paver driveways are the smart choice for much of Ontario because they flex instead of cracking. On Ontario Ranch lots with expansive clay and aggressive cut-and-fill, individual pavers can shift and re-seat without telegraphing cracks through the entire surface like a monolithic slab would. A paver driveway in Ontario runs $7,000 to $18,000. The price depends on whether we’re excavating an old slab, how much aggregate base we’re importing, the paver product you choose, and the edge restraints. We’ve done enough paver work on former vineyard land in the south end to know that the base prep is 80% of the job.
Concrete Driveways & Concrete Work
Concrete in Ontario is a scheduling game. July and August regularly hit 108 to 112 degrees, and you cannot pour quality concrete at 2 p.m. in that heat, the surface cures too fast, crazes, and leaves you with a weak top layer. We pour pre-dawn during the summer months, starting at 4 a.m. or earlier, per Cal/OSHA’s outdoor heat standard. Standard concrete driveway installation in Ontario runs $4,500 to $12,000. Stamped concrete, a flatwork upgrade we do often around the older neighborhoods where curb appeal matters, lands on the higher end of that range because of the additional finishing work.
Asphalt Driveways & Resurfacing
Asphalt is less common for Ontario residential driveways than concrete or pavers, but it shows up on acreage properties and long rural approaches in the unincorporated pockets around the city, where homeowners want a long, smooth run for trailers, RVs, and equipment. Asphalt paving runs $3,500 to $9,000. Resurfacing over an existing asphalt base is cheaper than a full-depth replacement, but only if the underlying aggregate is still stable. We’ll tell you honestly which one you need.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Common Driveway & Pavers Problems We See in Ontario Homes
- Differential settlement across cut-and-fill boundaries. Ontario Ranch was carved from old dairy and vineyard land, and not every pad was compacted equally. A slab that crosses a fill line will crack along that line within three to five years. We see it constantly.
- Santa Ana wind damage to new pours. The Cajon Pass funnels strong fall winds through Ontario, and a fresh concrete pour with wind-blown debris hitting it will pit and scar. We monitor wind conditions before scheduling exterior work between September and November.
- Heat-crazed concrete on rushed summer pours. If a contractor pours at mid-day in August to stay on schedule, the surface moisture flashes off and the top quarter-inch fails. That’s not an aesthetic problem, it’s a structural weakness that leads to scaling and spalling within a year.
- Aging flatwork on pre-rebar foundations. Ontario’s older core didn’t have modern steel reinforcing. A 1950s driveway in 91762 is often nothing more than a 4-inch slab on native soil. It’s done its job for 60-plus years, but replacement now means bringing the subgrade up to current code.
Pricing for Driveway & Pavers in Ontario, CA
Here are the real numbers for Ontario’s market. These are the same ranges we quote on our written estimates, and they hold unless your site has unusual grading, access, or subgrade conditions.
| Service | Ontario Price Range |
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| Paver Driveway Installation | $7,000 - $18,000 |
| Concrete Driveway Installation | $4,500 - $12,000 |
| Driveway Replacement | $5,000 - $14,000 |
| Paver Patio Installation | $3,500 - $11,000 |
What moves the price? Demolition and haul-off of an old slab, site access, the depth of aggregate base we need to import, any grading or drainage corrections, and the finish you choose. We scope all of that before quoting. You’ll get a written line-item range, and any change during the job arrives as a written change order before we touch it. No surprises at the end. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate.
The Ontario Ranch Problem Nobody Talks About
Most driveways in Ontario Ranch were built over cut-and-fill grading that converted agricultural parcels into buildable pads. The original vineyard and dairy land sloped, so developers cut high ground and filled low ground to flatten lots for tract housing. When fill isn’t compacted in lifts with the right moisture content, it settles unevenly over time. The result: a driveway slab that bridges between cut soil on one end and fill soil on the other will crack right at the transition line. We’ve fixed enough of them to know the pattern before we even see the driveway.
This is the piece that doesn’t show up on a generic contractor’s estimate. Most won’t know the history. We do. We scoped a paver driveway replacement in Ontario Ranch after the original concrete slab had cracked along the fill line from the old dairy parcel. Our crew saw-cut the failed slab, re-compacted the subgrade in lifts, and laid a permeable paver system over a new aggregate base so future differential movement wouldn’t telegraph through the surface. The punch list included re-grading the side yard to keep runoff away from the new foundation piers.
We’ve also worked the older side of Ontario, where a 1948 bungalow on a native-soil foundation means the driveway and the house are settling together, slowly, and that’s fine until it isn’t. Knowing which kind of Ontario property you’re dealing with changes how we scope the base, the drainage, and the warranty.
Trusted Brands We Service in Ontario
We install pavers from Belgard and Techo-Bloc, two names you can research before you sign. Where roofing ties into driveway and flatwork drainage, we use GAF products we already trust on the roof side of our work. We don’t carry mystery brands, and we don’t swap in cheaper substitutions mid-job. If we quote Belgard, you get Belgard.
We Also Serve Cities Near Ontario
If you’re in Montclair, Upland, Chino, or Claremont, we serve those communities too. Ontario is central to our service area, and our crews move easily between these cities along the 10 and 60 corridors. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll schedule your free estimate wherever you are in the area.
Serving Ontario, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Ontario area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Driveway & Pavers in Ontario
Ontario Ranch was built on aggressively cut-and-filled former vineyard and dairy land, and the compacted fill beneath many newer slabs settles unevenly within three to five years. Older Ontario neighborhoods had decades to settle naturally, so their cracks come from age, not movement under the slab. The fix is a properly re-compacted subgrade and a paver system or reinforced slab, not a surface patch. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact quote, estimates are free.
Within Ontario city limits, driveway replacement falls under city permitting rules, and we pull permits and get inspections signed on every eligible job. For unincorporated county pockets on acreage, the rules differ, and we’ll flag which jurisdiction you’re in during the estimate. That’s not something you want to guess at. We handle it in writing before work starts.
Ontario hits 108 to 112 degrees regularly in July and August, and concrete poured in that heat without pre-dawn scheduling or proper curing compounds will craze and fail early. We pour exterior concrete before sunrise during summer months and use evaporation retarders when needed. A contractor who pours at 1 p.m. in August is handing you a future repair bill.
Sometimes, yes. If the existing slab in 91762 or 91764 is cracked but still structurally sound and stable, we can overlay pavers on a thin sand base. If the slab is heaving, sunken, or sitting on failing subgrade, the old concrete has to come out first. We’ll tell you which situation you have after we inspect it, and we won’t sell you an overlay that won’t last.
Yes. Decomposed granite compacts well but drains fast, and where it sits over fill it can settle unevenly. We build paver patios and walkways in Ontario Ranch with a thicker aggregate base than we’d use in older Ontario neighborhoods, and we re-compact in lifts. That extra 15 to 20 percent of base material is what keeps your pavers flat five years from now. Call (877) 610-1318 for a written estimate, free of charge.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction. Serving Ontario and the Inland Empire since 1998.