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Driveway and paver work in Los Angeles generally runs from $3,000 for a sealing job to $25,000+ for a full paver driveway replacement on a hillside lot, and most projects take 1 to 2 weeks once permits clear. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and we’ve been laying pavers and pouring concrete across Los Angeles long enough to know what the soil, the slopes, and the building department will ask for before they ask it. If you want a straight answer on your driveway, call us at (877) 610-1318. We’ll walk the site, put the scope in writing, and give you a number you can hold us to.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Los Angeles’s Preferred Driveway & Pavers Company
We’re not a franchise operation sending strangers to your door. Tom Barrett runs this company with his sons on the crews most days, and the name on the truck is the name that answers the phone and stands behind the work. When a homeowner in Silver Lake or View Park-Windsor Hills calls about a cracked paver driveway, Tom wants to hear about it first-hand. That’s how we’ve operated since 1998.
Los Angeles homeowners call us because we write everything down. Every allowance, every price change, every scope adjustment arrives as a written change order before work happens. Cheap bids rely on verbal promises and surprise invoices. We rely on paper. And every job we complete carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not done right, one call brings Tom back to make it right.
Our customers in Los Angeles also know we pull permits and get inspections signed on every eligible job. The permit inspector works for you, not for me. That’s why I like him. If a driveway project touches a foundation or sits on a hillside in Tarzana or the Hollywood Hills, the inspector’s sign-off is the proof that your drainage, compaction, and structural details were built to code, not just built to look good.
Our Driveway & Pavers Services in Los Angeles
We handle the full range of Driveway & Pavers work across Los Angeles. Here are the four services homeowners ask about most, with the local wrinkles that matter for each.
Paver Driveways
A Driveway & Pavers project in Los Angeles almost always starts with the sub-base. Los Angeles sits on expansive clay soils in most basin neighborhoods, and clay heaves when wet and shrinks when dry. Sand-set pavers without a properly compacted aggregate base will shift and sink within two wet seasons. We use deeper compacted aggregate and, where LADBS or the Hillside Ordinance requires, a reinforced edge beam tied to the existing foundation. On a hillside lot in Tarzana, we recently replaced a paver driveway pulling away from a 1960s dingbat apartment building’s tuck-under carport. That building triggered Tier 1 soft-story retrofit requirements, so our paver base had to coordinate with a steel moment frame installation. We pulled permits, engineered the base for load-bearing drainage and seismic movement, and the final inspection confirmed everything met code. The driveway looks like a normal paver job. The documentation proves it isn’t.
Concrete Driveways & Concrete Work
Concrete driveways in Los Angeles need to handle more than cars. Santa Ana wind events and infrequent but intense atmospheric river rains put real stress on concrete that’s poorly mixed or poorly cured. We pour with a PSI rating matched to the slope and load, and we cut control joints so the concrete cracks where we want it to crack, not where the soil decides. For homes in Echo Park or Koreatown with older pre-1978 foundations, any new concrete that ties into the existing slab must be planned with the retrofit picture in mind. We coordinate that before the first truck pours.
Asphalt Driveways & Resurfacing
Asphalt is the most budget-friendly option for long flat driveways in Los Angeles, and it takes traffic well. But it’s not right everywhere. Asphalt absorbs heat, which can be brutal in the San Fernando Valley during a string of 95-degree days. It also needs periodic sealcoating to keep the surface from oxidizing and cracking in the dry heat. For homeowners asking about asphalt, we’ll be straight with you: asphalt resurfacing over a failing base is money wasted. We check the sub-base first, then recommend the surface. If concrete or pavers serve you better for the same practical cost, we’ll tell you.
Driveway Repair & Replacement
We see more driveway failures in Los Angeles from ignored drainage than from anything else. A hillside driveway without proper drainage swales and retaining edges erodes from underneath, and the surface follows. We’ve also seen plenty of driveways where a previous contractor laid impermeable concrete over a soft-story building’s tuck-under parking area without coordinating the seismic retrofit. That hides structural deficiencies and can void the retrofit permit. Driveway replacement in Los Angeles isn’t just about tearing out the old surface. It’s about fixing what the old surface was hiding.
What happens when you call
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Los Angeles
We install what we can stand behind, and that means names you can look up. For paver driveways and patios in Los Angeles, we use Techo-Bloc and Cambridge Pavers because they hold their color and dimensional tolerance through our wet-dry cycles. For concrete work, we work with Quikrete products that are proven in Southern California heat and clay. We keep common parts and material lead times short for Los Angeles projects, and if a paver gets damaged five years from now, you won’t have to special-order a discontinued color from a warehouse in Ohio.
Common Driveway & Pavers Problems We See in Los Angeles Homes
- Sand-set pavers on expansive clay. Los Angeles basin soils expand and contract with the wet-dry cycle. Without a compacted aggregate sub-base, pavers heave and settle within two seasons. You’ll see this as sunken sections near the edges and gaps opening between pavers.
- Hillside erosion under the driveway. The Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica Mountains demand proper drainage swales and retaining edges. When a paver driveway is laid on a slope without them, water undercuts the edge, loosens the base, and pulls the whole surface downhill. This is the most common stop-work issue LADBS flags on hillside driveways.
- Retrofit conflicts on older buildings. Pre-1978 wood-frame buildings with tuck-under parking in neighborhoods like Koreatown and Echo Park are often Tier 1 soft-story retrofit candidates. Driveway work that touches the slab or foundation without coordinating with the retrofit scope can hide structural problems and void the retrofit permit.
- Sealcoating over a failing base. Dry heat cracks asphalt from the top down, but a worn-out base fails from underneath. We see driveways in Silver Lake where the owner sealed every year and still has alligator cracking. The seal is fine. The base is gone. You can’t sealcoat that back to life.
Pricing for Driveway & Pavers in Los Angeles, CA
A typical paver driveway installation in Los Angeles runs $8,260 to $21,240 depending on the slope, the access, and whether the existing base can be salvaged. Concrete driveways run $5,310 to $14,160. A full driveway replacement lands between $5,900 and $16,520. Sealing is the cheapest job on the list at $295 to $825, but it’s maintenance, not repair. Here’s the breakdown:
| Service | Price Range in Los Angeles |
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| Paver Driveway Installation | $8,260 - $21,240 |
| Concrete Driveway Installation | $5,310 - $14,160 |
| Asphalt Driveway Paving | $4,130 - $10,620 |
| Driveway Replacement | $5,900 - $16,520 |
| Driveway Sealing | $295 - $825 |
The number that moves the most is slope. A flat driveway in View Park-Windsor Hills can be a straightforward paver or concrete install. A hillside drive in the Hollywood Hills adds engineering, retaining edges, drainage, and often a reinforced beam. All of that goes into the written quote, so you know exactly what you’re paying for. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate on your driveway in Los Angeles.
We Also Serve Cities Near Los Angeles
Beyond Los Angeles proper, our crews work regularly in Koreatown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and View Park-Windsor Hills. We know each neighborhood’s soil, slopes, and permit quirks, and we quote accordingly. See our Driveway & Pavers in Los Angeles page for local project examples and neighborhood-specific notes.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles
Most paver driveways on flat lots don’t need a permit in Los Angeles if you’re replacing the surface in kind. But on a hillside lot, or any job touching a foundation, retaining wall, or drainage system, LADBS will likely require one. We pull permits on every eligible job and never tell you permits are optional. A driveway that fails inspection or gets red-tagged later is a driveway you paid for twice. Call (877) 610-1318 if you’re not sure whether your project needs one, and we’ll tell you straight.
The city’s Mandatory Seismic Retrofit Ordinance applies to pre-1978 wood-frame buildings with tuck-under parking, which includes many 1960s dingbat apartment buildings across Los Angeles. If your driveway paving touches the tuck-under area’s slab, columns, or foundation, the paving scope must coordinate with the structural retrofit. That means the paver sub-base may need engineering as part of the retrofit drawings, and paving over structural deficiencies without addressing them can void the retrofit permit. We’ve managed this exact condition on a Tarzana hillside job. We coordinated with the structural engineer, pulled permits for both scopes, and the final inspection covered everything. Call (877) 610-1318 to talk through your building’s status.
Yes, if the base is engineered for the slope and drainage is handled at the edges. The Santa Anas don’t do much to a properly laid paver driveway, but the rain does. Hollywood Hills driveways sit on steep terrain with soil that saturates quickly during atmospheric river events. Without compacted aggregate, a reinforced edge, and drainage swales, water gets under the pavers and erodes the base. With those three things in place, a well-installed paver driveway handles the wet season beautifully. We build every hillside paver job in Los Angeles to that standard, not to the cheapest bid. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact quote on your hillside drive.
Documented compliance gives your insurer proof that the driveway was built or repaired to the city’s current code. After a storm or seismic event, an insurer will ask what was permitted, what was inspected, and whether the failure came from the build or from the event. If you have permits pulled, inspections signed, and a written change order trail from Barrett & Sons Construction, your claim is a paperwork exercise, not a fight. If you paid cash for an unpermitted sand-set paver job, the adjuster has every reason to deny and walk. We put everything on paper because that paper protects you when the ground moves. That’s the whole point of the 90-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s why Tom Barrett publishes his license number. Call (877) 610-1318 for a quote that includes the documentation.
A compliant quote from us includes a compacted aggregate sub-base, drainage if the slope requires it, a reinforced edge beam where the hillside ordinance applies, coordination with any soft-story retrofit scope, permits pulled, and inspections signed. A low-ball quote leaves out the sub-base, skips drainage, ignores the retrofit, and tells you permits are optional. You’ll find out which one you bought during the first big rain. Get a written, line-item quote and compare it honestly. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll write it all down before you sign anything.
Get Your Free Estimate in Los Angeles
If you’re in Los Angeles and your driveway is heaving, cracking, eroding, or just past its years, call us. Tom Barrett or one of his sons will come out, walk the site, and give you a written estimate with real numbers and a real scope. Every price change arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. Every eligible job gets permits pulled and inspections signed. And every job is backed by the written 90-Day Done Right Promise. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Los Angeles since 1998.