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If you live in Parkway, you already know the two forces working against your driveway: Sacramento County’s expansive clay soil and summers that push past 105°F. A paver driveway installation in Parkway typically runs $7,000-$18,000, while a new concrete driveway runs $4,500-$12,000. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and we’ve been quoting, permitting, and pouring driveways on this exact soil long enough to know what holds up and what heaves. Call Tom at (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate, and you’ll get a written line-item quote before any work begins.

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Here’s what most Parkway homeowners don’t hear from out-of-area crews: every driveway and paver permit here runs through Sacramento County’s Building Inspection Division, not the City of Sacramento. That’s a real distinction, and it changes the lead time, the inspection schedule, and the compaction requirements. More on that below. The short version: we quote county rules from the first call, so there’s no red-tag surprise at the first inspection.

Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Parkway’s Preferred Driveway & Pavers Company

Tom Barrett started this company in 1998, and he still answers his own phone. The crew leads are his sons. When you call about a driveway in Parkway, you’re not getting a call center or a sales rep with a tablet full of upsells. You’re getting someone who’s pulled county permits for this exact zip code and knows what the inspector is going to check.

Parkway’s housing stock is mostly 1970s and 1980s ranch-style tract homes. That means original driveways poured before modern base-prep standards, often sitting directly on uncompacted clay. We see the same failure patterns block after block: corner settling where water pooled, cracks radiating from tree roots, pavers sinking at the garage apron. We know these failure modes because we’ve excavated them. Homeowners in Parkway, Florin, and Fruitridge Pocket keep calling us back because we write the scope down, issue change orders before any price moves, and stand behind the finished work with our 90-Day Done Right Promise.

Every crew member who shows up at your Parkway house is background-checked and wears the Barrett & Sons name on their uniform. We pull Sacramento County permits on every eligible job. And if something isn’t right after we finish, one call brings Tom back. That’s the promise, written on the contract, not whispered at the sale.

Our Driveway & Pavers Services in Parkway

We’re the Driveway & Pavers team that actually scopes for Sacramento County’s clay, not a template that works in Folsom or Roseville. Here’s what we handle most often around 95823.

Paver Driveways

Parkway lots are flat. Too often that means drainage gets pitched toward the garage instead of toward the street, and paver edges wash out within a few winters. We lay permeable or traditional paver systems over a compacted aggregate base, and we install geotextile separator fabric between the clay subgrade and the base. That fabric is the difference between a paver driveway that holds its plane for 20 years and one that sinks six inches at the low corner.

Concrete Driveways & Concrete Work

Concrete in Parkway lives or dies by the base. Original 1970s slabs were often poured 3 inches thick, no rebar, no compaction. We remove the old slab, excavate the expansive clay to depth, recompact to 95% density with crushed base, and pour 4-inch reinforced concrete with saw-cut control joints. Sacramento County inspection happens at base, steel, and final pour. We schedule all three so you’re not left with an open excavation waiting on a county inspector who never got the call.

Asphalt Driveways & Resurfacing

For longer driveways or budget-conscious Parkway homeowners, asphalt resurfacing is a legitimate option, but only over a stable base. Asphalt flexes more than concrete, which can actually help on mild soil movement, but it won’t fix a failed subgrade. If your existing asphalt has alligator cracking and the edges are crumbling into the lawn, we’ll assess whether it’s a mill-and-overlay or a full rebuild before we quote you a price.

Driveway Repair & Replacement

Some Parkway driveways can be saved. We replace failed sections, lift and re-level settled slabs where feasible, and repair paver edge restraints before the damage spreads. But if the base has turned to soup after two decades of clay swelling and shrinking, a partial patch is throwing money into the same hole. We’ll tell you straight which situation you have, and we’ll put both options on paper with real numbers.

Trusted Brands We Service in Parkway

When we install pavers in Parkway, we’re working with Belgard and Techo-Bloc product lines, materials you can look up by name and warranty. That matters because Sacramento County’s inspection process doesn’t just check our work; it checks that the materials meet spec for freeze-thaw and load-bearing on expansive soil. We also stock GAF products for the roofing side of our business, but on the paver side of the yard, Belgard and Techo-Bloc are the names we stand behind. If a paver cracks or fades prematurely, we know exactly which distributor to call and what the warranty process looks like. You’re not chasing a mystery brand off a van.

Common Driveway & Pavers Problems We See in Parkway Homes

• Clay-soil heaving. Parkway sits on Sacramento Valley expansive clay. When winter rains soak the soil, it swells. When summer hits 105°F, it shrinks. That cycle moves your driveway, and original 1970s slabs without rebar or compacted base show it first. Concrete cracks and settles within two to three seasons if the subgrade wasn’t done right.
• Drainage pitched toward the garage. Because so much of Parkway is flat and low-lying, particularly near the Cosumnes River corridor at the southern edge of 95823, original grading often directs runoff toward the house instead of the street. That water pools at the garage apron, washes out paver sand, and eventually undermines the slab under the garage itself.
• Paver edge failure. Along the outer edges of paver driveways, the base gets exposed, sand washes out, and the edge rows sink. In Parkway’s flat lots, this is almost always a drainage problem first and a paver problem second. Fixing the edge without fixing the pitch means doing it again in two years.
• Wrong jurisdiction on permits. This one is uniquely Parkway. Out-of-area contractors pull a City of Sacramento permit because that’s what they’re used to. Sacramento County red-tags it at the first inspection. Then the homeowner is stuck with a torn-up driveway, a stop-work order, and a re-permitting delay. We’ve seen it. We quote the county process from day one.

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We Also Serve Cities Near Parkway

While this page is written for Parkway, we regularly work a short loop around it: Florin, Fruitridge Pocket, Laguna, and Elk Grove. The county permitting rules and clay soil conditions are similar, which means our Driveway & Pavers in Parkway pricing and process translate cleanly to the surrounding neighborhoods. If you’re just outside 95823 but still in Sacramento County, call us and we’ll confirm your permit jurisdiction on the first call.

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