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IKO Driveway & Pavers: The Orlando Owner’s Guide

We install and replace IKO-compatible paver driveways and walkways throughout Orlando, with most paver driveway installations running $7,000 – $18,000 depending on square footage, base depth, and paver pattern. The typical call we get starts the same way: a homeowner notices a paver sinking near the garage apron, or a section of the driveway holding water after an afternoon thunderstorm. Sometimes it’s efflorescence, that chalky white film Orlando’s humidity loves to pull out of concrete pavers, and sometimes it’s a cracked paver that snapped along an edge where the sand joint washed out. Penhallow Remodeling Orlando is an independent contractor and not affiliated with IKO, but we work with their paver lines regularly and know what fails on them here in Central Florida.

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Which IKO Models This Applies To

IKO’s paver lineup in Florida centers on interlocking concrete pavers sold through Canaplus and Cambridge-style profiles, with the most common local installs being the 60mm and 80mm thickness lines for residential driveways. The 60mm pavers are rated for pedestrian traffic and light vehicle use on a properly compacted base, while the 80mm units are what we recommend for any driveway that will see a pickup truck, SUV, or service van on a daily basis. Here’s the compatibility gotcha every Orlando homeowner should know: you cannot mix 60mm and 80mm pavers in the same field. The height difference creates lippage, and lippage is what trips a delivery driver and cracks paver edges. If you have an older IKO install and want to match a repair, flip over a loose paver and look for the mold stamp on the back, then measure the thickness in millimeters. That stamp plus the measurement tells us exactly what to order. On the OEM versus aftermarket question: IKO pavers are concrete units, so an aftermarket equivalent from a reputable Florida supplier will often match color and dimension within tolerance, but for a repair in the middle of a visible field we always price the OEM match first. A one-shade-off paver in the middle of your driveway is the kind of thing you notice every single day for ten years.

Signs Your IKO Driveway & Pavers Is Failing

• Sunken or settling pavers near the driveway edges. Orlando’s sandy subsoil shifts after heavy rain, and if the original install skimped on the crushed concrete base, the edges go first. We see this in College Park on 1950s homes where the original driveway was laid directly on native soil.
• Sand washing out of the joints after every storm. Florida’s afternoon downpours do not gently rinse a paver driveway; they blast it. When joint sand keeps disappearing, the pavers start moving against one another, which leads to chipped edges and eventually loose units.
• Efflorescence that keeps coming back. The chalky white deposit on IKO concrete pavers is salt migrating up through the paver as moisture evaporates. Sealing slows it, but if the paver bed underneath holds water because of poor drainage, the efflorescence returns within months no matter what you put on top.
• Cracked or spalled paver surfaces. A hairline crack from a dropped tool is cosmetic. A corner that has spalled off, or a crack running through the full thickness, means the paver is breaking under point loads it was never meant to handle alone, usually because the base settled underneath it.
• Water pooling in low spots that did not pool before. A paver driveway should pitch away from the house at about one to two percent. When a low spot forms, water sits, pavers shift, and the low spot gets worse. This is a base failure, not a paver failure, and no amount of re-sanding will fix it.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For a full paver driveway replacement in Orlando, expect to pay between $7,000 and $18,000 installed. A typical two-car driveway of about 600 square feet using IKO 80mm pavers lands in the $10,000 – $14,000 range. What moves the number: square footage, the depth of the existing base (if we can salvage it, you save; if we are hauling out six inches of failed sand base, that is labor and disposal), the paver pattern, and whether we are doing a simple field or adding soldier-course borders and inlays. Every Penhallow Remodeling job includes the written price before any work starts, the full base excavation and compaction, the paver install, joint sand, and our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If a paver settles or a joint fails inside that first year, we come back and make it right at no charge. When we replace a driveway, we also check the pitch and the drainage tie-ins so the new pavers are not sitting in the same conditions that killed the old ones. Our paver driveway work carries the Kingswell standard: the number on day one is the number on the invoice, no change orders, no surprises.

DIY or Call Us?

An Orlando homeowner can safely handle a few maintenance items on an IKO paver driveway without picking up a phone. Re-sanding joints, pulling a single loose paver to reset it in fresh sand, and applying a penetrating sealer are all reasonable weekend jobs if you are patient and the weather holds. What you should not tackle alone is any repair where more than a handful of pavers are moving, any repair where you are seeing sand wash out repeatedly, or any section where you suspect the base underneath has failed. Digging out a failed base by hand in Orlando’s heat, then compacting a new one properly, requires a plate compactor and a hard understanding of lift depth. We get it done in one to three days for most full driveway replacements, and Trevor Nash will tell you the same thing he tells every homeowner: give you the number first, then pick up the tool. If you are on the fence about whether your driveway needs a full replacement or a targeted repair, call (850) 427-6454 and we will come look at it for free.