Interlocking Repair & Re-Levelling · Mississauga & The GTA

Localized re-levelling of a settled area typically runs $400–$1,500 per area, depending on size and what we find underneath. Swapping chipped or stained individual pavers runs $400–$1,200. A full maintenance visit — deep clean, complete polymeric re-sand, and reseal — runs $1,500–$3,000 for a typical 700 sq ft driveway. Where a larger section needs to be excavated, re-based, and relaid from scratch, pricing works like a new install at $25–$55 per square foot, with material costs saved by reusing your pavers. We diagnose on-site and quote a fixed, itemized price.

In most cases, yes — and that's the entire point of interlocking. The pavers themselves almost never fail; the base under them does. We lift the affected pavers, stack them aside, rebuild and compact the granular base, correct the grade, and relay the same stones. Done properly, the repaired area is structurally better than the day it was first installed, because the cause of the settlement gets fixed, not just the symptom.

Water, almost every time. Joint sand washes out, water gets below the surface, and Ontario's freeze-thaw cycles pump the bedding layer out from under the pavers. The usual suspects: a downspout discharging onto the surface, settlement over a utility trench, a base that was under-built on day one, or edge restraint that let the field spread. Diagnosis matters — re-levelling a section without fixing the water problem that caused it is a repair you'll be buying twice.

Yes — because they're your pavers. A proper repair reuses the existing stones, so there's no colour-match problem at all. Where a damaged paver needs replacing and the product line is discontinued, we swap stones from a hidden area (along the garage, under the gate line) into the visible repair and put the new units where nobody looks. It's an old installer's trick, and it works.

Most localized re-levels are a one-day job: lift, re-base, compact, relay, re-sand. Larger sections or repairs involving drainage correction run 2–3 days. A full re-sand and reseal visit is typically done in a day, weather permitting — polymeric sand and sealer both need dry conditions to cure properly, so we schedule around the forecast.

If the problems are localized — a settled strip, a heaved border, washed-out joints — repair wins easily, and a proper restoration can extend the surface's life by 15–20 years. If the base is failing across the whole surface, or the pavers themselves are spalling and crumbling from decades of salt, relaying sections piecemeal becomes false economy and we'll tell you so. That triage is the first thing our site visit settles, and we quote whichever answer is honestly cheaper for you over ten years, not whichever is bigger for us.

Spring, ideally. Winter's frost does its damage by April, so settlement and heaving are fully visible — and fixing them early means the surface isn't pumping water through the damaged area all season. That said, any frost-free month works: we repair from spring thaw through late fall, as long as temperatures allow the base to compact and the polymeric sand to cure.

All the time — a large share of our repair work is correcting other installers' bases. It doesn't matter who laid the stones or how long ago; what matters is what's underneath them. We'll tell you plainly what we find when we open the surface, what caused the failure, and what it takes to make sure the repair doesn't repeat it.