Paver Repair & Re-Sanding in South Lyon

South Lyon is a century-old rail town ringed by subdivisions built on former farmland since the 2000s, much of it clay-influenced ground. A paver drive is typically built on about an inch of bedding sand over a compacted aggregate base, and the Concrete Masonry and Hardscapes Association (CMHA) calls for at least 6 inches of that base under a driveway, more in cold or wet soils.

A drive that sinks in two stripes where the tires roll is what CMHA calls rutting: the subgrade or base settling under repeated wheel loads. CMHA ties low areas to settlement, often of a base that wasn't compacted enough, and also to a base or soil that stays saturated, bedding sand laid too thick, or bedding sand that washed out. Major rutting often means the base is too thin or not stiff enough for the load.

Clay adds one wrinkle. CMHA recommends drain pipe under vehicle areas on clay or other slow-draining soils, and you can't tell from the surface whether a drive has one. If a rut keeps holding water, drainage may be part of the cause, and drainage work is outside what we do. Near downtown Lafayette St, under the old core's heavy canopy, a walk lifted by a root is another matter: we do no root work, and Iowa State Extension warns that cutting major roots can kill a tree. Paver repair fixes what moved; a sound surface that only looks tired belongs to paver restoration.