Paver Repair & Re-Sanding in St. Clair Township

The township has two settings. On the east side, platted neighborhoods such as River Ridge and the streets around St. Clair Golf Club sit near River Rd; across the interior, homes stand on large Rural-zoned lots along interior roads such as Yankee Rd and S. Bartlett Rd. The 1990s were the biggest building decade, with about 29% of the housing, so a patio laid when one of those houses was new has now seen about thirty winters. In either setting, a border facing open ground depends on a restraint, and CMHA's edge restraint guide calls for one along the perimeter and wherever pavers meet another material.

For homes, CMHA accepts precast concrete or cut stone, plastic edging made for pavers, aluminum, steel on rigid bases, and poured concrete curbs. It rules out flat landscape bed edging, soil backfill and any restraint set on top of the bedding sand, and does not recommend timber, which warps and rots. Spikes belong in the compacted base, never in soil, and the base has to run past the restraint by at least its own thickness. CMHA describes a troweled concrete edge only for areas where the ground does not freeze, so it is not one to count on through a Michigan winter.

Base depth matters too. CMHA's construction guide calls for at least 4 inches of base under patios and walks and 6 under driveways on well-drained soil, more in cold climates or wet soil, so a section built as a walk and later parked on can sink under the wheels. CMHA also lists a saturated base among the causes of a dip, a risk worth checking on lots near the Pine River, where FEMA maps floodplain, and beside the township's wooded wetlands.