Santos Pavers provides professional design, installation, and maintenance of all phases of landscaping, irrigation, lighting, pavers, walls, ponds, waterfalls, fountains, and outdoor fireplaces and kitchens in San Francisco Bay Area.

Santos Pavers is at the forefront of paving stone installation. We enjoy what we do. We are constantly striving for excellence and warranting our work from the ground up. We believe that as people become aware of the superiority of a segmental pavement and that as we continue to require our customer's overwhelming approval of our installations, Santos Pavers will continue to be a dynamic leader in an expanding industry.

We are certified by the Interlocking Concrete Pavers Institute because we have the required knowledge, experience and we follow the strict industry guidelines necessary for installation of a paver’s hardscape.

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We can also provide the following products and services:

• Landscape Design
• Pavers
• Concrete Pavers
• Paving Stones
• Hardscaping
• Driveway Pavers  Patios
• Interlocking Pavers
• Landscaping
• Retaining walls

Beautiful, durable, security and comfortable the interlocking concrete pavers is a pre-cast piece of concrete or brick commonly used in exterior hardscaping applications. Developed in Europe and introduced into the United States in the early 1970s, interlocking concrete paving stones offer an alternative to plain concrete or asphalt.

Installed over a compacted stone sub-base and a leveling bed of sand, concrete paving stones can be used for walkways, patios, pool decks and driveways and airport or loading docks. Pressing the dry concrete-mix into moulds rather than pouring a wetter mix allows for their 8000 psi compressive strength, making concrete paving stones a more durable choice than clay bricks or poured-in-place concrete. Clay pavers have an advantage with resistance to fading from the sun and deterioration from long term exposure to the elements. They also do not require a seal coat to prevent staining, unlike the concrete pavers. Because clay pavers are fired, the pores of the pavers are closed, therefore creating an almost non permeable surface. Their main disadvantage is color spectrum. They are a natural material so colors are limited. Concrete on the other hand has a limitless color spectrum when using white Portland cement and pigments.

Interlocking pavers are available in a wide range of shapes. For instance, a diagonal arrangement of rectangular tiles might create a herringbone pattern. Hexagons fit tightly together.

Instead of connecting the pavers by pouring grout between the joints, as one would with tiles, sand particles are spread over the pavers and tamped down. The sand stabilizes the interlocking pavers, yet allows for some flexibility. In other words, this type of pavement will absorb stress such as small earthquakes, freezes and thaws, and slight ground erosion by shifting each tile slightly. Therefore, they will not crack or buckle like concrete.
Brick paving being laid on a sand base, in south west England

The mere special tools needed for installing interlocking pavers are vibrating compaction machine or "Vibra Plate" and Shear Cutter. The former is used to compact the base material to 90% density minimum and also to set and interlock the pavers into the sand bed. The latter is used to cut the pieces to fit at corners and edges. The sand does not easily wash out with rain or garden hose water and a sealer can be spread on to further lock the sand.

A driveway benefits from a sealer so that oil and tire marks will not stain. The sealer creates an invisible barrier on top of the pavers.

The next generation of pavers is the permeable interlocking concrete pavers where moisture filters through the joints down to a crushed rock base. This allows for ground water recharge and less stress on over taxed storm water systems during high rain conditions. Preparation and base material is not the same for this system as with a non-permeable concrete paver’s installation.

Standard thicknesses are 60mm (for light traffic) and 80mm (heavy traffic). 50mm too is common in some countries like Pakistan (used for footpaths etc).The benefits of pavers over the asphalt and poured concrete are high compressive strengths (7000+psi as per BS and 8000+psi as per ASTM codes), pleasant look, time saving, easy removal and relaying etc.