Pavers Ideal For Paving A Driveway In Adelaide.

If you’re looking for driveway pavers, you’ll discover there are concrete pavers and clay pavers to choose from, with both available in a range of sizes and colours.
This article will look at what I consider the best driveway pavers Adelaide home owners can use to pave their driveway, plus give you some driveway paving design ideas that are suited to take the weight of vehicles.

Before you take a look at driveway pavers, consider what type of traffic your driveway pavers will be subjected to and the size of the paved area.

There are basically 3 types of situations:

Adelaide driveway pavers can be purchased for all 3 of these situations and even a combination of two different situations. The paving design you choose is often different for each type of traffic situation as well.

Driveway Pavers For Everyday Vehicle Traffic.

If the pavers you are considering laying for your driveway or car park area will just be subjected to family sized vehicles that will be moving basically up and down the drive or standing stationary, consider concrete pavers that are at least 50mm thick or you could use clay bricks as your pavers.

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Driveway Pavers For Occasional Heavy Vehicle Traffic.

It is always best to consider the worst case scenario when it comes to choosing pavers for your driveway. Although you may not drive a truck over them yourself, there may be times when you require delivery of furniture, landscaping supplies or other items that need to be delivered to your home; requiring a heavier light commercial vehicle to drive and sit on your driveway pavers.

There are a number of concrete rectangular pavers 60mm thick that come in a wide range of designer colours, as well as stylish clay pavers suitable for light commercial vehicles. Small format square concrete pavers, 240mm by 240mm, are available 60mm thick that again come in a great range of designer colours.

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Driveway Pavers For Very Heavy Vehicle Traffic.

If you want a paver to withstand very heavy vehicle traffic, there are small format square concrete pavers 222mm by 222mm by 80mm thick that have been designed to handle heavy commercial vehicles, and even aircraft. These pavers have a 16 point interlocking shape but you are limited to grey in colour.

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Driveway Paving Design Ideas.

A Herringbone paving pattern is a good driveway design idea because it can withstand more sideways movement that will occur as car wheels are turned. Herringbone with an edge course of a contrasting colour; cemented, looks great with rectangular shaped pavers, or consider a Basket Weave pattern which is also a strong driveway design.

The following pictures show the best paving patterns for driveways.

If you would like to use larger format square pavers, the best driveway paving patterns include 45° Stack Bond and the stronger 45° Stretcher Bond with an edge course cemented to lock all the pavers in place.

Small Format Concrete Pavers

If you’re looking to pave the driveway, small format concrete pavers are worth a look; especially if you’re on a tight budget. Small format concrete pavers for driveways come in 2 thicknesses, depending on what vehicles will be driven on them and 2 shapes; square and rectangular. Apart from being the cheapest paving option, there is another benefit to using concrete pavers when landscaping your home; and that’s there is a complementary range of concrete retaining wall blocks and capping pavers too.
For commercial applications, it’s hard to go past Boral’s 80mm ‘Interpave’ interlocking concrete paver.

Boral® Classicpave® Pavers

Boral’s ‘Classicpave’ pavers are small, rectangular shaped, budget priced concrete pavers with a bevelled edge. It’s not hard to see why 50mm and 60mm ‘Classicpave’ pavers are one of the most popular driveway pavers Adelaide residents select.

Popular paving patterns using Boral Classicpave pavers for driveways include herringbone, basket weave and 45° stretcher bond. Herringbone is a recommended pattern for driveways using small format rectangular pavers due to it’s inter-locking design, ideal for resisting movement from turning wheels.

Boral Classicpave Colours

5 colours are available, to match the theme you are wanting to create for your home.

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Note: For paving driveways, ‘Charcoal’ is by far the most popular colours because it is less likely to show tire marks. It’s common to use a contrasting colour as a border; ‘Almond’ and ‘Heritage Red’ are the two most popular border colours for driveways using ‘Charcoal’ as the main colour.

Boral® Handipave® Pavers

Boral’s ‘Handipave’ pavers are small format, square shaped, budget priced concrete pavers with a beveled edge on all 4 top sides. 60mm ‘Handipave’ pavers are one of the most popular pavers Adelaide residents select to pave their driveway. ‘Charcoal’, is the most popular colour used for driveways, and is often used with ‘Almond’ or ‘Heritage Red’ as a contrasting border colour to match in with the house colour.

Popular paving patterns using Boral Handipave pavers for driveways include 90° stretcher bond and 45° stretcher bond. Stretcher bond is recomended over stack bond to increase the joint strength, minimising paver movement.

Boral Handipave Colours

5 colours are available, to match the theme you are wanting to create for your home.

(‘Click’ on each paver for a closer look)

Note: For paving driveways, Boral Handipave in ‘Charcoal’ is by far the most popular colour because it is less likely to show tire marks. It’s common to use a contrasting colour as a border; ‘Almond’ and ‘Heritage Red’ are the two most popular border colours for driveways using ‘Charcoal’ as the main colour and are often using ‘Classicpave’ pavers.

Boral® Interpave® Pavers

Boral’s ‘Interpave’ pavers are small format, rectangular-zig-zag shaped, budget priced concrete pavers. 80mm ‘Interpave’ pavers are one of the most popular pavers Adelaide councils and businesses select to pave their feature driveway areas and paved streets. 80mm ‘Charcoal’, was used for the street in front of the Grange Hotel as part of the Grange foreshore redevelopment. 80mm ‘Heritage Red’ was used to pave the Semaphore SLSC carpark.

The most popular paving pattern using Boral Interpave pavers is herringbone, to take advantage of the interlocking design of the paver, reducing sideways movement and providing a very strong joint.

Boral Interpave Colours

2 colours are readily available.

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Small Format Clay Pavers

If you’re looking to pave the driveway, and want the look of natural colours, clay pavers could be for you.

Austral® 50mm & 65mm Pavers

Austral’s range of 50mm & 65mm pavers are small format, rectangular shaped, budget priced clay pavers.

The most popular paving pattern using Austral clay pavers is herringbone, to take advantage of the interlocking design, reducing sideways movement with wheels turning.

Austral Clay Paver Colours

13 colours are available to choose from in the 50mm range, 11 in the 65mm range.
(Aniseed and Burnt Umber are not available as 65mm pavers.)

Note: Clay pavers are NOT exact replicas of each other. Part of clay pavers charm is the difference or variation in colour mixture from one paver to the next.
Note Too: The images of the variations for each paver were taken in shade, the paver block samples you view in full Sun will look lighter.

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