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IKO Driveway & Pavers: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide

If you’re looking at a cracked, sunken, or crumbling IKO paver or driveway surface in Fort Lauderdale, we stock and install IKO-compatible driveway and paver systems with complete paver driveway installations typically running $7,000–$18,000 depending on square footage, base prep, and paver style. Most homeowners discover the problem after a rainy season, when a paver that looked fine in March is suddenly sitting a half-inch low, or when a delivery truck leaves a web of cracks across what used to be a smooth apron. This guide covers how to confirm what you have, what fails first in South Florida, and what a straight replacement actually costs.

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Which IKO Models This Applies To

IKO’s paving lineup in the U.S. market centers on interlocking concrete pavers and paver slabs rather than a single “driveway kit,” so the critical compatibility question isn’t usually model number matching—it’s thickness, color lot, and joint spacing. For residential driveways, IKO-compatible pavers are typically 60mm (about 2 3/8 inches) or 80mm (about 3 1/8 inches) thick, and mixing those two thicknesses on one driveway creates a surface that won’t stay level. Check the side of a loose paver; most IKO-branded pavers carry a molded code near the bottom edge that identifies the production run. If you can’t find it, measure the paver with a ruler—that 20mm difference tells you almost everything about what was originally installed. We also stock aftermarket equivalents from Belgard and Unilock that match IKO color families closely enough for repair sections, and for full replacements we’re happy to quote either the genuine article or an equivalent paver with the same load rating. Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale is an independent service provider, not affiliated with IKO, and we don’t pretend otherwise.

Signs Your IKO Driveway & Pavers Are Failing

• Paver settlement or sinking after rain. In Fort Lauderdale, this almost always means the sand bedding layer or the crushed-stone base beneath it has washed out or compressed. Pavers themselves rarely fail; the base they sit on does. You’ll see a low spot form near a downspout or along a driveway edge first.
• Hairline cracks spreading across multiple pavers. This points to a concrete paver slab taking more load than the sub-base can carry, often after a heavy truck or repeated hot-season expansion. Once a crack runs through three or four pavers in a line, that section of driveway has lost its interlock.
• Paver edges chipping or spalling at the surface. South Florida’s salt air plus intense UV will eventually eat at the top layer of a paver, especially near the coast or where a pool’s splash-out lands daily. If the surface is flaking like a biscuit, sealing won’t stop it—the cap layer is already compromised.
• Joint sand disappearing between pavers. If you sweep sand into the joints and it’s gone after two rainstorms, the pavers have started moving laterally. In our climate, that’s usually an early warning that the edge restraint has failed somewhere along the perimeter. Once edge restraint fails, the whole field can drift.
• Weeds or ants pushing up through the joints. Weeds don’t grow through a paver, they grow through whatever’s in the joint, and once enough organic matter has replaced the sand, the joints lose their locking function. Ants are worse, they can hollow out bedding sand faster than you’d believe and leave a paver floating over an empty pocket.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For a full driveway in Fort Lauderdale, IKO-compatible paver driveway installation runs $7,000–$18,000, with most standard two-car driveways landing between $9,000 and $14,000. The biggest cost drivers are square footage, paver thickness (80mm for anything that’ll see truck traffic), and how much of the old base has to be removed and replaced. A paver patio runs $3,500–$11,000. Every one of our quotes includes demolition and haul-off of the failed surface, regrading and compaction of the base to Fort Lauderdale soil conditions (much of this area sits on sandy soil with a high water table, so base depth matters more than people expect), the pavers themselves, polymeric sand in the joints, and a written scope with a fixed number. You get our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if the driveway settles, shifts, or fails inside the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge, no debate. Written price before we start, written guarantee when we finish—that’s The Kingswell Way and it has been since 2004.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely inspect a failing driveway yourself: take photos after the next heavy rain, check whether water pools in the low spots, and measure any pavers that have shifted so you know their thickness. What you shouldn’t do is start pulling up pavers and recompacting a base by hand—without a plate compactor and a properly thickened edge restraint, a weekend rebuild will fail again within a year, and in Fort Lauderdale’s summer rains, sometimes within a month. If the problem is localized, say one sunken paver or a cracked corner, a spot repair may be all you need, and that’s a smaller job than you’re picturing. If the base has failed, only a full removal and recompaction will hold. Tell me what you need, I’ll tell you what it costs—then we’ll get it done. Call (754) 551-2922 and we’ll schedule a free estimate, walk the driveway with you, and give you a written number before anything else happens.