This is what Neil, a recent customer asked after he had been overpromised and underdelivered many times before. Neil has a home sitting directly on the scenic intercoastal of South Florida. Although Neil had his ideal home, he had a dilemma. The courtyard was originally constructed with the installation of a very unique Spanish-style clay brick. These beautiful clay bricks were made in South America, cast in a kiln then laid out in a field to dry. During this drying process, a pack of wild dogs were passing through the area and decided to leave their unique stamp of approval, a perfect portrait of paw prints. This was quite a unique trait that both Neil and his wife truly appreciated. They were happy to have these little pieces of art as part of their home.
Unfortunately, year after year of being sealed incorrectly and Florida’s rough elements, these pavers would always default back to a milky color. Neil and his wife were left with the Dilemma of starting the courtyard from scratch or keeping the original integrity with one last chance at restoration.
The Last
Neil was discussing these options with an architect friend who just recently had some incredible work done by Perfect Paver. Neil decided as the last hope to give them a call. Contacting the team at Perfect Paver, Neil was put in touch with Tom, one of the knowledgeable members of the sales team. Tom came out to the property to see firsthand what this job would entail. Neil explained the history and how he and his wife would ideally love to restore the natural beauty and integrity of the pavers. During their initial meeting, Neil was taken aback by the knowledge, understanding, and level of detail Tom had of the paver restoration process. After this meeting, Neil immediately knew this was the perfect company for the job and he was confident the team would accomplish the goal that was so important to himself, his wife, and his family.
This was of course a decision he did not take lightly after being overpromised and under-delivered many times before. Neil used this information and made the educated choice to restore this courtyard for himself and his wife. She had an attachment to these pavers and cherished the history and beauty. And as we all seem to know, happy wife, happy life!
The decision had been made! Neil was scheduled and the team at Perfect Paver came out to start the job. Two technicians, Ethan and Chaz were sent out to do the job and as Neil puts it, the whole situation went better than he ever anticipated. Ethan and Chaz arrived on time and were exceptional during the four days on the job. Neil is a stickler for details, a self-confessed perfectionist in every aspect of his life. He was concerned about some of the sensitive corners of his property and was thrilled when Ethan and Chaz acknowledged his concerns. They kept the area worked on clean and tidy every evening when they finished for the day. Neil truly could not have been happier with the level of hard work, respect, detail, punctuality, and knowledge these two hard workers demonstrated. They treated his property as though it was their own and this did not go unnoticed by Neil or his wife.
This project was a perfect example of impeccable work from everyone involved. From the initial phone call to the final reveal, Neil and his wife were pleased and had the peace of mind knowing they had made the right decision. They have never seen the pavers look as vibrant as they do now and are thrilled at being able to keep their home in its original beauty. In Neil’s words, this was a project that was under promised and over delivered and he could not be happier.
After going through a year and a half with previous contractor Debbie, from Liberty Township, Ohio, realized that she needed to find someone that would do the job right. So she began to do some research and found us. We’re so glad that we were able to find each other and make her pavers beautiful again!
As many of you know, it’s been weighing on our hearts that we could do more to give back to the communities we serve and do so in a way that would rally the team together.
Each month we will share a story about a member of our team and the charity they’re passionate about. During that entire month, each time our team works together to create a raving fan and that fan lets us know, Perfect Paver Co will make a $50 donation to that team members charity.
In the month of July, we’re sharing Alyssa Bess’ story of how being a Type 1 Diabetic has impacted her life and what the charity she chose, JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation,) does to help people just like her!
This Memorial Day, The Perfect Paver Co. would like to honor the men and women in the communities we serve and across the United States who have given their lives fighting for our freedom.
We are proud to be part of communities that make investments in honoring our fallen, and we want to do our part to preserve these investments.
This is more than a long weekend; this is an opportunity to celebrate our freedom and to pay our respects.
From the entire Perfect Paver Co. Team, have a safe, healthy and relaxing Memorial Day. And a special Thank You to Centerville City Schools.
It’s been weighing on our hearts that we could do more to give back to the communities we serve and do so in a way that would rally our team together.
Some brands that we look up to have a charity that they contribute back to, and we think that’s really awesome.
For us, we recognized that each person on our team has a unique story and a charity or cause that has impacted their life, so choosing just one wouldn’t work.
We’re so excited to share with you how our team has come up with a way to learn more about each other and what we’re each passionate about and work together to create raving fans all while giving back to the community for doing so.
Each month we will share a story about a member of our team and the charity they’re passionate about. During that entire month, each time our team works together to create a raving fan and that fan lets us know, Perfect Paver Co will make a $50 donation to that team members charity.
In the month of May, we’re sharing Scott Lammers’ story of how the Ronald McDonald House of Cincinnati has impacted his life.
When Scott’s wife became pregnant, they figured out through an ultrasound that their son, Jack, would be born with a heart defect. They were shocked and had to figure out how to move forward with this information.
So, they decided to take advantage of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital network and were able to be admitted to the Ronald McDonald House of Cincinnati. Instead of having to drive two hours everyday, back and forth while Jack was going to be in the hospital, they were able to stay at the Ronald McDonald House.
They had all sorts of activities there for them to take part in, food, and a room to stay in, all free of charge while they were going through this difficult time. Jack had to have surgery on his heart valves, due to blood not circulating enough to his lungs.
Fortunately, everything was successful and Jack is now like any other 2 year old – happy and full of energy.
Without organizations like the Ronald McDonald House, things like this wouldn’t be possible. We are so excited to be able to give back to the causes and charities that have made an impact on our team members, because they are who make Perfect Paver Co so great.
Ronald McDonald House Donation Update – Halfway Point
Ronald McDonald House – Conclusion
It’s finally here!!!
During the entire month of May, each time our team worked together to create a raving fan and that fan let us know, Perfect Paver Co made a $50 donation to our team member, Scott Lammers’ charity of choice, the Ronald McDonald House.
Well, May came to a close and we gained 48 new raving fans, for a grand total of $2,400 to be donated on behalf of Scott and his son, Jack!
We couldn’t be happier to be able to give back to our team members and to the community.
To our customers, please know that your feedback can make a world of difference.
Check out Scott coming back to the Ronald McDonald House and being able to donate the check himself!
Keep an eye out for the next team member we choose, as part of our We Care Initiative!
Hi, I’m Mark with the Perfect Paver Company and I came out to Jupiter, Florida today to show
you the perfect example of why it’s so important to seal your pavers.
Today, we’re at an outdoor mall area and if you’re from the Jupiter area, you probably know exactly where I’m at. So what I want to show you is, throughout the outdoor area you have these overhangs and the overhangs prevent water from hitting the pavers underneath of them. Obviously outside of the overhangs, the water is able to directly hit the pavers.
So, what’s happening is because they don’t have gutters or downspouts, the water is actually coming off of the overhang and directly hitting the pavers, and it’s expediting and magnifying the impact that rain has on pavers and so protecting your pavers from rain is the number one important reason why you want to seal your pavers.
So, here’s something else; the pavers directly underneath the overhang are exposed to a lot of high volume water and it’s deteriorating the surface of the paver. You’re starting to see a lot of aggregate exposed, which isn’t good.
If you come up over here underneath of the bench area and overhang you don’t see any of the exposed aggregate, which is the white rock coming through. It’s still has all of its original surface intact.
So, the number one reason why you seal your pavers is to prevent rain deterioration, rain damage because it’s inevitable, it will happen on concrete pavers and so I’ll walk around and show you just some places where you can see how the rain is deteriorating the surface of concrete pavers.
So here’s a section where you have these overhangs and if you look directly beneath them where the water hits the paver, it’s a clean line where that water is coming off and it’s deteriorating the surface.
Pavers on my left, not exposing rain, they look beautiful. Pavers on my right, rain makes them look terrible.
Hey come closer, something else I noticed is it’s not just pavers that are affected by rain. Look at this bench exposed to rain – destroyed. It looks much better protected from the rain,
Obviously, the sun plays a huge role as well. You want to protect the Pavers from the sun. The UV rays really go after the color and attacks those, starts drying those out, dulling those out.
Most importantly, if you coat your pavers and protect them from the rain, they will last significantly longer and look significantly better for longer. Mark with Perfect Paver Company, that’s why you should seal your pavers.
Hi, Mark, with the Perfect Paver Company here to answer another frequently asked question. Today’s question is, “Will sealing my pavers, make them look brand new again?”
So, unfortunately in most cases, the answer is no, unless of course your pavers are brand new. So what I want to try to do today is educate you on what you can expect from sealing your pavers. And I want to start by giving you a little education on how a paver is made and what happens as it weathers and how that affects the appearance that you get when you seal your pavers.
How A Paver Is Made
So, the first thing I want to do is explain to you how a paver is made. So when they make a concrete paver, it’s a mixture of aggregates, medium-sized small size, sand, and Portland cement. The Portland cement is the powder. That’s the gray stuff that you see mixed in around all of the rocks. The Portland, cement, and the sand mixed together is where the color lives. So when they made this paver, they mixed all of those ingredients, the sand, the small rocks, and the Portland cement together. Then they mixed it with a color additive; the color additive lives in that Portland cement.
So if you look at the top of a weathered paver, you’ll see that you start to see some of those rocks, the Portland cement has weathered away. And as I mentioned before, all of the color lives in the Portland cement, you can now see the natural color of the rocks. So the more your paver weathers, the more rocks are exposed and the less color containing product is still left in the paver.
Older Paver
So here, I’ve got this paver that’s been sealed on this side, not sealed on this side, and you can see there’s definitely some color enhancement, but it doesn’t look as good as it could look because of the aggregate being exposed in the paver.
The way that a paver weathers is actually by rain. So as rain continues to hit the surface of the paver, it will start to deteriorate the finer material or the Portland cement from the surface of the paver and start to expose those little aggregate pieces. You can actually see this, if you look at your pavers that are maybe under the overhang or under a roof at your front door and compare those to the pavers that are further out in your yard or your driveway.
You’ll notice that you’ll see more exposed aggregate to the pavers that are exposed to rain versus the pavers that aren’t.
Newer Paver
So if you look at a newer paver, you will see that you don’t see any of the exposed aggregate. You’ll notice the before, it’s more of a muted out a look, and then it’s enhanced pretty significantly by being sealed because there’s more of the pigment, more of the Portland cement that contains the pigment left in the surface of the paver. Therefore, you’re going to get more enhancement when we seal it.
Comparison
So side by side, they both been sealed. And as you can, you’re getting more enhancement from the new paver than you would from the older paver, primarily because of the pigment.
Color of Your Paver
So I talked about how the age and how a paver is weathered plays a role and the results that you get from sealing your pavers. The other thing that I want to talk about is the actual color of your paver. So there are a few different color ranges or color options when you get pavers. You can have more vibrant colors like reds, oranges, greens, blues, and you can have more earth-tone color pavers, like tans, grays, and those types of colors.
Typically, when a manufacturer makes a paver in an earth tone color, they’re trying to make it look like nature. So the color isn’t going to be as enhanced, it’s not going to be as vibrant, it’s going to be a little muted out and feel more natural and organic. When you go with reds, oranges, blues, and greens, it’s intention is to be vibrant.
So when you seal a paver that has that vibrant style color, like a red, green, blue, orange, you’re going to get a lot more enhancement, but still needing to factor in the age of the paper because you can see a difference. This is a red paver here on the right and a natural tone paver on the left. You’re getting more enhancement here on the left, but this is a brand new paver. This red one is probably a 20 year old paver.
So color plays a big role as well. Reds, blues, green, oranges; they’re going to get more color enhancement, while earth-tone colors like tans and grays; you’re going to have less color enhancement from those. But that should be expected because you’re hoping for those colors to continue to be more earth tone, natural, organic looking.
How Well Have Your Pavers Been Maintained Throughout Their Life
The third factor in determining how well your papers are going to react to being sealed is how well they’ve been maintained throughout their life.
If it’s an older paver, but it’s always been regularly sealed, then it’s more likely to have less exposed aggregate because the sealer, if it’s kept on a paver will help prevent that deterioration from happening.
Sometimes we get the most difference between the before and after on pavers that have been previously sealed and most importantly pavers that have been previously sealed incorrectly. So when a paver has been sealed incorrectly, the sealer will eventually turn a milky white and hide all of the color like the picture below.
It will appear as if all of the color in the paver has faded away. However, when we come in and strip all of that sealer away, then you get to see what you actually have left in terms of color and that paver and then we reseal it and all of that color comes back to life.
So when you’re looking at a before and after of a job that was sealed previously incorrectly, and it had been sealed a lot, or it’s a newer paver, like the example below, and then it’s been stripped and resealed correctly, it looks very dramatic in the before and after, but we didn’t do anything to that paver other than strip it and reseal it correctly.
So, that’s why you’re seeing the most dramatic difference in those pictures because of the fact that the sealer had turned white and failed, and once that’s removed and sealed correctly, you get a lot of pop or a of enhancement if the paver that we stripped does, in fact look good under the sealer or it’s been well maintained.
So that hopefully gives you a quick rundown on what you can expect by sealing your pavers. Please comment below with any questions that you might like me to answer in my next frequently asked question video.
Hi, I’m mark with the Perfect Paver Company, back with this week’s frequently asked question. Why should you seal your travertine pavers?
What’s Happening?
Trust me you’re not alone if you have travertine pavers, you had them installed, they were beautiful and just a few months after, you see mold, dirt, and maybe even vegetation growing up everywhere. It’s so frustrating because you made the investment in your travertine pavers because it was supposed to look better and now it’s actually making your pool deck or your outdoor space not look as good. So the question all the time that we get is, “why should I seal my travertine pavers?” and that’s a great question.
First Reason
There’s a couple of reasons, the first reason that we suggest you seal your travertine pavers is because travertine is extremely porous. There are a lot of holes, capillaries pores, and those types of things in the travertine and those holes can fill up with moisture and water and stay damp, creating the perfect conditions for things like mold and algae to not only grow and germinate, but thrive and it kind of takes over. You have this beautiful pool deck made of travertine and the next thing you know, you have all this black mold and it’s just dingy and dull.
So, by sealing travertine with the proper sealer, a nice penetrating version of sealer, it’s going to minimize water’s ability to soak into that stone and therefore the stone is going to stay dry under the sealer and it’s gonna make it harder for things like mold, algae, and mildew and those types of things to grow.
Now, just sealing it by itself won’t completely eliminate the problem, but the other cool thing that it’s going to do is it’s gonna make it easier for you to also keep it clean, get that organic material off the surface of the stone. By getting that organic material off, those microscopic spores of mold and algae that’s trying to germinate won’t have any food to be able to derive.
Second Reason
So, the other reason why we suggest sealing your travertine pavers, especially in a Florida climate, is if you’re around a pool deck that’s a salt water pool. If you’re near the water, there’s a lot of salt in the air and travertine is actually a form of limestone. Limestone is very sensitive to salt.
What We Do To Solve The Problem
So we utilize a sealer that acts as a salt barrier that prevents salts ability to deteriorate the stone or deteriorate that limestone. It will actually eat it if it’s left unprotected, so seal your travertine because it makes it easier to maintain it, it can make it look better depending on which style of sealer that you go with, and it’ll help protect it against deterioration from salt.
Hope that answers all your questions about why you should seal travertine pavers and if you would, leave me a comment below and let me know what you’d like me to answer in next week’s frequently asked question.
Thanks again, Mark with Perfect Paver Company. Hope you have a great day.
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