116th Street North St. Pete driveway aprons

116th Street North sits in the far-west St. Petersburg grid, where ranch lots meet sandy fill and older concrete aprons that have cracked at the sidewalk joint. PaverForge Hardscapes replaces those aprons with pavers set on a compacted base, not a thin overlay on broken slab.

What fails on these aprons

Most 116th Street North aprons were poured decades ago against a city sidewalk. Summer storms pond at the gutter, then run back toward the garage. The slab settles, the expansion joint opens, and shell or asphalt patches telegraph through. A paver apron lets us rebuild the slope so water leaves the driveway instead of sitting at the garage door.

How we build it

• Saw-cut and remove the failed concrete apron without damaging the sidewalk edge.

• Excavate to a stable sandy subgrade and compact a crushed-concrete base.

• Set edge restraint and a soldier course so tires do not kick the field pavers.

• Pitch the surface toward the street gutter, not back to the garage.

• Lock joints with polymeric sand rated for coastal rain.

We match the apron to an existing driveway when the field pavers are still sound, or rebuild both when the driveway has the same washout. Call PaverForge at (727) 490-9798 for a look at a 116th Street North apron in St. Petersburg.