Tom Stuart Causeway Approaches between Seminole and Madeira Beach

The Tom Stuart Causeway — 150th Avenue — is the mainland-to-Madeira Beach crossing that is not Johns Pass and not the Pinellas Bayway. Houses and small commercial lots on both approaches take more wind and salt than a Seminole interior street, and they give you less room to stage a crew than a Tierra Verde causeway lot.

Madeira Beach, Seminole, and Johns Pass already have their own pages. This one is the approach itself: the last mainland blocks and the first island blocks where the soil and the access change in a few hundred feet.

Coastal approach, not a patio brochure

• Fill and sugar sand under many of these yards. Geotextile and a thick crushed-stone section are not optional.

• Salt air eats cheap edge restraint and cheap joint sand. We spec accordingly.

• Trailer and beach-gear traffic on weekends. The field has to take a turning axle, not just a sedan.

How we run the job

We pick a weather window, keep pallets on the lot, and do not park a dumpster on the causeway shoulder. Edge restraint is pinned into the base. Joints get a sand that can take wash-down without turning into a dust film on day two. If the lot sits in a flood or wave-action discussion, we say so in the quote instead of promising a patio that will float.

Call 727-490-9798. Send the approach photo and whether you are on the Seminole side or the Madeira side — the staging plan is not the same.