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Ameristar Driveway & Pavers: The Fort Myers Owner’s Guide

If a paver on your Ameristar driveway has cracked, shifted, or sunk, we stock the replacements and can usually have it matched and set within a single visit. Installed paver repair or replacement in Fort Myers typically runs $350-$2,800 depending on how many units are affected and whether the base underneath needs to be recompacted. Most homeowners discover the problem after a heavy summer downpour, when a low spot turns into a puddle that wasn’t there last season, or when a crack that started as a hairline finally catches a tire at the wrong angle.

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Groundwork Construction Co. of Fort Myers is an independent contractor, not an Ameristar dealer, but we work with their full hardscape catalog regularly and keep the most common Fort Myers paver profiles on our trucks. If your specific unit isn’t on board, we can source it same-week and you won’t pay a dime until the paver is in our hand and the price is confirmed.

Which Ameristar Models This Applies To

Ameristar’s residential paver line breaks into three series we see across Lee County: the Holland Stone collection (rectangular, interlocking, the workhorse of most Fort Myers driveways), the Tumbled Paver series (softer edges, older-Florida look, common in Cape Coral and McGregor Boulevard homes), and the Plank Paver line (longer format, modern aesthetic, growing fast in new construction off Treeline Avenue). Identifying yours starts with a measurement. A standard Holland Stone runs 4″ x 8″ x 2⅜” thick. Planks are typically 6″ x 12″ or 8″ x 16″. Thickness matters for load: a 2⅜” paver handles passenger vehicles fine, but if you park a heavy pickup or boat trailer, we recommend stepping to 3⅛” units for the wheel paths.

The OEM versus aftermarket question for Ameristar is simpler than it sounds. Ameristar color-matches their batches tightly, which means a “Chestnut” Holland Stone from 2018 and a new “Chestnut” from the current production run are close enough that nobody will spot the difference, but a generic big-box “tan” won’t match. We order directly from Ameristar distribution for color-critical repairs. For a full tear-out and reinstall, we also offer Belgard equivalents that can save you 10-15% without sacrificing the interlock geometry. Derek Hollenbeck has put both brands through enough Fort Myers summers to know they hold up the same, provided the base was built right in the first place.

Signs Your Ameristar Driveway & Pavers Are Failing

• Dished or sunken pavers near the garage approach. This almost always traces back to base washout. Fort Myers gets 55-plus inches of rain a year, and if the original install skimped on the crushed concrete base (anything under 6″ compacted is asking for trouble here), water erodes the support from underneath and the pavers settle into a bowl.
• Cracks running through multiple pavers in a straight line. That’s not a paver problem, it’s a base crack telegraphing upward. It means the ground shifted underneath, likely from a plumbing leak, tree root, or poorly compacted fill. Swapping the cracked pavers without fixing what’s underneath guarantees you’ll be calling again in 18 months.
• Edge pavers spalling or crumbling along the driveway border. Ameristar pavers use a no-slump concrete that stands up to Florida sun well, but the edge restraints are usually plastic or aluminum. When the restraint fails, the outermost pavers take tire pressure without lateral support and start flaking apart at the corners.
• White, chalky haze spreading across the surface. Efflorescence. Common in Fort Myers because our high humidity draws soluble salts out of the concrete and deposits them on the surface. It’s cosmetic, not structural, and a proper sealing after a deep clean stops it for several years.
• Joint sand constantly washing out after every rain. Polymeric sand should harden into a flexible, water-resistant joint. If it’s washing out, either the wrong sand was used during install, the pavers were wet when it was applied, or the slope isn’t directing water to the edges properly and it’s pooling and cutting channels through the joints.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Fort Myers, a spot repair on a handful of Ameristar pavers with base recompaction lands between $350 and $900. A full driveway replacement, including tear-out, new 6″-8″ compacted base, Ameristar pavers, polymeric sand, and edge restraints, runs $7,000-$18,000 for a typical two-car driveway. The spread depends on square footage, paver thickness, and whether we need to regrade for drainage. Every quote from us is a fixed, line-item price. You’ll know the cost for the pavers, the base material, the labor, and the disposal before a single shovel hits the ground.

We include a workmanship warranty on every paver job we do in Fort Myers, backed by our 730-Day Done Right Promise. If the pavers shift or the sand washes out because of our install, we fix it. Straightforward, no fine print.

DIY or Call Us?

You can absolutely pop out a single cracked paver and drop a new one in, if the base underneath is still solid and the color is a close match. We’ll even sell you the paver at our cost if you want to handle it yourself. The line where DIY stops making sense is when the base has failed. Compacting crushed concrete to the right density requires a plate compactor, not a hand tamper, and getting the slope right so water drains off instead of toward your foundation takes a laser level and experience reading Fort Myers’ flat terrain. Skip those steps and you’ll have the same problem again by next hurricane season.

For anything beyond a straightforward paver swap, call us at (844) 638-7249. We’ll come out, assess the base, and give you a written estimate for exactly what needs to happen. No charge for the visit, no pressure to book.

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