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Tick what is actually wrong and this prices the fix from the symptoms, then puts it side by side with lifting and relaying the area, and with replacing the surface outright. Nothing is estimated until you tick something.
Almost every paver failure is a base failure wearing a paver costume. Pavers do not sink; the material under them moves, and it moves because it was never compacted properly, because water is washing the fines out of it, or because something is loading it that it was not built for. That is why this calculator asks what you can see and what you think caused it, and why a diagnosis visit is priced in whenever something is moving — the cause decides whether the repair holds for twenty years or two.
Settling and rocking mean the base. Ponding means grade or drainage. Lifting usually means roots. Joint loss and weeds mean the sand is gone and the interlock with it. Each of those is a different fix at a different price, which is why the estimate here is built from what is wrong rather than from square footage alone.
If you have spares from the original job, a repair can be genuinely invisible. If the product is still made, expect a slight batch difference that weathers out. If it is discontinued, matching becomes a sourcing and blending exercise — and the trick worth knowing is to pull units from a low-visibility spot for the visible repair and put the substitute where nobody looks.
Once a repair passes roughly half the cost of replacing the surface, you are spending real money on a base that will keep asking for more. This calculator shows the repair, the cost of lifting and relaying the affected area on a corrected base, and the cost of replacing the whole surface, so that decision is made on numbers rather than on optimism.
This calculator works from the 2026 cost figures published for Carmel Valley and North County San Diego. What it cannot see is what your subgrade is made of, where your water currently goes, whether a machine can reach the area, or what is buried under the lawn. We will come out, measure the site and give you a written scope with no pressure attached.
Book a free site visitPublished 2026 figures put a small spot repair — a few pavers and minor settling — at $300 – $1,200, a moderate repair involving drainage correction, edge work or a larger settled area at $1,000 – $3,500, and a larger-area restoration at $3,000 – $10,000 and up. This calculator builds from those tiers, priced by the symptoms you tick and the area affected.
Because the base under that spot is not doing its job, and resetting the pavers without correcting it just resets the clock. The three usual causes are a base that was never compacted properly, water washing the fines out of it — a downspout, an irrigation leak, a bad fall — or a load the surface was never built for, such as parking on a patio-spec base. Until the cause is fixed, the same square metre will keep failing.
Yes, and that is one of the main advantages of a paver surface over a slab. A single unit can be lifted, the bedding corrected, and a replacement set in. The complication is never the labour — it is matching. Spares from the original job make it invisible; a discontinued product usually means blending a close substitute across a wider area so the difference reads as texture rather than a patch.
The rule of thumb worth applying is that repair stops being the right answer somewhere around half the cost of replacement, and sooner than that when the base rather than the pavers is the problem. It also matters that the rest of the surface is the same age as the part that failed. This calculator shows repair, relaying the affected area, and full replacement side by side so you can see where your project sits.
Joint sand is a consumable. Polymeric sand typically lasts several years before it needs topping up, and it goes faster on surfaces that are pressure-washed aggressively or that shed a lot of water across them. Keeping the joints full is the cheapest maintenance there is, and it is what prevents weeds, ants, spreading and the loss of interlock that turns into a real repair.
No. It is a planning estimate. Repair carries the widest uncertainty of any calculator on this site, because nobody knows what the base looks like until the pavers come up. Use it to understand the scale of the problem and the options, then have it looked at properly.
Planning the whole project? Start at the Carmel Valley paver calculator hub, or read more about our paver repair and replacement service.