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Unilock Construction in Lexington Hills, CA | Viceroy Construction
Viceroy Construction provides independent Unilock installation, repair, and rebuilding across Lexington Hills, from paver driveways on steep grades to U-Cara retaining walls that hold back canyon slopes. We’re not a manufacturer-authorized dealer – we’re a general contractor who buys, places, and services Unilock systems, which means we tell you the truth about what works on this terrain and what doesn’t. What makes our Unilock work different here: we build for runoff, slope movement, and Cal Fire review, not for a flat suburban slab. Call (877) 358-6557 for a free estimate on Unilock pavers, walls, or a full addition that ties into your hardscape.
Why Lexington Hills Residents Choose Us for Unilock Service
Most people only hear about Unilock once they’ve already seen a Brussels Block driveway sag or a U-Cara wall start to gap. By then, the failure is usually in the base, the drainage, or the edge restraint – not the paver itself. We know Unilock systems from years of installing them across the Santa Cruz Mountains, and we know Lexington Hills specifically: the ZIP 95031 lots off Highway 17, the mid-century cabins on graded slopes, the narrow private roads where your material choices have to match what a delivery truck can actually reach.
Our approach is simple. We use Unilock‘s own matching units, caps, and polymeric joint sand when we rebuild, because the profile and color need to tie into what’s already in the field. We don’t hand you off to a paver crew that only knows flat valley slabs and then disappears when the hillside pushes back. Viceroy Construction handles the full scope – paver driveway, retaining wall, home addition, drainage – under one contract. Neil Drummond grew up in the Saratoga foothills not far from here, and he still walks every Lexington Hills job himself before calling it done. That matters when your driveway apron is pulling away from the garage and the next winter storm is already on the calendar.
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Common Unilock Construction Problems We Solve in Lexington Hills
- Heave and settlement on paver driveways. We see this constantly on Lexington Hills driveways where the base was compacted for flat ground, but the grade sends winter runoff under the pavers. The result is rocking units, joint sand washing out, and a lip forming at the driveway apron.
- Polymeric sand failure after heavy rain. Lexington Hills gets serious winter rain, and on a sloped Unilock patio or walkway, water sheets downhill instead of soaking in. Poorly installed joints erode within a season or two, leaving pavers loose and sharp-edged.
- U-Cara retaining wall face-out and gap creep. On cut-slope lots, the hillside pushes year after year. A U-Cara wall without proper geogrid reinforcement and heel drainage will slowly rotate forward, and the gaps between courses will open up. We rebuild these walls correctly – with drainage, not just stacked block.
- Edges and borders ravelling on narrow roads. Lexington Hills private mountain roads are tight, and turnaround space is scarce. Equipment and trucks scrub paver edges every time someone maneuvers, so edge restraints get chewed up fast unless they’re installed with the local conditions in mind.
- Septic and drainage conflicts with new paver work. Many Lexington Hills properties are on well and septic. A paver patio or driveway addition that crosses a leach field or cuts off a drainage swale creates problems years later. We scope for that before we ever drop a pallet of block.
Unilock Service in Lexington Hills: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Lexington Hills sits in unincorporated Santa Cruz County, not inside a city with its own building department. That one detail changes how Unilock work actually gets done here. A retaining wall over a certain height – and most Unilock U-Cara walls on these hillside lots are – runs through county permitting and Cal Fire’s wildland-urban-interface review. So does paver work tied to a new addition or structural change. The reviewer may require a different wall design, additional drainage at the heel, or a turn-around width on the driveway that changes the whole layout. We’ve had projects where the Cal Fire requirement for turnaround space forced a narrower paver apron and a different edge restraint system than the original plan called for. If your contractor doesn’t know this going in, you get walls that fail inspection and schedules that drag into fire season. We plan for it from the first site visit, because in Lexington Hills, the county and Cal Fire are part of the design team whether anyone wants them there or not. This is exactly why a flat-valley contractor can’t just drive up Highway 17 and produce the same result.
Unilock Models & Products We Service in Lexington Hills
We work with the Unilock product lines that make sense for mountain terrain, and we service what we install. That includes Brussels Block for driveways and walkways – tumbled, dimensional pavers that take the grade well. Beacon Hill for cleaner, smoother traditional surfaces. Richcliff where our clients want a flagstone look with a manufactured paver. And the U-Cara Multi-Face wall system for retaining and seat walls, which we build with proper geogrid and drainage every time.
On the parts side, we stock and order Unilock’s own matching units, edge restraints, caps, and polymeric joint sand. We don’t substitute generic block into an existing Brussles Block field – the profiles don’t line up and the color stays wrong forever. Our Unilock sales & service approach is repair-first: on older driveways and patios, we lift and relay sound units with a rebuilt base and fresh sand before we ever recommend a full tear-out. Replacement only happens when units are cracked, spalled, or the sub-base is beyond saving.
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What you’ll pay for Unilock work in Lexington Hills depends on the slope, the access, and whether county permitting is involved. A paver driveway on a steep graded lot costs more than the same square footage on a flat valley pad because the base prep is deeper, drainage is more involved, and the crew might be hauling material up a narrow road in smaller loads. Here are the ranges we work within:
| Unilock Service | Lexington Hills Price Range |
|---|---|
| Paver Driveway Installation | $7,000 – $18,000 |
| Paver Patio Installation | $3,500 – $11,000 |
| Home Addition (tied to hardscape) | $45,000 – $130,000 |
Every estimate is free and includes a written line-item breakdown. You’ll know exactly what the base, the units, the edge restraint, and the drainage cost before any work starts. Call (877) 358-6557 to schedule yours.
Serving Lexington Hills, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lexington Hills area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs – Unilock Construction in Lexington Hills
Yes, if the base is built for it. Most Unilock failures on Lexington Hills grades come from flat-land compaction methods – the base isn’t deep enough and the drainage doesn’t account for runoff sheeting down the slope. We build deeper aggregate bases, grade for water to shed away from the structure, and use edge restraints sized for mountain conditions. Call (877) 358-6557 and we’ll walk your specific driveway.
It depends on the height and what’s below it. Most U-Cara retaining walls on Lexington Hills cut-slope lots run through unincorporated Santa Cruz County permitting, and walls near structures or roads may trigger Cal Fire wildland-urban-interface review. We check the requirements for every site before we quote, so there are no surprises after excavation starts.
Usually, yes. We’ve delivered Brussels Block and U-Cara units to Lexington Hills properties where the road barely fits a pickup sideways. It means smaller loads, strategic staging, and sometimes a transfer near the main road – but it gets done. We’ll assess access during the free estimate and tell you if there’s a material or delivery constraint that changes the plan.
Yes. The washing out is a drainage problem, not a paver problem. On sloped Lexington Hills patios, water sheets across the surface and takes the joint sand with it. We fix this by correcting the slope, installing drainage where the water collects, and re-sanding with Unilock’s polymeric sand. Call (877) 358-6557 for a repair quote.
We use Unilock’s own matching caps, units, and edge restraints on every repair and rebuild. Generic block doesn’t match the profile or color of an existing Unilock field. On a driveway or wall that still has life in it, we’d rather relay sound units than tear out a system that can be repaired for a fraction of the cost.
Service Areas Near Lexington Hills
Viceroy Construction serves Lexington Hills and the surrounding South Bay foothills and valley communities. Our crews regularly work on Unilock projects in Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, and Cupertino – each with their own terrain and permitting realities. See Unilock service in Loyola and Unilock service in San Jose for coverage details, or visit our Lexington Hills service area page to see the full scope of what we build in the mountains.
Book Your Unilock Service in Lexington Hills Today
If your Unilock driveway is settling, your U-Cara wall is gapping, or you’re planning new paver work on a Lexington Hills lot, call us. We’ll come out, look at the slope and drainage, and give you a straight answer. Reach Viceroy Construction at (877) 358-6557. Estimates are free and we’ll tell you what’s repairable and what isn’t.
Written by Neil Drummond, Owner at Viceroy Construction, serving Lexington Hills and the surrounding South Bay from the Saratoga foothills.