A Proposal, Prepared With Care
A Note From Justin
Bill, Sarah — apologies for not knocking before we walked the property. Your stones told us a story and we kept reading. We get absorbed in the work and forget our manners. The numbers below are built from what we measured — and what we’d do if these were our stones.
Your Front Door
Your Back Patio
What We Measured
Three surfaces. Two priced. One on the house. Numbers below are the starting defaults in the calculator — move them up or down as needed.
Large-format travertine-look concrete paver, one continuous surface from the lanai out around the pool and up the side path. Measured 1,888 sqft total minus 345 sqft of pool & spa cutout.
1,543 sqft sealable
Tumbled cobble concrete paver running about halfway up the drive toward the garage and across the front entry patio. Smaller format than the back, variegated tan / cream / charcoal — we’ll match the seal sheen so front and back read as one home.
755 sqft
Vertical paver face along the slope. Sealed continuous with the deck so the pattern reads as one surface.
~30 linear ft
Comped · On UsWhat We Found On Site
Photographed during our walkthrough. Both are in the price — and both are what most companies skip.
01 · Calcification
Humid Florida air pulls alkaline moisture up through the paver from below. Once the original sealer is gone, the mineral wash dries on the surface as a white film that won’t pressure-wash off.
02 · Failed Sealer · Front Entry
The original coating has worn through unevenly at the entry — the highest-traffic spot on the property and the first impression for every guest. Patchy tone, no protection, and rain water sits instead of beading.
What Restoration Actually Looks Like
Left side is the photo we took on site. Right side is the same surface, same angle, same light — rendered in the post-restoration state with Trident CAT 5 wet-look sealer locked in and joint sand back at perfect levels. Drag the gold handle to compare.
Renderings, not photographs Until restoration day these are AI-rendered visualizations of the post-CAT 5 state — calibrated against more than a century of combined FCPE expertise on Northeast Florida pavers. The actual finish typically lands a hair richer.
The Property At A Glance
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What’s Actually In The Gold Plan
The Gold exterior annual plan is bundled in on every term. Here’s exactly what our trained exterior team is on-site doing, every calendar year.
The 5-Year Picture
Over the life of your 5-year contract, your property gets touched by our trained exterior team 62 times. Not a number we made up — every one is on the calendar before you sign.
What We Seal With
Most companies use box-store acrylic sealer that fails in 12-18 months on Florida pavers, hazes in the humidity, and leaves you with a slick surface. That’s not us.
Trident CAT 5 is a commercial 2-part urethane wet-look sealer engineered for hurricane-coast concrete paver. Deep joint penetration, UV-stable, and a real 3–5 year life in NE Florida sun — the lower end on full-sun pool deck, the upper end on shaded patios and vertical wall surfaces. This is what lets us put a real guarantee on the work.
Personalize the Install
Two color decisions get made before kickoff: what joint sand reads in the gaps, and whether you want a color tint in the sealer. Browse the options below — we’ll lock the final picks together at the kickoff visit.
Our honest recommendation: skip the tint. Trident CAT 5 with T3 True Tone already deepens warm tan and cream pavers a shade and a half on its own — clear sealer plus the right joint sand usually nails the look without locking you into a one-way decision. We’ll show you a test patch at the kickoff visit before committing either way.
Our Guarantee
You will not find a “that’s extra” line-item on an invoice from us. You will not find a clause asking you to sign away a right to a re-do. If a joint fails, a section hazes, or a paver looks off inside our warranty window — we’re back on the property at the next possible window. No questions. No negotiations.
That is not a marketing promise. It is the only way we know how to run.
Before You Sign Anyone Else’s Quote
You’re getting other estimates — that’s how we’d do it too. But sealing pavers is the one trade where the cheap quote can cost you the whole patio. The questions below are what we’d ask if it were our home. Run through them with the next two contractors before you decide.
If they can’t walk you through it cleanly — clean, strip, joint reset, prime, two coats with proper recoat windows, anti-slip if needed — the rest of the answers don’t matter.
Stripping, drying, sanding, two coats with overnight cure — we plan for 3 to 5 days on a property your size. A “we’ll knock it out tomorrow” is a red flag. Pavers don’t cure on someone else’s schedule.
The sealer is the whole job. Box-store acrylic is what most companies use because it’s cheap and dries fast — and fails in 12 to 18 months on Florida pavers. Ask for the brand. Ask for the spec sheet. We use Trident CAT 5 commercial 2-part urethane — rated 3 to 5 years.
If they say polymeric — run. Polymeric sand cracks, locks moisture under the sealer, turns a 5-year job into a 2-year warranty claim.
If they say play sand — run faster. That’s beach sand. It washes out the first hard rain.
Joint angular sand is the only correct answer. And if they don’t show you color samples, they aren’t thinking about how it looks against your stone.
The right answer mentions a mechanical plate compactor. Sand goes in dry, gets vibrated down into the joints in passes, then topped off and re-vibrated until the chamfer line is clean. If they’re filling joints with a broom and calling it done, the joints will fail.
Two. The right answer is two. If they say three or four — that’s a problem. More coats doesn’t mean better protection — it means the first coats weren’t dilution-correct and they’re stacking sealer to compensate. That hazes, peels, and traps moisture under the surface.
Coat one needs time to flash and set before coat two goes down. Manufacturer-specified window — on Trident CAT 5 it’s typically 60 to 90 minutes depending on humidity. Stacking the next coat on top of wet sealer is exactly how you get the milky white film you’ve seen on neighbors’ patios.
1:1 sealer-to-water. That’s the spec. Concentrated sealer doesn’t mean better — it sits on top instead of penetrating, and that’s how you get the cloudy haze that won’t pressure-wash off.
If it’s a 2-part urethane like Trident CAT 5: parts A and B get measured and combined separately first — then diluted 1:1 with water for application. Anyone skipping the part-A part-B step is shortcutting the chemistry.
If their answers don’t line up The cheap quote is rarely cheap. Failed sealer costs more to remove than it did to apply — and you live with the haze in the meantime. Ask the questions. Compare the answers. Then decide.
Ready When You Are
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