Can exterior paver and hardscape maintenance wait until next year?
Minor hardscape repairs and preventive sealants can often wait, but cracks that allow water penetration risk freezing and expanding during winter weather. Delaying necessary maintenance risks turning minor settling or gaps into major structural damage once freezing temperatures hit.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1getting multiple vendor quotes
- 2consulting online forums for advice on contractor pricing and scopes of work
- 3Leaving the crack unsealed since concrete naturally cracks along control joints and will last a long time without intervention.
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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