Driveways are a bit like women. The younger they are, the better they look.

However, the beauty secrets for keeping a woman looking ageless have come a lot farther than erasing time and stress from your driveway. Poured concrete driveways that are given a fresh face with a painted on finish are about as long lasting as pancake makeup. These are temporary measures that require repetitive reapplication and touch ups to remain looking halfway decent. The best beauty secret for driveways in Los Angeles is interlocking pavers. No pancake makeup necessary … EVER.

Wrinkle creams are really popular for women and even men of all ages. Most of them are completely useless and a major waste of money. They don’t get rid of the wrinkles that aging produces, but do, while present on your skin, fill the wrinkles and deflect light so they are less noticeable. Repairing cracks in your driveway does look better than leaving the ugly fissures in the concrete slab surface, but they are still unsightly and NEVER blend in with the rest of the surface. Interlocking pavers flex with the earth and don’t need any cracks or wrinkles repaired … EVER.

Asphalt driveways can be resurfaced much easier and more permanently than poured concrete. This is something like having a chemical peel in reverse to remain looking youthful due to a complete lack of dead skin cells on aged skin. Both processes must be repeated every so often to keep up appearances. Every time resurfacing is needed, the cost of maintaining good looking face value becomes more cost intensive. Interlocking pavers don’t need resurfacing and can remain as beautiful as they were the day they were installed … for up to 100 years!

Cheap makeup is very damaging to a woman’s skin and can increase the development of aging along with creating acne by blocking the pores. Cheap pavers never give your driveway the long lasting always youthful beauty that quality paving stones will. Clay pavers are not going to hold up to the stress and wear of time and the earth’s movement. They chip easily, crack readily and cannot be resurfaced to correct the problem. Interlocking pavers are four times stronger than concrete slab driveways. Driveway pavers don’t chip, the surface will never erode away and when properly installed they don’t need replacing … EVER.

Poured concrete driveways lack any form of character and are about as lacking in the ability of expression as is found following a Botox treatment. Rigid and inflexible. The same can be said about mortared brick pavement surfaces. There is no mortar used with interlocking pavers, which allows them to move and remain in place whenever the soil reacts to flexing planetary muscles. The swell and fall of expansive California soils, as well as the tremors from earthquakes never leave your driveway looking worse or under stress. At least not when you have a paving stones driveway, they remain beautiful and timeless for decades on end.