Brick pavers are individual pieces that can independently move with our frost in the winter times.

Having a correct compacted base can eliminate uneven, moving and settling of bricks many brick manufacturers have special surface toppings to retain color and give different looks since they are manufactured in a controlled environment they offer a lot of different colors and patterns to please almost any look.

Concrete is considered a monolithic slab. Normally there is a minimum thickness of concrete needed to support certain loads. The slab is usually cut or rolled into different sections because concrete will crack in our environment.
The cracks are more hidden in those cut or trowel joints. To protect in enhance the color of printed concrete, there is usually an ongoing maintenance of sealer every few years where many brick pavers do not need that. Adequate compacted travel base is just as important.

Brick pavers can cost anywhere from 50 to 75% more than printed concrete, but without the long-term maintenance that printed concrete needs as far as sealer.

Today’s brick pavers use a polymeric sand, which basically has a self healing glue in the sand that is used between the joints. A well prepared brick job can go five years without doing any maintenance to those joints the additional sand needed sometimes a very simple and inexpensive process to do. Brick pavers can also be permeable. They use a wider gap with a small pebble or stone in between the joints. This allows water to go through them and back down into the ground without running off, so it’s definitely an environmental benefit.