Paving in Fourways, Lonehill and Dainfern
Estates, clusters and new homes. In Fourways the question is often not only what you want, but what your homeowners' association will approve.
Estate country
Dainfern, established in 1985, is described as the first gated golf estate in South Africa. It covers about 320 acres with roughly 1,200 houses, and the Dainfern Homeowners Association, registered in 1991, manages the estate. Many developments around Fourways and Lonehill followed a similar estate or cluster model. For paving, that matters because estate rules can control materials, colours, contractor access, working hours and deposits.
Sources: Dainfern, Wikipedia
Before you take a quote
- Read your estate's architectural or aesthetic rules on driveways and paving.
- Check whether plans or a sample paver need approval before work starts.
- Find out contractor access rules: registration at the gate, working hours, deposits, rubble removal.
- Give every contractor the same information, so their quotes include the same conditions.
Tight plots and run-off
Cluster and estate stands are often small and close together, and much of each stand is roofed or paved. In a summer thunderstorm a lot of water comes off a small area quickly. Paving should be laid to fall away from the house and towards a drain, a planted area or the street system, and not onto the neighbour's stand. The ground here is part of the Johannesburg-Pretoria granite, where engineers have described residual soils that can collapse when wet, so keeping water out of the base is worth the effort.
Sources: Munnik, Verster and van Rooyen, Spatial pattern and variability of soil and hillslope properties in a granitic landscape 2: Pretoria-Johannesburg area, South African Journal of Plant and Soil 9(2), 1992; Brink and Kantey, Collapsible grain structure in residual granite soils in southern Africa, 5th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Paris, 1961 (ISSMGE library)
Paving pages for Fourways
Frequently asked questions
Do I need HOA approval to pave?
Many estates require it, especially for paving visible from the street. Check your estate rules first.
Can I match the developer's original pavers?
Sometimes. The original product may be discontinued. Ask contractors to find the nearest match and show you a sample.
Do you cover Cedar Lakes and Broadacres?
Send your suburb or estate with the job and we pass it to contractors who cover it.
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