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Tremron Home Additions & ADU: The Jacksonville Owner’s Guide
If you have a Tremron paver driveway, patio, or walkway on your Jacksonville property and you’re planning an addition or ADU, the connection matters more than most homeowners realize. Matching new hardscape to existing Tremron patterns, colors, and laid dimensions is a specialist job, and we’ve matched hundreds of Tremron lines across Jacksonville neighborhoods from Avondale to Mandarin. Installed home additions in Jacksonville typically run $45,000 to $130,000, with ADU construction ranging $90,000 to $220,000 depending on size, foundation work, and whether we’re tying into existing Tremron hardscape. Most owners discover the Tremron connection the hard way: they complete an addition, then realize the new concrete or pavers don’t match the original Tremron color batch, and the whole yard looks patched together.
Here’s the thing about Tremron products: they’re manufactured in Jacksonville and Miami plants, which means color batches vary by production year, not just by product line. We see it constantly on homes that were built five years apart on the same street. What looked like the same “Chestnut” paver in 2019 is not the same as the 2024 batch. Matching requires knowing the series, the production era, and how Northeast Florida’s sun and rain have aged the existing surface. That’s the work we do before we ever pour a footer or frame a wall.
Which Tremron Models This Applies To
Tremron’s Jacksonville catalog breaks into a few major families, and identifying yours is straightforward once you know what to look for. The Estate Series covers larger-format pavers often used for driveways and pool decks. The Mega Series includes oversized slabs that many mid-2010s Jacksonville homes used for walkways. The Olde Towne Series are tumbled pavers with an aged look, popular in Riverside and San Marco for their historic feel. Each series has its own dimension set, and even a quarter-inch difference in paver height will leave a visible lip in your hardscape transition.
How to identify what you have: flip over a paver near the edge of your existing surface. Tremron stamps most pieces with a production code on the underside or side face. The code tells us the series, the plant, and the production period. If the stamp has sun-faded or worn away, we measure the paver’s dimensions in millimeters and compare against Tremron’s specification sheets. Color matching is the harder part. We bring physical sample chips from current production runs and hold them against your existing pavers in direct sunlight and shade before recommending anything.
A note on OEM versus aftermarket: Tremron pavers are the OEM product. Aftermarket “equivalent” pavers from regional manufacturers rarely match the color pigments Tremron uses, and they almost never weather the same way. We’ve seen aftermarket pavers that looked identical on day one and were visibly different after six months of Jacksonville UV exposure. When an addition or ADU requires extending or tying into existing Tremron hardscape, we recommend staying with the OEM product line. The price difference is negligible on most projects, and the long-term appearance difference is not.
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Signs Your Existing Tremron Hardscape Is Failing
Before you build an addition or ADU, you need to know whether your existing Tremron surface can support the tied-in look you want. Here’s what we see on Jacksonville properties, and what each symptom means:
- Sunken or dipping pavers near the house footprint. This usually means the paver base was not compacted deeply enough in the original install, or water has been washing the base material away. In Jacksonville’s sandy soil, this is common. The fix is lifting, adding base, re-compacting, and resetting, which is the only good time to do it: before new construction goes in beside it.
- Color fading that’s uneven across the surface. Florida UV is relentless. Tremron pavers hold up well, but areas under tree canopy fade less than exposed sections. When we add on, we can blend new pavers by pulling pieces from less visible areas of your existing surface and placing them at the transition lines.
- Efflorescence: a white, chalky film that won’t scrub off. This is mineral salts rising through the concrete. It’s cosmetic, not structural, but it means water is moving through your pavers more than it should be. We address grading and drainage before adding structures that might make it worse.
- Cracks running across multiple pavers in a straight line. This points to a settling seam in the base underneath, often from a broken drain line or a tree root. Ignoring it before building new square footage against that edge means the new work will shift along the same line.
- Loose or wobbling edge restraint. When the plastic or aluminum edge that holds your pavers in place breaks, the whole field starts to drift. We see this on older Jacksonville homes where commercial edge restraint was never installed. It’s a straightforward fix before new hardscape ties in.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
For a Jacksonville home addition, expect $45,000 to $130,000 installed. An ADU runs $90,000 to $220,000. These ranges assume standard framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing rough-in, and interior finishes that match the existing home. When Tremron hardscape matching is part of the scope, we add a line item for paver removal, base repair, and reinstallation, typically a few thousand dollars depending on the affected square footage.
What drives the range: the condition of the existing foundation and slab, whether we need to pour new footers through existing hardscape, how much Tremron material needs to be lifted and reset, and the finish level inside the new space. We give you a written price before any work starts. Not an estimate with allowances that grow later. A written price with materials named by brand and labor broken into stages. If the price changes, we tell you why before it does, in writing.
Our work on the addition carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise. If something isn’t right after the job is complete, we make it right. That covers the framing, the finishes, and the Tremron transitions we tied in. On Tremron pavers themselves, the manufacturer warranty applies to the material, and we handle that conversation for you if a product defect shows up.
DIY or Call Us?
You can check a few things yourself before anyone comes out. Find the stamp on your existing pavers and write down the code. Photograph the paver edges and any cracks in daylight. Measure the approximate square footage of the area that needs matching. That helps us come prepared with the right sample chips and spec sheets.
What we’d caution against: pulling up pavers yourself to see what’s underneath, or buying “close enough” pavers from a big-box store to fill gaps. Tremron coloring and sizing are tight, and a wrong match is a visible, permanent mistake embedded in your hardscape. Resetting pavers properly involves compaction and grading work that needs a plate compactor and a laser level. Getting it close is the same as getting it wrong, in the long run. If you’re considering an addition or ADU that touches existing Tremron surface, call (904) 643-6243 and we’ll talk through what you have before anything gets moved.
FAQs
Tremron pavers on a properly compacted base in Jacksonville typically last 25 to 40 years before the surface shows meaningful wear. The pavers themselves are durable; what fails first in our climate is the base underneath, especially when drainage was marginal from the start.
Yes, in most cases. We lift the affected area, repair or re-compact the base, address any drainage issue, and reset the existing pavers. When a few pavers are cracked beyond saving, we order matching Tremron material and work the new pieces into less visible areas so the transition stays clean. Call (904) 643-6243 and we’ll tell you what’s actually needed.
A home addition in Jacksonville typically takes 12 to 20 weeks from permit to final walkthrough, depending on scope. An ADU runs 16 to 30 weeks. Hardscape matching adds a few days at the front and back ends: lifting and safely storing existing Tremron pavers before construction, then resetting and compacting after.
We order Tremron material per job, matched to your existing production code and color batch. We don’t keep a warehouse of Tremron in stock because the wrong aging or production period in a paver means the match won’t hold. We’d rather take the extra few days to source the right pieces than leave you with a visible patch.
Written by Graham Stein, Owner, Elmstead Remodeling Jacksonville at Elmstead Remodeling Jacksonville, serving Jacksonville and nearby areas.
