16 service areasOttawa and surrounding townsFree site visits
Where we pave across Ottawa and eastern Ontario
Paving Experts Ottawa paves across 16 areas, from Kanata and Barrhaven to Orleans. That includes towns outside the city, such as Rockland, Embrun, Russell, Carleton Place and Kemptville, where entrance approvals go through the local township instead of the City. Each area page lists local prices and permit rules.
Ottawa suburbs and rural wards
Prescott and Russell, Lanark and North Grenville
Local soil and drainage conditions on every page
One crew, one written quote
Check we cover you
Give us your area and what the driveway is doing.
If you are outside these areas, tell us anyway and we will say yes or no honestly.
Areas we serve
Sixteen areas, each with its own ground, its own housing age and in five cases its own municipality and permit process.
Kanata North and South
Kanata
Beaverbrook driveways date from 1964, Morgan's Grant from the 1990s. Two markets under one name.
Urban, suburban and rural share almost nothing beyond the material.
Urban infill
Narrow frontages, so the rule that a driveway cannot exceed 50 percent of frontage bites hard. Access is tight for equipment and the apron ties into a city road.
Suburban double
The standard 600 to 800 square feet, usually on clay, usually with a drainage question at the garage end and a grade that was set thirty years ago.
Rural laneway
A ditch crossing means a culvert, which the homeowner owns and maintains. Haul distance from the aggregate pit becomes the largest line on the quote.
Three things that change by area
This is why the area pages are not interchangeable.
What is under the driveway
Bedrock is exposed along the Carp Ridge through Kanata, while Riverside South sits on clay with groundwater 0.7 to 1.3 m below surface. The same driveway design is wrong in one of those places.
Who issues the permit
Rockland, Embrun, Russell, Carleton Place and Kemptville are outside the City of Ottawa. The Ottawa access permit process does not apply and approvals go through the local municipality.
How old the driveways are
Old Barrhaven dates from the 1960s and 70s and Kanata's first street went in during 1964. Stittsville's suburban stock is largely 1990s onward. Age changes whether the honest answer is maintenance or replacement.
Urban, suburban and rural are three different jobs
Ottawa covers 2,788 square kilometres, which is larger than some entire municipalities elsewhere in the province. A downtown infill driveway, a suburban double in Barrhaven and a rural laneway in Osgoode share almost nothing beyond the material. Downtown lots are narrow, so the rule that a driveway cannot exceed 50 percent of frontage bites hard and access is tight for equipment. Suburban driveways are the standard 600 to 800 square feet, usually on clay, usually with a drainage question at the garage. Rural entrances involve a ditch, which means a culvert, which the homeowner owns and maintains. We quote all three, but we do not quote them the same way.
2,788 km2Area the City of Ottawa covers
204,500Single detached homes in the Ottawa metro area
30 to 50 mBorehole spacing the City requires for infill, because ground varies that much
5 of 16Areas here that sit outside the City of Ottawa entirely
Five of these areas are not in Ottawa
Rockland
City of Clarence-Rockland, United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Entrance approvals go through that municipality.
Embrun and Russell
Township of Russell, Prescott and Russell. Ottawa's access permit and its frontage rule do not apply.
Carleton Place
A town in Lanark County with its own entrance approval process.
Kemptville
Municipality of North Grenville, Leeds and Grenville. We will point you at the right office rather than quoting Ottawa's rules at you.
Ottawa is not one paving market
The city covers 2,788 square kilometres and holds just over a million people. Ground changes within a few hundred metres, so there is no standard Ottawa driveway. A City study for the downtown truck tunnel found clay 10 to 20 metres thick along one street and only 3 to 5 metres, and stiff, along another a short walk away. Along the Carp Ridge, running from Kanata through Carp to Arnprior, Precambrian bedrock is exposed at the surface.
That variation is not academic. On clay the job is drainage and a deep granular base. On shallow rock the failure mode is different: water perches on the rock instead of draining, and excavation costs more. A contractor who builds both the same way gets one of them wrong.
Housing age changes the answer
Kanata's first street went in during 1964 and the place grew from 19,728 people in 1981 to 98,938 in 2021, so one name covers driveways sixty years old and driveways twenty years old. Barrhaven was founded in 1968 and now holds over 103,000 people, with Old Barrhaven west of Greenbank dating from the 1960s and 70s. Stittsville was founded in 1854 but its suburban stock is mostly 1990s onward.
A sixty year old driveway on a 1960s base is a rebuild conversation. A twenty year old driveway on a properly built base is very often a sealing conversation. We do not open either until we have looked.
Call (343) 314-8525 and we will come out.
Questions about our coverage
Do you charge more further out?
Travel is a real cost and we will tell you if it affects a quote, but we do not apply a hidden distance surcharge. What genuinely changes price at distance is haul, particularly for gravel where the run from the pit is often the largest single cost in the job.
Does the Ottawa permit process apply in Rockland or Kemptville?
No. Rockland is in the City of Clarence-Rockland, Embrun and Russell are in the Township of Russell, Carleton Place is its own town in Lanark County, and Kemptville is in the Municipality of North Grenville. Each handles its own entrance approvals, so the Ottawa access permit fee and its six to eight week processing time do not apply there. Ask us and we will point you at the right office.
Can you do several driveways on one street at once?
Yes, and it is the single best way to reduce cost per driveway. Mobilising a crew, a paver and a roller costs the same whether it is one driveway or six, which is why small isolated jobs carry a premium. Neighbours booking together share that overhead.
Is my area on clay?
Much of Ottawa sits on Champlain Sea clay, but it is not uniform and we will not guess from a postcode. The City itself requires boreholes at 30 to 50 metre spacing for infill housing because conditions vary that much. We confirm on site.
Book a site visit in your area
We will look at the ground, the grade and the drainage before quoting anything.
