CastleLite Block is the leading source of Concrete Pavers, Concrete Masonry Units and Retaining Wall Systems for residential and commercial clients in Northern California. Castlelite Block pavers are ideal for driveways, walkways, patios, pool decks, and more. We offer both segmental retaining walls and landscaping walls which can be used to create retaining walls, free standing walls, columns, benches, and outdoor kitchens. For over 65 years we have proudly served the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento
What makes CastleLite pavers different from other pavers?
Factory Direct – We are the only manufacturer in Northern California selling direct to the consumer. This will save you money.
Quality Control – We manufacture our pavers in small batches to control the quality of the paver and the color blend consistency
Through Mix – All of our concrete pavers have color mixed throughout the paver, while our competitor’s cover an inferior product with a colored coating.
Curing – All of our pavers are moisture cured in temperature regulated kilns for even curing
Fleet Delivery – To ensure timely delivery, we deliver over 90% of our products with our own truck fleet.
What is Factory Direct?
CastleLite Block is unique from other manufacturers of these building products in Northern California because we offer all of our products direct from our factory to the consumer. Buying Factory Direct means you’re dealing direct with the manufacturer. By establishing a Factory Direct relationship with CastleLite, you know you are getting the best possible price and service.
Since we are the manufacturer and we deliver over 90% of our products with our own fleet delivery service, we can respond to your needs quickly. This ensures that your landscaping projects start on time.
At CastleLite Block we make concrete pavers affordable for your patio, sidewalk or other landscaping project.
How We Manufacture Our Pavers
CastleLite Block manufactures many different shapes, sizes and colors of concrete pavers. With the numerous patterns available, it allows the customer to make their project unique from any other project.
Our interlocking concrete pavers are manufactured in accordance with ICPI specifications. Our 13 Acre state of the art facility has two independent production lines with new manufacturing equipment, paver molds and kilns to ensure that our products are produced with consistency and quality that you expect
We manufacture our CastleLite pavers in smaller batches than other manufacturers and that is so we can control the quality and the color blends of the materials better. All of our products are made with a combination of the finest aggregates, cements, high quality pigments, admixes and kiln curing process. Unlike other manufacturer’s we do not use fly ash in our pavers. Fly Ash dulls the colors of the concrete and is used as a cheap substitute to cement.
We Mix It Up
The manufacturing process is a very precise operation with many quality controls to ensure production of a high-quality product. These controls include raw materials, including graded and washed aggregates, portland cement, water, coloring pigments and admixtures. These ingredients are accurately proportioned and thoroughly mixed to form a homogeneous mixture. We require all of our suppliers to provide reports to ensure they provide quality materials to our facility. In order to control the material process, we use a computerized batch panel which repeatedly controls the amount of each material that is placed in the mixer.
Our CastleLite pavers are made with a low water-cement ratio (the more water added to a mix, the weaker the paver compressive strength) to produce a no-slump concrete with high strength and durability. Admixtures are used to increase strength, reduce mold wear, and reduce efflorescence. Water-repelling ad-mixtures may be added to reduce water absorption by the paver. Super-plasticizers disperse cement grains, permitting water reductions that produce high early strengths in the pavers. Coloring pigments disperse more uniformly in super-plasticized mixes and ensures a more uniform colored paver.
Color is the Difference
The ability to provide a large variety of colors gives concrete paver installers a major advantage over contractors who build other types of pavements. Color in our concrete paver units is controlled by adding pigments to the concrete during mixing. This allows our concrete pavers to have color mixed throughout the block and not just on the surface, like other manufacturer’s. Pigments are either organic or inorganic materials batched in a dry powder form. We use inorganic pigments in our concrete pavers, which is more durable than organic pigments. Inorganic pigments are composed of finely ground metal oxides obtained from natural or synthetic metal oxides. The intensity of color in concrete pavers initially increases linearly with an increase in the amount of pigment. Color in pavers is affected by the color of the cement used, water-cement ratio and the curing conditions (which is why we use a kiln system to moisture cure our pavers).
The Final Product
CastleLite Block is unique from other manufacturer’s of Concrete Pavers and Hardscape Products. We are the only manufacturer in Northern California that sells direct to the consumer. Our highly trained sales representatives are available to assist you in selecting the right paver for your driveway, sidewalk, walkway, or other landscaping project.
