Tarmac and repairs
New surfacing, overlays where an overlay is honest, and patching where it is not.
An overlay on a sound base is good value and we do a lot of it. An overlay on a base that has failed is a way of hiding the problem for a season. We will tell you which one you have after we have dug a trial hole, not after we have quoted, and sometimes the honest answer is that the whole thing needs taking up.
A trial hole, not a glance
We dig a small hole at the first visit and look at what is under your drive. Clay, sand, or somebody else’s rubble. It takes ten minutes and it decides the price.
Drainage designed first
Where the water goes, what the falls are, and whether the job needs planning permission. Settled before anybody chooses a colour.
The quote, by depth
Itemised with the excavation depth and the sub-base thickness written on it. A quote without those two numbers is not comparable to anything.
Dig, base, edge
Excavate to the depth quoted, lay and compact the Type 1 in layers, then the concrete haunch to every free edge before a block is laid.
Surface and joint
Lay to the fall, cut the edges, kiln-dried sand brushed and vibrated in twice with a week between. Then we come back and do it a third time.
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