Asphalt driveway Fact/Fiction

[GemParty]

1. Replacing an old driveway soon. Once they put down the base do you need to wait 3-4 weeks before the asphalt goes down? Or is this a marketing strategy for companies to place a sign by your lawn and get neighbors to order jobs too?

2. Should you seal a driveway?

3. How long must we wait before running, dribbling, and shooting hoops?


Any Yarders in the business? City Paving & General are in my neighborhood often.

 

[Stinger92860]

If I had to do it again, I would select a gravel driveway, pea stone size.

 

[XLCenterFan]

If I had to do it again, I would select a gravel driveway, pea stone size.

By FAR the best option - both aesthetically, environmentally, and economically. Crushed stones or shells are my favorite look.

 

[jibsey]

By FAR the best option - both aesthetically, environmentally, and economically. Crushed stones or shells are my favorite look.

I don't like snowblowing on gravel. And that too needs maintenance because it ruts, channels and gets depressions

 

[Northbound]

If I had to do it again, I would select a gravel driveway, pea stone size.

We're out in a very rural area so my drive is dirt/gravel (uphill with a curve to a plateau) and two things I don't love:

1) It gets rutted so now it's an annual fill exercise and I'm going to eventually lose the battle
2) I"m pretty good with the plow, but when it snows I'm still pushing stone onto the lawn

 

[Northbound]

I don't like snowblowing on gravel. And that too needs maintenance because it ruts, channels and gets depressions

This is correct - I should delete my post, but I'll just let it sit there so everyone can think, as I would, why didn't that genius just read the post above and like it. I deserve the ridicule.

 

[RichZ]

By FAR the best option - both aesthetically, environmentally, and economically. Crushed stones or shells are my favorite look.

My parking area in the back yard is all crushed trap rock -- 3/4". It needs another load every couple years. But drainage-wise, its the best option for me.

 

[Padutch5]

I'm also gearing up to start collecting quotes to re-pave my driveway. The pavement is quite old and real beat up but unfortunately it's real long - around 600 feet with a large rectangular turn-around at the end. I live on a busy main road so I'm not really sure where I'm going to park when it's being re-done too. Really not looking forward to it.

Now is the time to do it. Oil prices are way down and that is a major part of asphalt cost.

 

[uconnfan68]

If I had to do it again, I would select a gravel driveway, pea stone size.

Not in a CT winter.

 

[methodology]

Not in a CT winter.

A load of stone costs nothing in relative terms. I just get a load every spring borrow a skid steer and it takes a few hours