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Asphalt Driveway
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:13 pm
Anyone have any experience with asphalt? Looking to pave my driveway and just trying to get some insight from someone knowledgable on it. Driveway is about 12X200 ft
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Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:13 pm to sasquatch69
Rebar reinforced concrete or gtfo
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:15 pm to Cosmo
Asphalt>concrete
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:17 pm to sasquatch69
The key to a good asphalt installation is a quality sub base. Don't go cheap and build the road base correctly the first time.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:18 pm to sasquatch69
All driveways in the northeast are asphalt
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:18 pm to sasquatch69
Wait until one of those companies come around that "had a little left over from another job"
They are totally trustworthy.
They are totally trustworthy.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:19 pm to sasquatch69
If you have a solid base to lay it on it wont be bad. We had a limestone driveway for years growing up and my parents put asphalt on top. So there was a very compact established bed beneath it. I have an aunt that has a house out in the country that is an old family house from the 1800's. There's never even been a crushed rock driveway as no one's really lived there full time since the 20s probably. They put in asphalt and its falling apart. Settles and cracks as the earth beneath it settles.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:23 pm to KG6
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If you have a solid base to lay it on it wont be bad. We had a limestone driveway for years growing up and my parents put asphalt on top. So there was a very compact established bed beneath it. I have an aunt that has a house out in the country that is an old family house from the 1800's. There's never even been a crushed rock driveway as no one's really lived there full time since the 20s probably. They put in asphalt and its falling apart. Settles and cracks as the earth beneath it settles.
I had the same experience...parent's had a crushed limestone driveway first and then overlayed with asphalt years later...worked very well and lasted many decades....
I would totally recommend laying some crushed limestone and driving on it for a couple of years to pack it into a base...
ETA: if you have trees anywhere near the driveway, you'll have to rent a trencher and cut any roots growing towards the driveway or they will totally frick up your asphalt...
This post was edited on 3/26/15 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 3/26/15 at 8:42 pm to sasquatch69
What kind of weight you are going to put on it. I had an asphalt for my rv lasted 10 months. Never again. Limestone doing fine.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:43 pm to Teton Tiger
There are a lot of people correct in the thread so far.
Asphalt is good in the Northeast because the highs aren't as high as the south.
With asphalt, you do need a really good subbase for it or it will be crap.
Being 12 x 200 in the south, I would go asphalt because concrete will run you between 10 and 15k. Not sure what the asphalt will run but it gives a bit more flexibility.
Asphalt is good in the Northeast because the highs aren't as high as the south.
With asphalt, you do need a really good subbase for it or it will be crap.
Being 12 x 200 in the south, I would go asphalt because concrete will run you between 10 and 15k. Not sure what the asphalt will run but it gives a bit more flexibility.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:47 pm to sasquatch69
If you are in GFunks LP District he can probably get it done for you on that Livingston Parish road tax plan.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:50 pm to sasquatch69
Prepare thy anoose.
Has come down in price from 20 years ago when it would have run you 60k, but still not cheap.
Has come down in price from 20 years ago when it would have run you 60k, but still not cheap.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:51 pm to Cosmo
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Rebar reinforced concrete or gtfo
No need for rebar in a driveway...6 gauge wire mesh is enough..
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:53 pm to stout
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Wait until one of those companies come around that "had a little left over from another job"
They are totally trustworthy.
This guy knows of what he speaks.
Those asshats are here in AL and pulling the same scam.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 9:57 pm to sasquatch69
I put some geotextile fabric down with creek gravel and some crushed limestone on top. Drove on it for 3 years and then paved it with asphalt. Had it for about 5 years now with no problems. It is 12' wide and 1200' long and cost $8500 to pave. Looked into concrete but for the length of my drive if you didn't use a machine to apply the concrete it would not be perfectly level to drive over smoothly.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:00 pm to highcotton2
Amazes me the people who don't do that, they'll just keep piling rock up and let it sink.
Wovens are cheap and work well.
Wovens are cheap and work well.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:04 pm to sasquatch69
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Asphalt>concrete
Lol
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:07 pm to Big Pun
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Wovens are cheap and work well.
Really? Been pricing it around and it looks like $500 for just 300'.
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:19 pm to fishfighter
What area ?
Are you putting heavy equipment on it?
Are you putting heavy equipment on it?
Posted on 3/26/15 at 10:21 pm to sasquatch69
I've crushed many faces on it
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