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Looking for recommendations for someone to sort out our driveway which is full of potholes.

As its a shared driveway with the 2 other steadings we are looking for a company to replace/repair the driveway as a hard driveway or possibly replace with tarmac (which comes with its challenges of convincing one of the neighbours).

Any recommendations of firms appreciated.

George

No recommendations, but I am about to get my 150m driveway done (hopefully this week or next) which is really a farm road and is being "re-graded" ie some big machine skims the top off it to level and shape it, then lots of hardcore of various sizes to repackage it all, then a steamroller (doubt it will be real steam) to crush/flatten it. Being done by Geddes Contractors who build proper roads and is costing about 1/25th the quotes for doing it in tarmac so make sure your neighbours are sitting down when you mention the T- word

I am looking at similar Jim but probably 250 metres.

If you do not mind sharing could you pm me your quote please.

tut

I think our shared driveway is about 75m before it comes onto our driveway (tarmac'd thankfully). For the hard driveway we got a quote of £3k, tarmac was £8.4k.

However the people who quoted on the hard driveway also did the car park at our local reservoir and its starting to break up after a couple of weeks, so wanting a firm which is reputable rather than spending couple k every 2 years.

George

I am looking at about £1k (may be vat on that, depends on who they put on the job and may be + another £300 if they need another grade of hardcore) for the regrading where as Tarmac to the proper road spec was looking to be about £20-25k dependent on the width and edge spec.

I would jump at that Jim if I could find someone up here to do it.

tut

Get a quote from sievwright bros tut, they're just along the road for you and are the best you'll get. Be prepared, done properly, that will be a lot of money.

Previous owner had a tarmac quote from them of £26K back in 2010.

tut

You can buy tar planning at £25 a ton and then put them into any pothole and then tamp it down

But whatever you do after tamping it into the pothole don't accidentally spill diesel on it

As that would make the tar planning go soft an squidgy and it would form a decent temporary repair

We had 1100 metres of shared tarmac driveway repaired and resurfaced about 4 years ago.
The best quote was from the council as they planned it with a crew who were in the area at the same time. Job took 2 days and its still in excellent condition today.

I was going to suggest try the council. They do the work to a high or at least known standard and are surprisingly competitive.

kerryxeg wrote:I was going to suggest try the council. They do the work to a high or at least known standard and are surprisingly competitive.

Must be different standards up there to down here. A bunch of primary one children would do more work and to a higher standard than your average Glasgow City Council worker.

Dominic wrote:

kerryxeg wrote:I was going to suggest try the council. They do the work to a high or at least known standard and are surprisingly competitive.

Must be different standards up there to down here. A bunch of primary one children would do more work and to a higher standard than your average Glasgow City Council worker.

... And they would use better materials. Plasticine and Playdough are harder wearing than the stuff they fill potholes with

renmure wrote:I am looking at about £1k (may be vat on that, depends on who they put on the job and may be + another £300 if they need another grade of hardcore) for the regrading where as Tarmac to the proper road spec was looking to be about £20-25k dependent on the width and edge spec.

Stripey curbs and tarmac. You know it makes sense. Add some corners.

Dominic wrote:

kerryxeg wrote:I was going to suggest try the council. They do the work to a high or at least known standard and are surprisingly competitive.

Must be different standards up there to down here. A bunch of primary one children would do more work and to a higher standard than your average Glasgow City Council worker.

You might be right for your area, although its not done by the pothole filler with the bag of soft tar. They did a friends house as they were lowest cost and it was proper kerbs, prepared correctly with hardcore and a good thickness of tar. The end result was effectively that of a new road. The I actually don't understand why the council do these jobs, given they already outsource so much but there must be some logic.