Installing a new Driveway
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | Cool Stuff
For the last few months, we have been parking our cars on the grass in our front yard because of a plumbing leak that occurred under our previous crushed lime stone driveway. In an attempt to somewhat modernize our home, we decided to go with a new asphalt driveway as apposed to going back with limestone after the plumbing was fixed.
First things first, was to have a driveway company come out and give me an estimate on what the asphalt driveway cost would be. Turns out, that it was not as expensive as I had first thought it might be.
The contractor who gave us the bid wanted to remove the existing limestone and come back with a fresh layer or cliche rock and compact it til it was nice and level. After this point they will bring in a fresh trailer load of crushed asphalt and lay it over the top of the cliche.
On most small jobs the contractor told me that they normally charge an extra 150 dollars for the use of the roller, however since they were doing another job only 1/2 a mile away at the same time, he was able to give it to us at no extra charge.
After everything was said and done, we came out with our asphalt driveway costing us less than 4 dollars a squar foot. This price was less than half of what we would have paid for a concrete driveway. If you want to go nice and inexpensive, I would recommend having an asphalt driveway installed, and save some money.
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