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Sean-B

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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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28th May 13 at 08:09

Going to be getting some quotes but just after ball park figures. So how much did you pay? Pref with a pic of the size of your drive

This is my drive. Pretty much want the lot doing

Thanks

[Edited on 28-05-2013 by Sean-B]

Nismo

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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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28th May 13 at 12:51

I dont know a lot about tarmacing or anything related to ground works but it seems you're drive runs back down to the house, you will need some pretty good drainage there then?

Gary

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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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28th May 13 at 12:57

My dad is paying for someone to level his drive of around the same size and lay block paving (already has teh paving)

Total bill: 5k

Yours wont be that much but will need drainage installing etc so a couple of k easy

Toby

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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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28th May 13 at 14:08

Folks paid some pikeys about £2.5k for this about 7 years ago. They haven't done the best job but it was to be expected and would have said it was good value.

edit: may have been 3k actually but that included all hardcore and weed proofing.

[Edited on 28-05-2013 by Toby]

pow

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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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28th May 13 at 20:15

Deffo are going to need some drainage to run into there... before we had our drive done at home our garage used to fill up with water

Got a drainage row in it now

AndyKent

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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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28th May 13 at 20:42

Plain tarmac is a bit estate-y for my taste. Prefer what you have which also deals with the water.

deano87

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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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28th May 13 at 21:25

Can you actually get non-pikeys to do this sort of thing?

IvIarkgraham

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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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29th May 13 at 02:10

his current drive is more estate-y than what he wants.

you might be better to do as much as you can yourself

dig down about 8" and fill with crush n run

pikeys probably wont do it properly and it will sink within months

Toby

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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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29th May 13 at 06:12

quote:
Originally posted by deano87
Can you actually get non-pikeys to do this sort of thing?

I guess it depends on your definition.

The guys that did the drive were a found through friends of friends. They took cash upon completion and didn't have any sort of office/registered address or even company name. That would be my definition.

While most road crews are pikeys in the sense they are Irish and have a travellers background, the companies that quoted almost double the price paid were legitimate companies.

RichR

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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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29th May 13 at 08:17

quote:
Originally posted by deano87
Can you actually get non-pikeys to do this sort of thing?

yes, if you want to.

There's a firm around my way which most people use because they're on the council's list of approved contractors for drop kerbs so it makes sense to use them to do the drive at the same time as dropping the kerb and pavement etc.

Russ

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Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
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29th May 13 at 08:26

my sister (in wolves) is getting hers paved by 'dave the pave'

soon

baza31

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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: yorkshire
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29th May 13 at 08:55

its not a hard job to do , just watch them do the job to make sure its done right . if they start skimping tell them to put it right before the next stage

Toby

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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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29th May 13 at 10:05

And how would your average Joe know that it's not been done correctly?

Rob_Quads

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Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: southampton
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29th May 13 at 14:00

The biggest thing people do to cut corners is not using enough of each level. This is easy to check while they are doing it i.e. before filling was there really a 300mm whole? Did they put down 200mm of hardcore? (insert the right numbers - quick google will get you them)

All fairly simple to check.

Russ

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Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
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12th Jul 13 at 18:01

my sisters in now down mate if you want some pictures

ChazSXi

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Waterlooville, Hampshire
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12th Jul 13 at 18:55

I'd personally skip Tarmac. We had a few quotes and a decent job came out as pricey as the Woburn rumbled we went for

1.0 12v povey

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Registered: 8th Sep 12
Location: Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire
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12th Jul 13 at 19:08

dad paid 150 to tarmac his drive fell apart with in a week

ChazSXi

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Waterlooville, Hampshire
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12th Jul 13 at 19:10

quote:
Originally posted by 1.0 12v povey
dad paid 150 to tarmac his drive fell apart with in a week

For £150 that was inevitable, our drive cost £4k.

1.0 12v povey

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Registered: 8th Sep 12
Location: Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire
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12th Jul 13 at 19:18

it cost him about that in the end to get rid of the second hand road scrapings get it level and new tarmac put down

baza31

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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: yorkshire
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12th Jul 13 at 23:36

quote:
Originally posted by ChazSXi
I'd personally skip Tarmac. We had a few quotes and a decent job came out as pricey as the Woburn rumbled we went for

That looks good

ChazSXi

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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Waterlooville, Hampshire
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13th Jul 13 at 07:20

Here are two others to show size

[Edited on 13-07-2013 by ChazSXi]

Toby

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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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13th Jul 13 at 08:38

depends if your turning a lot on the drive way or not which i doubt the OP would be in this case.

kennySRi

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Registered: 12th Nov 10
Location: Lancashire
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13th Jul 13 at 17:21

I used the same bricks as Chaz. It's around twice the size of his and even doing it all ourselves it cost £2k.

Really wouldn't bother with Tarmac if funds allowed it to be block paved.

Brett

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