Id like to add some room for parking. I was wondering what are my best options. Price is a big factor as id like to do this on the cheap.Id like to extend my driveway from the edge of my garage to the edge of the house. its about 500 sq feet give or take as it is an odd shape.
I want to do this as cheap as possible but not fall apart on me.I think blacktop is way to expensive .Someone mentioned using the patio type bricks? I have them between my driveway and sidewalk and they hold up well.You can see them in first picI would need stone and digging i believe still.
Here is a pic of where i want done
I also need to fill in between my driveway and street. It dips to low and im afraid my vette will scrape its turbos. Its only a small amount but it needs to ease into the street better.I want this to last also. Im not sure if any company would do such a small job for blacktop?
Any “paver” product will need a deep sub base and sand over top before pavers. Blacktop will not last as long as concrete and isn’t that much cheaper these days. I believe you can buy bags of cold patch and do the end of your driveway yourself. There really isn’t a “cheap” paving solution. If there was, the inventor would be silly rich. My opinion, go concrete. I can recommend the guy who did my driveway.
^ This. The only way to do pavers cheap is to skimp on the base at which point they’ve never hold up to the weight of vehicles when the ground gets soggy.
End of the driveway: Bust out the old with a rented buster and rent a home depot dump to haul it to swift river / united materials. Then pour new concrete. (won’t be bad if the current already has proper base stone)
Top of the driveway: pavers are decorative. Using them for a drive is like paying someone at a factory to make you a 1000 tiny driveways, then paying someone to shop them all to you without fucking them up and THEN crawling around on your knees to install them because you hate youself.
Sorry to hijack but im looking to widen one of my driveways in N. Buffalo by about a 1.5 feet on each side and based on some brief research, thought pavers seemed like the easiest, and cheapest options. Granted im just lining each side of the driveway and OP was actually making a whole patch, I priced mine out to be just under $200 after bricks, gravel and stone.
Am I missing something here? Figured I need 200 bricks @ .60 a piece from the depot and then sand and gravel is pretty cheap right?
If you dig it out properly sand and gravel base actually add up quick. You will also need to rent a plate compactor or the bricks will most definitely settle poorly.
I hand tamped the base for an above ground pool when I was younger. It sucked but it worked. The evenly applied pressure of a pool is a whole lot different than the concentrated pressure points 4 car tires apply though.
