Extend existing tarmac driveway
Discussion
Hello, as title suggests I want to extend my driveway across the front of my house to create more parking.
Existing is a dark red / brown colour tarmac driveway on one side up to the under house garage and sweeping around to middle of house for front door.
I want to make it the width of the property to allow for parking for 2 more cars.
What are my options?
Cheapest I guess would be two parking spaces on a hard core base with shingle on top?
I have a lot of left over concrete patio slabs - could I lay those down on a good sub base and deal with the tarmac to slab aesthetic mismatch?
Or lay the concrete slabs and then “paint over” the slabs and tarmac in one colour with a thick “refinishing” compound and hope it looks uniform?
Or get a surfacing company to lay new tarmac for the new parking and skim over the old tarmac to link up and look like it was always one like that?
I guess these are in order of cost - but any clever suggestions to get it done economically?
Will try drop a pic of two to explain
Existing is a dark red / brown colour tarmac driveway on one side up to the under house garage and sweeping around to middle of house for front door.
I want to make it the width of the property to allow for parking for 2 more cars.
What are my options?
Cheapest I guess would be two parking spaces on a hard core base with shingle on top?
I have a lot of left over concrete patio slabs - could I lay those down on a good sub base and deal with the tarmac to slab aesthetic mismatch?
Or lay the concrete slabs and then “paint over” the slabs and tarmac in one colour with a thick “refinishing” compound and hope it looks uniform?
Or get a surfacing company to lay new tarmac for the new parking and skim over the old tarmac to link up and look like it was always one like that?
I guess these are in order of cost - but any clever suggestions to get it done economically?
Will try drop a pic of two to explain
We had a patchwork of surfaces similar to you and eventually but the bullet and laid down permeable paving across the whole area.
We moved shortly afterwards but it needed doing, I reckon it might have been so jarring if we didn’t do it it would have put people off.
What is your budget and can you do the whole lot in one go? It would transform the space and you might find once it’s all keyed in you need less hard space than you have now and could get away with more (cheaper) lawn space as we did.
We moved shortly afterwards but it needed doing, I reckon it might have been so jarring if we didn’t do it it would have put people off.
What is your budget and can you do the whole lot in one go? It would transform the space and you might find once it’s all keyed in you need less hard space than you have now and could get away with more (cheaper) lawn space as we did.
Personally I'd try and steer clear of gravel, we have a gravel drive and I hate the bloody thing. The gravel gets everywhere, continually bring bits of it indoors as gets stuck in tread of shoes, Working on the cars is a nightmare for jacking etc (probably not an issue in your case as you have some hardstanding)
I'd be looking at some sort of slabs in your position
I'd be looking at some sort of slabs in your position
What’s the longer term plan? Keeping the house or selling it? And what’s cash flow like.
Ripping up the grass, layer of road stone, then a base layer of tarmac and then a wearing layer of tarmac over everything is the most expensive most long lasting and best looking. Alternatively dig it out, fill with road stone compact and put gravel or slabs on it. Then in due course remove gravel or slabs and tarmac
Ripping up the grass, layer of road stone, then a base layer of tarmac and then a wearing layer of tarmac over everything is the most expensive most long lasting and best looking. Alternatively dig it out, fill with road stone compact and put gravel or slabs on it. Then in due course remove gravel or slabs and tarmac
996Type said:
We had a patchwork of surfaces similar to you and eventually but the bullet and laid down permeable paving across the whole area.
We moved shortly afterwards but it needed doing, I reckon it might have been so jarring if we didn’t do it it would have put people off.
What is your budget and can you do the whole lot in one go? It would transform the space and you might find once it’s all keyed in you need less hard space than you have now and could get away with more (cheaper) lawn space as we did.
What sort of permeable paving? Slabs with open joints? We moved shortly afterwards but it needed doing, I reckon it might have been so jarring if we didn’t do it it would have put people off.
What is your budget and can you do the whole lot in one go? It would transform the space and you might find once it’s all keyed in you need less hard space than you have now and could get away with more (cheaper) lawn space as we did.
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