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Our asphalt driveway is 30 years old, and it has a very high rounded concrete curb at the end. DW is tired of (sometimes) scraping the front of her car on the curb, and with a new car on the horizon, she's adamant we fix the curb - not unreasonable.
So we have a concrete guy lined up to cut down the curb, but we have to re-slope the end of the driveway too. But he only puts down concrete, he subs out asphalt.
We just got a quote based on removing the old asphalt, putting down aggregate and grading and then putting down new asphalt to 2½" after compacting (residential code thickness here). To do the whole 18x42 driveway they quoted $2700, to do the last 9x18 feet (as many in the neighborhood have done) they quoted $2200. I understand they have minimums to cover fixed costs, travel costs, etc. - but it sounds like they're deliberately quoting high on the smaller job to induce us to do the whole driveway. They might pave over the existing driveway at lower cost, but that remains to be seen, and I assume longevity will be far inferior if we do that.
I wish we had a concrete driveway, but that would cost at least twice as much from what I can gather, and one very casual estimate. And we'd have to stay off it for 2 weeks, vs 2-3 days for asphalt. We might put up with that if this was our forever home, but it's definitely not.
There seems to be wisdom/experience on almost any subject here. TIA if you can advise.
So we have a concrete guy lined up to cut down the curb, but we have to re-slope the end of the driveway too. But he only puts down concrete, he subs out asphalt.
We just got a quote based on removing the old asphalt, putting down aggregate and grading and then putting down new asphalt to 2½" after compacting (residential code thickness here). To do the whole 18x42 driveway they quoted $2700, to do the last 9x18 feet (as many in the neighborhood have done) they quoted $2200. I understand they have minimums to cover fixed costs, travel costs, etc. - but it sounds like they're deliberately quoting high on the smaller job to induce us to do the whole driveway. They might pave over the existing driveway at lower cost, but that remains to be seen, and I assume longevity will be far inferior if we do that.
I wish we had a concrete driveway, but that would cost at least twice as much from what I can gather, and one very casual estimate. And we'd have to stay off it for 2 weeks, vs 2-3 days for asphalt. We might put up with that if this was our forever home, but it's definitely not.
There seems to be wisdom/experience on almost any subject here. TIA if you can advise.
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