Road surfacing cost?

[d000hg]

We have a 80m private road up to our house. Confusingly it belongs to the council but they insist upkeep is our responsibility - our house used to be a mine-manager house so historically it was owned by the coal board.

It was last surfaced about 10 years ago and the previous owner god road planings or whatever the term is, ground up road-surface which was then rollered. It's now pretty knackered and turning into a rutted dirt track.

I've heard horror stories about how much this costs but the road near us was recently resurfaced - cut away the surface and re-lay. And the council re-did the very bottom of our drive after roadworks damaged it - dug out 4", laid a base layer then tarmac on top. In both cases I was amazed how quickly this was done. 20m of our drive took maybe half a day in total and they surfaced probably 50m of road in a day. Based on the number of people the labour cost couldn't have been extreme, I reckon our whole road might only be a day, maybe 2.

How much reasonably might this cost to do properly? Do the materials themselves cost a bomb or do companies have a captive market?

The road itself gets just a handful of cars a day plus the odd lorry if we have a delivery from the builder's merchant or whatever.

 

[Iamchamps]

Traffic management, Labour, materials and equipment all add up. Just off my head I would say between 5-10k

 

[d000hg]

It's a private drive/road - no traffic to manage. I can appreciate some of the equipment is pretty specialist but 5 people for two days (say) is only costing someone about £1000-1500 in labour. Of course the company wants a profit on top and maybe they run high margins as it's a specialist job.

 

[Notch7]

It's a private drive/road - no traffic to manage. I can appreciate some of the equipment is pretty specialist but 5 people for two days (say) is only costing someone about £1000-1500 in labour. Of course the company wants a profit on top and maybe they run high margins as it's a specialist job.

Bitmac needs heavy machinery, so you wont be able to judge pricing on labour cost. It probably costs £500 just to deliver and collect the plant.

Our little industrial estate was resurfaced about 10 years ago. I think it cost about £20k. Prepared in one day, laid in one day.

 

[d000hg]

Fair point. Maybe I'll have to look into other options.

Does this mean though that once they're on site, the cost to do a bit extra should be small? The council has the due to resurface the junction of our private road to the main road after everything else is done and if it's a private contractor I wonder if I can discuss this with them.

 

[Notch7]

Fair point. Maybe I'll have to look into other options.

Does this mean though that once they're on site, the cost to do a bit extra should be small? The council has the due to resurface the junction of our private road to the main road after everything else is done and if it's a private contractor I wonder if I can discuss this with them.

A few years back, my parents cul de sac of 6 houses had water meters fitted. The neighbours managed to get the private road surface contractor to an additional section of road. I think they did it on a Saturday......so go and have chat with the foreman, you might get lucky!

 

[scbk]

For the use it gets I would just maintain what's there.
Get a lorry load of road planings when they are working locally, then a digger, roller, dumper and operator for a day. £500-£1000