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.
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.