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Joseph Meehan Joseph Meehan is offline
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Default Brick pavers over old driveway?

wrote:
My driveway is wearing and I want to replace it with interlocking
brick. Can I avoid tearing up the pavement and use this as the base
(re-tamp again) for the sand then brick? Tearing up of pavement would
be a hard task for an old timer like myself. Disposing of the old
pavement would be equally as hard on a fixed income. This will be a
DIY project.

Thank you


Well you did not tell us what your current drive is made if. I have
seen gravel, concrete, asphalt, etc.

My question is have you considered that you would be adding the at least
a couple inches of sand plus the height of the brick. Do you want your
drive that much higher? I would also want to make sure you have good
drainage through the drive. From here I can't tell. :-)

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