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If you mean put in a concrete driveway yourself, it's not trivial.
Plus you have to take out and dispose of the old one. How old is the
driveway that's in place now ?

My driveway is 60 years old and looks like the surface of a croissant,
having broken into about 20 pieces...


Tony wrote:
My concrete driveway has tons of holes and pock marks that fill with
water every time it rains. It
looks terrible. How hard is it for me to put in a concrete driveway? I
have a book of Home Repair
that tells about laying a good foundation and all that but is there
anything else I need to know?

I live on Long Island and it is currently around 65 degrees. Winters are
normally around the 30s or
40s with some colder days thrown in. Is there some special mixture I need
to know about. Any
suggestions on what concrete to use? Any (constructive) help is
appreciated.

If you have never laid or finished concrete before, forget about it. Don't
believe me? Start with a single sidewalk-square size slab as a test, say in
the back yard to hold a birdbath. See how tired you are at the end of it.
Then do the math, comparing the size of that square to the size of your
driveway. Even if you get premix, and do it half or a third at a time, once
that truck shows up, you are moving until the pour is done, and the drivers
are not known for being patient while you spread it out. A driveway is a
multi-man job, with people who have been working together for awhile in most
cases. And like the other guy said, what are you going to do with the old
driveway, even assuming you can break it up yourself?

Some jobs are just so much easier with the right tools (air-powered
jackhammer, bobcat, dump trucks, rotary finisher, etc) that is dumb to try
to do them yourselves. You will save little or no money, and you will not be
happy with the results. I might consider doing formed steps or a walkway as
a DIY, but any flatwork that takes multiple yards of concrete is time to
call the pros, IMHO.

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