On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:57:59 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 9/18/2018 9:44 PM, KH wrote:
I had a asphalt driveway installed yesterday.* I stopped home during my
lunch
to check on the progress to find them installing the driveway in the
middle fo
a gigantic downpour.* Later, when I came home, I noticed that the
surface is
uneven and there are a lot of areas that I can see uneven stripes. (mainly
down the middle...but not like it was intentional).* Some of the
driveway is
nice and smooth, other parts are super rough with bigger rocks (too
rough for
the kids to be able to draw with chalk...if that makes sense).* I see other
black asphalt driveways that look nice and even...so I don't feel like
this is
right.* Is a driveway supposed to be paved in a downpour???



I've seen it done in light rain, but not in the downpours like we had
today. Sounds like a sloppy job and you have legitimate complaint.

When I was a kid, my dad had a concrete driveway installed. They poured
the top part one day and that part was good. The next day they did the
remaining part, (about 30 feet). It poured and they just did a half
assed troweling, then covered it with a tarp, but by the time they got
the tarp on, the surface was washed off and it left a very rough surface
with lots of rocks exposed, and dents where the guys tossed bricks on
top of the tarp to hold it down. My dad refused to pay them, and they
had to come back and break away all that bad cement and replace it. I
imagine asphalt would end up bad too...