I live on a private lane - at the front of it. That means all cars and
other traffic going up it to fields and my neighbours house go over my bit
of lane / drive to get there.

Water floods of the fields and has left giant pot holes in my lane.

Its got to the stage where delivery men and skip hire lorries and other
services I might use will not cross the lane to my drive. They say it is too
poor a state and they cannot cross it. I have lost two exhausts bumping
over the pot holes.

So , I ordered up men to come and fix it. They were going to take out the
lane, level the pot holes and fill with hardcore and cover with tarmac.

In the event, and sods law , my neighbour who owns a field at the top of
the lane seems to have also ordered workmen for today to bring her 20 lorry
loads of hardcore, gravel and sand to build a sand school for her horses in
the field at the top of the lane. She has not told me she was doing this.

Consequently my job has not been done prop erly. The men could not work
because of the constant interruption of lorries, tractors, cars and an
assortment of other vehicles using the lane.

Is there a quick fix for a bumpy patch of tarmac which has been rolled over
by all and saundry and churned up before it was set?

All I wanted was a driveway that I could bring my car over without having
too many bumps.

In article ,
"lynd" says...
I live on a private lane - at the front of it. That means all cars and
other traffic going up it to fields and my neighbours house go over my bit
of lane / drive to get there.

Water floods of the fields and has left giant pot holes in my lane.

Its got to the stage where delivery men and skip hire lorries and other
services I might use will not cross the lane to my drive. They say it is too
poor a state and they cannot cross it. I have lost two exhausts bumping
over the pot holes.

So , I ordered up men to come and fix it. They were going to take out the
lane, level the pot holes and fill with hardcore and cover with tarmac.

In the event, and sods law , my neighbour who owns a field at the top of
the lane seems to have also ordered workmen for today to bring her 20 lorry
loads of hardcore, gravel and sand to build a sand school for her horses in
the field at the top of the lane. She has not told me she was doing this.

Consequently my job has not been done prop erly. The men could not work
because of the constant interruption of lorries, tractors, cars and an
assortment of other vehicles using the lane.

Is there a quick fix for a bumpy patch of tarmac which has been rolled over
by all and saundry and churned up before it was set?

Nick one of those giant planing machines from a nearby road
resurfacing site?

All I wanted was a driveway that I could bring my car over without having
too many bumps.

Would probably have been better to use crushed limestone to level it
out. Or at least to discuss the work with the other residents (on
what is presumably the only access to their properties).

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:41:12 +0000 (UTC), "lynd"
wrote:

I live on a private lane - at the front of it. That means all cars and
other traffic going up it to fields and my neighbours house go over my bit
of lane / drive to get there.

Water floods of the fields and has left giant pot holes in my lane.

Its got to the stage where delivery men and skip hire lorries and other
services I might use will not cross the lane to my drive. They say it is too
poor a state and they cannot cross it. I have lost two exhausts bumping
over the pot holes.

So , I ordered up men to come and fix it. They were going to take out the
lane, level the pot holes and fill with hardcore and cover with tarmac.

In the event, and sods law , my neighbour who owns a field at the top of
the lane seems to have also ordered workmen for today to bring her 20 lorry
loads of hardcore, gravel and sand to build a sand school for her horses in
the field at the top of the lane. She has not told me she was doing this.

Consequently my job has not been done prop erly. The men could not work
because of the constant interruption of lorries, tractors, cars and an
assortment of other vehicles using the lane.

Is there a quick fix for a bumpy patch of tarmac which has been rolled over
by all and saundry and churned up before it was set?

All I wanted was a driveway that I could bring my car over without having
too many bumps.


I would imagine there should be some sort of collective arrangment for
care of the lane. I would further imagine that the deeds to your house
would reveal more on this subject.

I would have simply put a waggon of crushed brick into the holes - the
cheepskate solution.

Rick