Does anyone have a rough figure to calculate the cost of laying a new tarmac drive, per sq mtr? The substrate is firm, stoney clay. It won't have heavy use; just a car driving over it two or four times a day. The shallow topsoil will need scraping off, and then 4" of graded limestone hardcore, then compacted, followed by tarmac. And the whole thing will be about 35 mtrs long, in case that's a factor.

Many thanks,
JD

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Does anyone have a rough figure to calculate the cost of laying a new
tarmac drive, per sq mtr? The substrate is firm, stoney clay. It
won't have heavy use; just a car driving over it two or four times a
day. The shallow topsoil will need scraping off, and then 4" of
graded limestone hardcore, then compacted, followed by tarmac. And
the whole thing will be about 35 mtrs long, in case that's a factor.

Last time I checked, it was about £60 per metre.

35 metres by how many metres? - you'll get it a bit cheaper if there's 100m2
or more

On 14/05/2016 11:09, wrote:
Does anyone have a rough figure to calculate the cost of laying a new
tarmac drive, per sq mtr? The substrate is firm, stoney clay. It
won't have heavy use; just a car driving over it two or four times a
day. The shallow topsoil will need scraping off, and then 4" of
graded limestone hardcore, then compacted, followed by tarmac. And
the whole thing will be about 35 mtrs long, in case that's a factor.

There are some guidelines on cost he

http://www.pavingexpert.com/tarmac01.htm




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Sorry to jump on this thread but I have a related question. We have a red tarmac drive where during building work they had to cut some channels out to lay pipes. These channels have been filled with concrete. Drive is around 300m2

Would we have to pay for the current tarmac/ concrete to be removed and then looking at circa £60 / m2 to lay the tarmac or can they patch/ cover the existing?

thanks

Lee.

wrote:
Sorry to jump on this thread but I have a related question. We have
a red tarmac drive where during building work they had to cut some
channels out to lay pipes. These channels have been filled with
concrete. Drive is around 300m2

Would we have to pay for the current tarmac/ concrete to be removed
and then looking at circa £60 / m2 to lay the tarmac or can they
patch/ cover the existing?

You could find someone to patch it over with red tarmac, but I can garuantee
it won't only be £60 per m2, ring a few asphalt / tarmac contractors from
the yellow pages, someone will offer red tarmac

On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1:40:50 PM UTC+1, Phil L wrote:
wrote:
Sorry to jump on this thread but I have a related question. We have
a red tarmac drive where during building work they had to cut some
channels out to lay pipes. These channels have been filled with
concrete. Drive is around 300m2

Would we have to pay for the current tarmac/ concrete to be removed
and then looking at circa £60 / m2 to lay the tarmac or can they
patch/ cover the existing?

You could find someone to patch it over with red tarmac, but I can garuantee
it won't only be £60 per m2, ring a few asphalt / tarmac contractors from
the yellow pages, someone will offer red tarmac

Thanks Phil. When they patch it would the result be the same as you see the water companies et al patching the road? i.e. obvious where the new patch is with a tar seal around it?

wrote:
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1:40:50 PM UTC+1, Phil L wrote:
wrote:
Sorry to jump on this thread but I have a related question. We have
a red tarmac drive where during building work they had to cut some
channels out to lay pipes. These channels have been filled with
concrete. Drive is around 300m2

Would we have to pay for the current tarmac/ concrete to be removed
and then looking at circa £60 / m2 to lay the tarmac or can they
patch/ cover the existing?

You could find someone to patch it over with red tarmac, but I can
garuantee it won't only be £60 per m2, ring a few asphalt / tarmac
contractors from the yellow pages, someone will offer red tarmac

Thanks Phil. When they patch it would the result be the same as you
see the water companies et al patching the road? i.e. obvious where
the new patch is with a tar seal around it?

I should imagine it will be fairly obvious even if they don't prime the
edges with bitumen, the new tarmac will be brand new and the old stuff will
be discoloured with age

On 17/05/2016 15:11, wrote:
Thanks Phil. When they patch it would the result be the same as you
see the water companies et al patching the road? i.e. obvious where
the new patch is with a tar seal around it?

I wish the road repairs in my neck of the wood were properly tar sealed
like that. So many are just a spit of tarmac, roughly bashed into the
broken surface. Rain, frost, or just being used means they last
considerably less time than the wait for them to have been repaired in
the first place.

[To be fair, some of the official 'utility' repairs are done reasonably
well.]

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Rod