How to Create or Replace Your Driveway!

Putting in a driveway is not an easy job, nor is relaying or resurfacing one. There are literally hundreds of different surface types, colours and techniques so it’s hard to know where to start.

Do-it-Yourself or Use Professionals?

We’ve written Driveway Expert as a resource for anyone who wants to build, replace, repair or maintain a driveway in the United Kingdom. The information contained in the articles on this website will allow a competent DIY fan to lay their own driveway. We’re honest about the surfaces that really should be left to the professionals and those that you can lay yourself.

You’ll also find information here to help people who definitely won’t be doing their own drive and will be hiring a firm to do it for them instead. Let’s face it, that’s most of us. And if you’re in that situation, the more you know, the less likely you are to be caught out by shoddy workmanship and unprofessional firms.

If you haven’t yet decided whether to DIY or pay someone else to do it for you, the expert articles here will help you decide.

Huge Variety of Surfaces and Materials

When it comes to laying a new driveway the first you need to know is how to identify the different surfaces, how to prepare them and lay them. We explore the different qualities that the various surfaces have so that you can decide which material is the right one for you. Once you've laid your brand new drive it's important to keep it well maintained but don't worry we've got that covered too!

Getting the Basics Right in the First Place

Much of the work planning and preparing for a driveway is the same regardless of the type of material you or the contractor will be using. There’s dealing with regulation and planning for a start, although unless you live in a conservation area or similar region, where there are restrictions on building, in most cases you can do what you like. Although this has changed somewhat in recent years with the realisation that hardstandings on urban gardens are contributing to the flooding problems and raising the ambient temperature in our towns and cites. This has meant that more people in towns now have to apply forplanning permission for driveways.

The layout of the drive, planning it and marking out, catering for gradients and ensuring that the slopes will drain rainwater away are all vital ingredients to ensuring a properly laid drive. We take you though what you need to know and how you need to do it as well as looking at the more specialist drainage solutions that are required for more difficult sites.

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