A long herringbone drive to the barn garage
Front drive, Larch Lane
Lay sheetJob 261002
- Area
- 2,350 sq ft
- Pattern
- 90° herringbone
- Pavers
- 4×8 in, clay blend
- Area
- 2,350 sq ft
- Time
- 6 days
- Cost
- $58,400 all in
Booking spring installs
Paving & stone · Holloway Mills, PA
Driveways that stay flat.
Paver and asphalt drives, patios, walks and Belgian block aprons, laid by our own crew on eight inches of compacted stone, with a written estimate before we dig and a ten-year warranty after.
- a sq ft for a paver drive
- $18–$34
- of compacted base, always
- 8 in
- workmanship warranty
- 10 years
What we lay
Every kind of drive, one crew
From a herringbone paver drive to a fresh coat of sealer on the asphalt: six kinds of work, all dug, laid and swept by our own people.
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How a drive goes in
From the string lines to the last swept joint
Every drive we lay goes in the same way, stage by stage, and you see each one before the next starts. Most of the work is under the pavers.
Prices →- 01
Stake it out
811 called for buried lines, the edges staked and string lines pulled at the finished height, falling away from the house.
- 02
Dig it out
The old drive and the soil taken down to firm ground, about eleven inches for a drive, and the ground compacted.
- 03
Build the base
Eight inches of crushed stone, spread and compacted in two-inch lifts with a plate compactor, checked with the string lines.
- 04
Screed the sand
An inch of bedding sand screeded flat between two rails, never walked on once it is level.
- 05
Lay the pavers
Laid from a straight line in your pattern, cut to the edges, the joints staggered so no four corners meet.
- 06
Lock it in
The border course set in its edge restraint, the drive compacted, the joints swept full of polymeric sand and wetted.
Projects
Laid this year, lay sheet and all
A few jobs from this year: what we laid, how big it was, how long it took, what it cost, and the lay sheet the crew worked from.
A new asphalt drive with a Belgian block apron
Front drive, Pell Road
Lay sheetJob 260821
- Area
- 1,420 sq ft
- Surface
- 2 in hot-mix asphalt
- Base
- 6 in, 2A stone
- Area
- 1,420 sq ft
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $16,900 all in
A permeable courtyard by the creek
Barn courtyard, Mill Race Road
Lay sheetJob 260612
- Area
- 960 sq ft
- Pavers
- 24×24 in, permeable
- Joints
- ASTM No. 8 chip
- Area
- 960 sq ft
- Time
- 5 days
- Cost
- $27,300 all in
- paving in Holloway Mills since
- 1994
- drives, patios and walks laid
- 1,900+
- pavers and operators, all ours
- 9
- of compacted stone under every drive
- 8 in
- workmanship warranty
- 10 yrs
Where the crews go
Kessler Paving & Stone 418 Quarry Road Holloway Mills, PAThe trucks leave the yard on Quarry Road at seven. We pave in Holloway Mills and every town within twenty kilometres, from the first thaw in March until the ground freezes.
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Guides
Notes from the job site
Your paver drive’s first winter
Salt, plows, shovels and the sand in the joints: what to do and what to skip the first winter after we lay your drive.
Pavers, asphalt or concrete?
What each costs, how long it lasts and what it asks of you, from the crew that lays all three.
When and how to seal pavers
Whether your pavers need sealing at all, when to do it, which sealer, and how to keep the joints full.
Care notes, four times a year
Short notes from Dan: when to sweep in fresh sand, what rock salt does to pavers, and when a drive is due for sealing.
Cracked, sunken or just worn out? Let’s measure it up.
Tell us what you’d like laid or fixed and send a photo if you have one. We’ll come out, measure the drive, check how the water runs and leave you a written estimate.
