Front drive, Larch Lane ·
A long herringbone drive to the barn garage
A cracked asphalt drive under two old maples, 180 feet from the road to a white barn garage. Out it came, and in went a herringbone drive that the roots and the frost can’t crack.
- What we did
- Old asphalt out, 11 in dug, 8 in of base, clay-blend pavers in 90° herringbone with a charcoal soldier border, a turnaround by the garage
- Area
- 2,350 sq ft
- Time
- 6 days
- Cost
- $58,400 all in
The old asphalt had been patched so often it was more patch than drive, and the maples on both sides had lifted it into ridges. The owners wanted something that would last, look at home next to a barn, and that could be fixed in a morning if a root ever pushed it up again.
Days one and two the asphalt came out and we dug eleven inches down, keeping the big roots and bridging them with stone. Days three and four went into the base, eight inches in four compacted lifts, with a fall to the ditch at the road. On day five the pavers went down from a string line along the centre, and on day six the border course and the edge restraint went in, the drive was compacted, and the joints were swept full of sand.
Lay sheetJob 261002
- Area
- 2,350 sq ft
- Pattern
- 90° herringbone
- Pavers
- 4×8 in, clay blend
- Border
- Charcoal soldier course
- Base
- 8 in, 2A stone, 4 lifts
- Bedding
- 1 in concrete sand
- Edge
- Spiked restraint, both sides
- Joints
- Polymeric sand, tan