Driveway Pavers

[jenkinsph]

Beautiful place . Is that Ruidoso ?

Yes, I do ranch work in the Hondo Valley and construction in Alto and Ruidoso.

 

[Scut 4 Big Bucks]

You want to lay pavers for 250' and 12' wide. Hmmm.

I work in road construction here in WI. I had a job 6 years ago in Watertown, WI that was being reconstructed. Underneath 2" of asphalt, the entire road was brick pavers. I was able to hire a truck driver to bring me a quad axle load of these pavers for $100. I used them for my patio in the back yard. The patio is odd shaped, but about 30' out and 20' wide. I can tell you that after I laid the last paver, I was completely done with them. Once your base is prepped and ready for pavers, they do go in fairly quick, but it sure gets old after while. Looks great, but there is maintenance also. When the frost sets in come winter, the patio heaves here and there. Come spring time, it settles back down to "level". You're talking about a monster job to lay 250' of pavers. I would just drive on the gravel for at least 2 years, and let the base settle. After that, concrete or asphalt. Very costly, but it does add significant eye appeal to the house.

Only pic I could find of the patio was this one, with the Jacuzzi tub all finished up.

 

[jenkinsph]

Only pic I could find of the patio was this one, with the Jacuzzi tub all finished up.

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Looks good. Are those St. Joe bricks?

 

[Scut 4 Big Bucks]

Looks good. Are those St. Joe bricks?

Mainly Purington, and some BARR.

 

[darrenbaker]

By now you've probably finished the driveway for a long time now. But anyway, going back here just to share this info to you: The Plus of Stamped Concrete Overlays - Sundek of Nashville

 

[HillStreet]

Thanks Darren. I decided to pave the driveway, concrete is just not used up here in Maine. Price is $11,000. Had a guy quote pavers---$40,000 for driveway plus two small walkways. That ain't gonna happen.

 

[Renze]

Why 12 feet wide? Ten would be my maximum width. Have you measured how far apart your tires are?

A paver drive way should preferrably be more than 1.5 the width of the vehicles. If too narrow, you will allways drive the same two tracks, that will settle more. We make them 4 meter (13.5 feet) to make sure the road will be driven at random and settle equal.

The most important thing is going to be the base. I do not believe it's possible to compact the rock you will use for our base with a plate compactor.

For home roads we use yellow sand dug up from underneath the field as a base, the top foot of topsoil goes back into the quarry and gets reseeded. For public roads, or the road at the new production hall at work , they strip the topsoil, put crushed rock under neath and then two or three inch of sand to make a level bed in. A full lift needs a vibratory roller to compact, a walk behind plate compactor can only pack 6 inch lifts at a time.

If crushed rock is readily available in your area, it is by far the best base. Where i live, there is no natural rock available and only crushed demolition debris is available, at a price.

Without the compactor, a year of traffic and weathering will set a crushed rock base pretty good too.

 

[Renze]

Don't forget you can't salt pavers or you'll likely wreck them. Keep that in mind.

They salt the road at my parents house too. Paved in 1991, no damage, just some setting in a place where heavy traffic was forced to one side of the road because of overhanging trees, which was paved on a wet base layer.