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Asphalt drive quote

  • 15-05-2019 12:52PM
    #1
    bri007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I got a quote of €4,000 for an asphalt driveway.

    The size is 85m2.

    The guy said it would be over €5,500 for the cobblestone and asphalt would be better.

    From my understanding asphalt is same/similar to tarmac and that it will crack and possibly sink in the future.

    Is the price I got inline with the cost of doing the same?

    I have tried to get other quotes but nobody has got back to me yet.

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Bindertwine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Bindertwine


    bri007 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I got a quote of €4,000 for an asphalt driveway.

    The size is 85m2.

    The guy said it would be over €5,500 for the cobblestone and asphalt would be better.

    From my understanding asphalt is same/similar to tarmac and that it will crack and possibly sink in the future.

    Is the price I got inline with the cost of doing the same?

    I have tried to get other quotes but nobody has got back to me yet.

    Thanks in advance

    Where are you based? Whats involved? Seems excessive.


  • #3
    bri007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭bri007


    We are based in north Dublin. It involves removal of old concrete drive and garden and then the new asphalt laid.

    Yeah I was thinking it seems excessive but due to my having any other quotes I was unsure.
    Bindertwine wrote: »
    Where are you based? Whats involved? Seems excessive.


  • #4
    Bindertwine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭Bindertwine


    Removal of concrete etc will add to the cost, plus if your sub base needs strengthening, if the sub base is sound you will not have any sinking in the future. My driveway is mad up of 150mm of 804 compacted and a 60mm finished depth of wearing course macadam, its down almost 14 years and no sinking or ravelling. SMA is now the recommended material for driveways.


  • #5
    RuthieRose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭RuthieRose


    bri007 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I got a quote of €4,000 for an asphalt driveway.

    The size is 85m2.

    The guy said it would be over €5,500 for the cobblestone and asphalt would be better.

    From my understanding asphalt is same/similar to tarmac and that it will crack and possibly sink in the future.

    Is the price I got inline with the cost of doing the same?

    I have tried to get other quotes but nobody has got back to me yet.

    Thanks in advance

    Just wondering did you get this job done and who did you use?


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