Resin Driveway quote

We had a 14m x 2.5m tarmac drive done about 18 months ago which included inserting a fold down bollard and a replacement man hole cover along with concrete edgings and this came to £1750. Tarmac is cheaper than resin drives but I do not think the materials for resin drives are significantly dearer.

Richard

about £50

No Its a bit like the old sledgehammer to crack a nut. I was just wondering, what great claims are there for resin, is it nuclear bomb proof or something for that price or is it the I need a new bungalow fund for the company? Brian

A clear rip off.

Get alternative prices.

It's only viable if the existing surface/base is in good condition so that might need fixing too. Existing surfaces ften need special treatment to get it to stick.

It's a process that lends itself to short cuts/inferior work too.

You need to know exactly what you get for the money.

Supposedly, it is said to be porous and gets round the problems avoiding water run off from the property. How true I am not sure but that selling point is often quoted in the sales pitch.

Richard

Entirely true *if* done right with a permeable resin and the right (unbound) base.

All these porous hard surfaces bung up with crap and algy. Virtually impossible to clear out. Not worth the trouble.

Robin snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@outlook.com:

Exactly - if the base is not porous then the over coating cannot be.

Apparently they are glad I said no, the drive oposist was done in 2.5 hours, they trowled the resin on top of the old tarmac drive....

Ah but: I thought that that was the idea of the resin approach: you have a crappy old concrete drive with a crumbling surface (for example), which is nonetheless strong, so you get it resinned [?] which consolidates it into a solid, weatherproof, hardwearing surface.

But for £2300 I'd expect them to dig up the old one, put down new hard core, surface it with something, and lastly put the resin on.

I stand to be corrected!

John