Gravel Driveway Build
From loose sand to a driveway that holds
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The Rest Of The Year
Jobs this size are the ones people see. Most weeks we are on driveways, house pads and wet yards around Coos County.
The Work
This one started as loose sand. The drive ran off a paved apron straight into soft ground cut through the timber, and every trip down it left another set of ruts. Sand does not hold a vehicle and it does not hold water anywhere useful, so rock dumped straight on top of it would have disappeared into it by the second winter. We dug out the loose sand and cut the run in first, setting a crown so water sheds off the surface instead of standing on it and cutting the same ruts again. Then asphalt chips in, spread off the truck and packed down, so the driveway sits on something structural rather than floating on sand. The finished drive holds a loaded truck, sheds water, and does not need a load of rock dumped in it every spring.
The Challenge
Loose sand will not carry a vehicle and will not hold anything laid on top of it. Anything built here had to solve the base before it solved the surface.
Our Solution
Dig out the loose sand and cut and crown the run for drainage, then lay asphalt chips and pack them down so the driveway is structural instead of a layer of material sitting on sand.
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