My rubbish drive, ideas please

[roys]

My drive is rubbish and it annoys my wife when it rains and puddles form which do disappear but it takes best part of a day to soak through the broken concrete. The drive is about 15m x 3m and as I just mentioned the concrete slab is all cracked and uneven.

i was thinking about the plastic grids and filling with a gravel from the local quarry or road scalping and wack it down, I don’t know. What do you think?

[sime42]

Road scalpings will be cheaper, and go down nice and hard.

[Muddy42]

Concrete drives are normally indestructible even if they crack.

 

Are you sure its not just cr@p lying ontop. have you tried pressure washing with one of those motorised brushes that you can hire?

 

if it really has crumbled, assuming the foundations are OK, find a decent company to resurface it, meaning aggressive grinding back and adding a new layer of concrete.

 

Leave it unused for the period they recommend plus some.   The only concrete drive failure ive seen is when someone drove on it too soon.

[roys]

It was the drive that Jack built, the concrete is not very thick and I think it is pretty knackered, it is certainly uneven as I do get a lot of puddles forming on it when it rains.

Thank you for the replies.

[peds]

About a 3rd of my lane is road planings, made three years ago, great stuff. I tried to get some more recently, last year, and it seems impossible... it is now all "contaminated waste" and has to go through the correct channels. Might be the same story where you are. 

[roys]

@peds you don’t happen to have a pic of your drive do you, I am trying to describe to my wife what it will look like but she is not as keen on the idea as I am.

[Steve Bullman]

If you’re not on a particular budget look at a resin bound driveway. Not entirely sure but I believe it would just go straight down on top of that with little prep work needed. Come in any colour you like 

 

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[Stere]

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If it really has crumbled, assuming the foundations are OK, find a decent company to resurface it, meaning aggressive grinding back and adding a new layer of concrete.

 

Re concrete-    will need also ideally  a fall & some kind of  drainage system so it doesnt puddle?

 

 

Edited September 30 by Stere

[peds]

10 hours ago, roys said:

@peds you don’t happen to have a pic of your drive do you, I am trying to describe to my wife what it will look like but she is not as keen on the idea as I am.

 

Ah, it's a 200m laneway, not a drive, and it was chosen because it was 30% the cost of a load of quarry stone! We could only get 8 loads unfortunately, everything else had been spoken for.

 

I'll get some pictures of it later, when I get home, but it's just your average country lane... grass starting to grow in the middle, a few potholes in it after we had to dig the water pipe in next to it...

We hope to put a thin layer of quarry dust or something on top of the whole 200m of it at some stage, it isn't top of the To Do list right now though.

[woody paul]

2 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

If you’re not on a particular budget look at a resin bound driveway. Not entirely sure but I believe it would just go straight down on top of that with little prep work needed. Come in any colour you like 

 

Resin Bound Surfaces Professionally Applied | Specialist Lining Services

SPECIALISTLININGSERVICES.CO.UK

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Resin Bound Surfaces provide a modern surface for traditional tarmac. Suitable...

 

Need to be careful how you get, had a customer had it done on drive and first time oil lorry drove on it broke through it, he was told good for 50ton.