Typical cost of resin-bonded stone driveway?

itm2

EssexExile wrote: »

I've thought about this for a long time. When I lived in Essex resin bonded/bound drives were all the rage. I moved to the midlands about 15 years ago & they were unheard up here. Then a place round the corner had their drive done & I kept an eye on how it lasted. It looked great for a few years but now is starting to sink & looks quite tatty. I've also wondered how they would look if they need to be dug into for any reason & repaired.

I've got a large area of drive & when I get fed up with weeding between the paviours it'll be tarmac for me.

Interesting....it makes me wonder whether that drive round your corner was bound, bonded, or whether they all end up the same.

JustLikeThat

My post was misread as I started off by saying my new drive was resin-bound. I may have confused by using the word bonded to describe the gravel that was used to make sure there was no loose edges to the underlying tarmac before the resin-bound coat was applied.

casper_g

The Pavingexpert site is a good introduction to the terminology and different types of resin-based surfacings, and is well worth reading before speaking to potential contractors.

The key message seems to be that a resin-bonded/resin-bound surface only provides a nice-looking wearing course and it's the concrete/asphalt etc underneath that does the work. As such it's suitable for smartening up tire-looking but sound driveways but won't work if the base is fundamentally in poor condition, cracking up, moving about etc.

The poor reputation these materials have is almost certainly down to cowboy contractors cutting corners and/or not understanding how to achieve a durable result. Manufacturers like SureSet offer long guarantees which suggests to me that this is one area where it would be well worth using an approved installer if you want to go down this route.

itm2

casper_g wrote: »

The Pavingexpert site is a good introduction to the terminology and different types of resin-based surfacings, and is well worth reading before speaking to potential contractors.

The key message seems to be that a resin-bonded/resin-bound surface only provides a nice-looking wearing course and it's the concrete/asphalt etc underneath that does the work. As such it's suitable for smartening up tire-looking but sound driveways but won't work if the base is fundamentally in poor condition, cracking up, moving about etc.

The poor reputation these materials have is almost certainly down to cowboy contractors cutting corners and/or not understanding how to achieve a durable result. Manufacturers like SureSet offer long guarantees which suggests to me that this is one area where it would be well worth using an approved installer if you want to go down this route.

Thanks - excellent info on that PavingExpert site. I think I'll get Sureset in for a quote and advice. If it's backed by an 18 year guarantee I'd be alot more comfortable. Not expecting it to be cheap though.

Getting back to the original question....any experience-based guesses on the cost of replacing my paved drive with resin-bonded gravel? I think the subbase is concrete, but not 100% sure.

mrsmartmoney

We used a company that is now called Resin stone driveways in bournemouth and they were horrendous - they cut corners, bodged walls. we had to get another company in to dig it all up and put new resin down. The guy that owns it, Alan Constantine, doesn't care about anything apart from profits - the £6.5k we spent was money down the drain.

We like the new surface though, but its only 12 months old so can't comment on how long it will last, looks good so far.

itm2

FYI for anyone shopping around, we eventually paid £2,533 for our 25 sq. metre drive, and are very pleased with it. We used the local installed recommended by Sureset, who were excellent.

LoeGill

Can you let me know which contractor you ended up using? We are based in Kingston and as you mentioned Richmond above presume we live around the same area. Also, did you go with bound or bonded? Did the price include digging up the driveway? Our driveway is only 12m2 larger but the quotes we got back so far (not from Sureset) are about 3x what you paid.

itm2

We used Gibson Gardens (from Twickenham). There wasn't much digging to speak of - mainly removal of the existing paving stones and preparing the existing concrete base (plus filling in a small corner which was not currently concreted). We went for resin bound.

Clockwood1964

Anyone know when the best place to buy the stone and resin materials from as I will be laying my own paths etc using this product?

Feral_Moon

My neighbour was quoted £25,000 for driveway and front parking area.