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The average block paving price round here which is Petts Wood area of Kent is £65 - £75 per square meter.
I had a concrete driveway and didn't want to pay that much so I looked in to other options which included printed concrete, coloured tarmac etc but the one I eventually stumbled upon was Resin Bonded Surfacing it was a fraction of the price and it looks really smart and massive !!!
My drive is 110sq meters and the block Paving quote was £7150.00 + Disposal costs of the old concrete which they said would be around £500.
The price I paid for Resin Bonded Surface was £2915.00 and there were no disposal costs as they went over the top of the concrete. So I saved a MASSIVE £4235.00 + Disposal :j :j :j and I have a drive that doesn't look like everyone else's !!
I found the company i uesd on google not sure if your allowed to put links on here so I won't but they're easy to find. They were very polite & professional it took them 2 days to install it 1 day preparing the surface & the second laying it.
I hope this helps you all to save lots of pennies.
I have just done a search on the net and one site showed a video of the process. But they just surfaced over the top of an existing concrete driveway.
This doesn't sound very long lasting to me and may be a false economy. If you have a driveway blocked they should dig down far enough and create a solid base for the drive.
Going to look into the Resin surfec further as it may be a good option for us also.
bonded is when you scatter stone on resin and bound is where they are mixed in a mixer a long lasting solution and more expensive i would always do bound so it lasts crown-driveways did mine and is rock hard and are in the south of england
Anyone got any recent exsampes of companies and prices please?
For 60m squared it varied from £2700 (he just had a quick look and didn't even measure anything!) to £6000. All of them were quoting for Marshalls tegula.
In the end, we found someone who we saw doing another drive and asked him to do a quote.
He quoted for his labour, skip hire and digger hire (separately - most just do a single quote which is probably rounded up to the next couple of hundred pounds). And pointed us towards a builders yard that had outside displays of all the different makes of blocks.
We chose Pavestone (cheaper and I think looks better than Marshalls) and got a price - the builder ordered them for us.
He also suggested re-laying the stone edging we already had (for a gravel drive), so this saved a bit more.
All in all, it cost us £3000 (half what some were quoting) and the results are great.
For the record A Tarmac or Block Paving Driveway will cost you £45 per square metre or more if you use a national firm.
Tarmac used to be the cheaper option but not anymore due to the cost of oil
Wow that is sad to hear, I hope you sued the hell out of them. Sounds like it was over 10 times the correct price.