Resin Driveway was installed badly

Head_The_Ball

ciderboy2009 wrote: »

That price seems remarkably cheap - but it might depend on where you are.

Based on recent quotes for my own drive (about the same size)I would have expected £10k - £12k for 30square metres here in the South West.

That is nearly £400 per sq metre. :eek:

A quick google suggests £40 upwards per sq metre.

George_Michael

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

That is nearly £400 per sq metre. :eek:

A quick google suggests £40 upwards per sq metre.

Using the link supplied, that's about £40 per square metre for jobs in excess of 100 sq metres and that price is only for pouring and finishing the resin on an already suitable base.

If you are talking about removing an old driveway and laying a base, I'm sure that the labour charges will increase that £40 pm considerably.
IMO, it's probably a bit like companies who advertise an item or service "from" £xx, knowing full well that in all reality there are very few, if any people who will end up paying this rate.

JohnB47

Just for info - every time I've seen this done locally to me, the base has consisted of a layer of around 4 inch thick concrete.

This site gives advice. The recommendations for the base suggest a layer of something called MOT type 1, then a layer of concrete or tarmac. Putting the top coat directly on sand/soil seems shoddy to me.

http://www.resindrivesadvice.co.uk/resin-bound-install-guide

Head_The_Ball

George_Michael wrote: »

Using the link supplied, that's about £40 per square metre for jobs in excess of 100 sq metres and that price is only for pouring and finishing the resin on an already suitable base.

If you are talking about removing an old driveway and laying a base, I'm sure that the labour charges will increase that £40 pm considerably.
IMO, it's probably a bit like companies who advertise an item or service "from" £xx, knowing full well that in all reality there are very few, if any people who will end up paying this rate.

Agreed, hence why I wrote £40 upwards.

I find it hard to believe that it would reasonably increase to £400 per sg metre.

We recently had a 110 sg metre rear garden completely renovated. The whole area was excavated, about 70 sq metres of Marshalls Sandstone paving laid on top of compacted MOT1, gravel borders, artificial grass etc.

The final bill was about £12,000, or about £110 per sq metre.

What can possibly justify £400 per sq metre?

ciderboy2009

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Agreed, hence why I wrote £40 upwards.

I find it hard to believe that it would reasonably increase to £400 per sg metre.

We recently had a 110 sg metre rear garden completely renovated. The whole area was excavated, about 70 sq metres of Marshalls Sandstone paving laid on top of compacted MOT1, gravel borders, artificial grass etc.

The final bill was about £12,000, or about £110 per sq metre.

What can possibly justify £400 per sq metre?

To give some more info on my quotes - the old driveway was concrete laid directly onto the soil so there was a fair bit of digging out to do.

The quotes were to dig out, add a soakaway/ drain etc, , a significant depth of hardcore, stone dust on top of that and then the actual surface.

The quotes we received were all around the same values from the half dozen or so companies we called in:

Blocks - £6k
Tarmac - £8k
Resin - £10k

We ended up having the work done last week in blocks. It took 4 men 3 days of non-stop working to do it. Laying the actual blocks only took a couple of hours of this!