Concrete delivery lorry has dented our block pave driveway - how to get it restored

iwant2asave

Hi,

The other day a concrete delivery truck was delivering concrete to one of our neighbours opposite and noticed at some parts he went over and also stopped on our block paved driveway while delivering the concrete from the rear of his vehicle.  I didnt think too much of it at the time, but today I have just noticed some parts of the driveway have sunk a bit and misaligned some of the block paves where the truck has come on our drive.

Just wondering how big a job is it to get restored - would it be a small job for a block paver or myself to resolve or is it a big job?

Sam

tacpot12

It's a relatively small job. You need to remove the pavoirs across the damaged area and a little beyond, and fill and recompact the foundation layer, before relaying.

TELLIT01

It's a comparatively small job but the concrete company should pay for the work, assuming you can provide evidence that their lorry did the damage and it's not just dropped over time from the passage of your own vehicle(s).

iwant2asave

Thanks both - unfortunately I dont have any proof and its defininitely not ours as that part of the drive is not passed over by our vehicles at all and it was not like that last week.

I might contact the company and see what they say - the driver would obviously know he has driven there and I think a number of our neighbours would have seen it too alongside the builders who are working at the place where the concrete was delivered...they are having major works done....apparently they are due to have more concrete delivered soon so I will try and be extra vigilent if I see them trying the same on our driveway!

plumb1_2

Inform the builders, and ask the to repair it.

GDB2222

If the builder is unhelpful about this, they might find that you start parking your own vehicle(s) in such a way as to make it impossible to get further concrete deliveries. 

Ectophile

I managed to fix a hole in my driveway after a skip lorry punched a hole right through it.

The blocks can be a bit of a sod to get out, as the spaces between them will be filled with sand and dirt.  Take out a decent size patch.  Re-pack and tamp down the ground underneath them until it's level again.

Then getting them back in again can also be hard work.  You will find that the hole for the last one is always too small.  I ended up cheating and grinding the dimples off the edges of a few to get them in.

Make sure you have some spares.  Even using a wooden mallet to hammer them back in still left me with a few broken ones.

Section62

iwant2asave said:

Thanks both - unfortunately I dont have any proof and its defininitely not ours as that part of the drive is not passed over by our vehicles at all and it was not like that last week.

I might contact the company and see what they say - the driver would obviously know he has driven there....

There's a good chance the lorry was fitted with cameras so the company would be able to check that footage - but whether or not they admit the driver caused the damage is something else.

FreeBear

Ectophile said: Make sure you have some spares.  Even using a wooden mallet to hammer them back in still left me with a few broken ones.

A big rubber mallet is probably better. Failing that, put a block of wood on top of the paver and whack that with the hammer.

TELLIT01

I would certainly be doing something to prevent any other delivery lorries, be it concrete or anything else, running up onto your drive.

koalakoala

We had the same from a skip driver. We tried to get them to pay for repair but they refused, as they said we had moved the skip ?? We gave up and just fixed it