How to Give Your Driveway Kerb Appeal

There are a thousand different ways of making a hard surface for cars and DrivewayExpert has details on all of them. Whether you're paving your front garden to get your car off the road or resurfacing a three mile drive to your palatial country mansion you'll find all the information you require on this website.

Questionnaire: What’s the Best Driveway Material for You?

There are literally thousands of driveway styles to choose from, particularly if you take all the different shades, colours and materials into account. So how can you make sense of the confusion? Grab a pen and paper and go through the key points in this article, and you’ll have a …

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Pitch for Flexible Jointing

Before heavy traffic began to colonise our country, pitch was the most common form of jointing used for cobbled or block paved roadways. But it can’t cope with heavy traffic and as a result has nearly disappeared from our streets. Of course, the vast majority of domestic driveways only began …

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Excavating for a Driveway

Excavating for a driveway is one of the biggest jobs in home civil engineering. It’s quite an undertaking, but if you’re buying your own piece of land and planning to build your own house, it’s good to know how much earth you’ll be digging up and what sort of foundations …

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Repair and Maintenance of Concrete Drives and Paths

Concrete driveways are heralded as being maintenance-free, but it’s still worth taking a look over them once in a while. Dirt build up will eventually allow moss, then weeds, to get a foothold. Over time, concrete driveways can crack and the edges can crumble if vehicles drive over the edges …

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Edging for Gravel Drives

In the world of landscaping, edging is a process by which stones, bricks or blocks are placed along the edge of a driveway to prevent pebbles and other debris from migrating into the lawn. It’s also used to keep grass from growing up around the edges of driveways. Debris that …

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Looking After Gravel Drives

We are often asked about gravel drives, from different types of gravel drive to its construction and maintenance. Looking after a drive is necessary to prolong its life and keep it looking good. Gravel has had something of a resurgence as a material for gardens and driveways because it’s touted …

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The Automatic Block Paving Machine: A Case Study

Who would have thought that we would be writing a story about a machine that lays roads almost on its own? Certainly not anyone in the Driveway Expert office, who thought that was still in the realms of science fiction. But a Dutch company has gone ahead and made one, …

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Floodlights for Your Driveway

Have you ever driven home late at night? Do you live somewhere where heavy dampness and fog envelop the road, interfering with your vision and making it difficult to see? If the answer is yes, then investing in a set of floodlights for your driveway would be an extremely wise …

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Calculating the Fall on your Driveway

Drives are a major feature of any property, and getting them right can really add value to your home. Finding the levels accurately, calculating the fall on your driveway and ensuring you have adequate drainage is vital if you want to make sure that your new drive will last for …

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Putting Expansion Joints In Concrete Drives

Expansion joints protect the structure of a drive from cracks caused by concrete expanding and contracting in hot or cold weather. Severe seasonal changes can crack even the strongest concrete, no matter how carefully it is laid. Expansion joints are placed in all large slabs to allow for this expansion …

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