DIY Crushed Concrete Driveway - A Cheaper Alternative.
by
Lee @ Lady Lee's Home
(IC: blogger)
We finished the first part of the driveway on the farm yesterday.
We choose to make a crushed concrete driveway because it’s much much cheaper than what we would have paid for the common gravel driveway.
We choose to make a crushed concrete driveway because it’s much much cheaper than what we would have paid for the common gravel driveway.
Our search for a cheaper way to pave a driveway started right after we spent more than a $1000 for 50ft of the conventional gravel driveway. One of the reasons we bought our land was because it’s off of a main country road that connects two small towns. We were thinking about building a farm stand in the future, so we can sell produce right from the farm. But we never intended to live close to the road. Our land is rectangular and hilly, so we can go as far back as we would like to and not hear or see the road. Or so we thought…
From my previous driveway post, you know that, at first, we were looking for dump truck drivers who pick up milled asphalt from paving jobs around the city to dump the material at our place. This was easy when we redid the driveway at our house in town, it proved to be much harder to find a willing driver to dump on our land since it’s deep in the country. Not so close to job sites anymore.
We learned that prices change all the time. A crusher can sell asphalt for $12 a ton one week and $9 the next because there might have been a large paving job around town, and they are now dealing with a huge amount of material that they need to get rid of. Some concrete plants might even give you their waste for free when they clean the plant.
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Published June 24th, 2015 7:02 AM
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