subject: Tired of your gravel driveway? keatorbuilt paving will tell you how to keep your old fashion look on your new asphalt driveway [print this page] Tired of your gravel driveway? keatorbuilt paving will tell you how to keep your old fashion look on your new asphalt driveway
People with old fashion victorain or colonian style homes tend to shy away from paving thier driveways. They say that asphalt dosen't blend with the old fashion victorian look. But the only other option is high priced stamped concrete or pavers. So alot of times customers will just stay with the never ending maintaince of gravel. Gravel will cost you more to maintain than asphalt ,concrete and pavers. But there isanother option avaliable to people that are looking for a certain old fashion colonial curb side apeal for their driveway. This other option is called asphalt serface blending.
Asphalt surface blending is when you take any decritive clean stone and blend it with the serface of the blacktop driveway. You can get clean stone in almost any color. Everything is the same when doing this type of job. The driveway gets graded and than compact rolled. Once the grading part of the job is donethan asphalt paving begins. When paving a driveway the paver is acually laying the asphalt first. Than the roller comes form behind to pack and cool the asphalt so it begins to get soild. When rolling hot asphalt it takes many passes to get the asphalt rock soild. When the asphalt has been rolled a few times you start spreading the clean stone over the already rolled asphalt evenly.
As the roller comes back through it will press the clean stone into the driveway. But revealing the colored stone on the serface of the asphalt driveway. This spreadingof the decritive stone and rolling must be repeateduntil asphalt is fully hard. In many cases this type of driveway has to behalf inch thicker than a regular driveway. This is because you can't sealcoatthis type of driveway you want it to turn grey.This will give your driveway that old fashion colonial look with asphalt. This will be much cheaper than getting stamped concrete or pavers done.This really works great for people who have larger driveways and are looking for that old historic look and don't want to spend thousands more than they have too. http://keatorbuiltpavingandsealcoating.com
