Concrete or asphalt driveway?

400-600 yards? You better have deep pockets or plan for gravel

yards as in distance, right?

Because hopefully you’re not buying 600 cubic yards of concrete

You are looking at north of $200,000 for concrete. You could do crushed concrete and spread dry mix over it. It will lock in tight

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400-600 yards of one

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of concrete? thats roughly 75k in concrete alone. You are looking at 150k for this. WTF??

if you are talking length, looking at 250+ yards at 4" thick which is still over 30k in concrete alone and prolly looking at between 75-100k in total install. frick all that.


dude unless you are stupid rich, just go crushed concrete and use some of the savings on sprucing up the landscaping.

I did 10500 sq ft of asphalt driveway in 2016. At the time, it was a good bit cheaper than concrete. I had a gravel road before that I drove on for 4 years and had a good base established. However, when the contractor laid the road, he removed all the gravel and laid down 2 inch crushed stone base on the existing road, and on a new circular drive, 4 inch crushed base, and 2 inches thick asphalt over the top of all of it. All is was around 30-35k. That has held up much better than my concrete parking pad which of course has various cracks. On the asphalt, I did have it sealed about a year later, and regularly monitor for small holes which I fill with patch. Big fan of the asphalt and while expensive, it has been well worth the cost.