Block paving

[the dark one]

Nope. Normal asphalt drive. Utter shambles the repair job.

Thats the only good thing about block paving like.Easily took up and relaid.
The gas board has a terrible record with reinstating footpaths.They normally do a quick fix then send in a proper reinstating gang. Or at leastthey used too.

 

[mcq10]

Thats the only good thing about block paving like.Easily took up and relaid.
The gas board has a terrible record with reinstating footpaths.They normally do a quick fix then send in a proper reinstating gang. Or at leastthey used too.

They’ve relaid pipes all along the streets a few away from me. The re tarmac job is a joke. I’d be nightly pissed off if it was my street

 

[Fletch]

They’ve relaid pipes all along the streets a few away from me. The re tarmac job is a joke. I’d be nightly pissed off if it was my street

they're doing our street at the moment , and the twats are digging up my drive as I type this

 

[mcq10]

they're doing our street at the moment , and the twats are digging up my drive as I type this

You’d best make sure that you complain when they make a mess of it then.

 

[yamar1]

Our old concrete drive is looking bit shabby now , few neighbours have block paving but they look bit Shite after couple year , lose colour , dip and get weeds. That patterned concrete sounds a canny idea mind , I hasn’t considered that

til it chips or cracks in a few years.

 

[Deleted member 27677]

til it chips or cracks in a few years.

This

The earlier drives that were done 10 plus year ago,I’ve noticed the tops coming off them

 

[yamar1]

This

The earlier drives that were done 10 plus year ago,I’ve noticed the tops coming off them

Its just a coating iirc.

 

[Fletch]

You’d best make sure that you complain when they make a mess of it then.

I will be, no doubts there , they've made a right mess of leechmere road

 

[Will e]

Requires permission now due to this.if a surface is non permable adequate drainage must be provided it seems.Mine just runs off straight into a surface water drain on the roadside.

Sunderland council don’t enforce the permeable paving regs

Any paving will dull/discolour eventually, some of the newer types of block paving look smart but are expensive.

You can seal block paving (matt and gloss finish) this enhances the colour and stops weeds growing in the sand joints but it doesn’t last forever, a bit like the imprinted concrete surface.

Pattern imprinted concrete is just that CONCRETE, it can crack and as others have said the resin surface can come off, but then again people like bling/shiny and the price the charge FFS, everyone to their own I suppose.