Driveway Repairs in Eaton Socon

Tarmac driveway repair can mean anything from filling a single pothole to laying a new surface over the whole drive. We help you decide which makes sense by looking at how much of the drive is affected and how sound the base is underneath.

Patching works well when:

• The damage is limited to one or two areas
• The rest of the surface is still firm and holding its stones
• The base beneath the damage is sound once the top is cut back

Resurfacing is usually the better option when potholes and cracks are scattered across the drive, or when the surface has turned grey and porous throughout. In that case, a new wearing course laid over a repaired base gives a single, consistent finish and avoids a patchwork of joins.

Each patch is cut back to a clean square edge, the base is repaired, fresh hot tarmac is laid and compacted, and the joins are sealed to keep water out. Where tarmac meets block paving or a verge, we can add a proper edge restraint so the surface has something firm to hold against.

Concrete drives laid in panels decades ago turn up here too. Concrete driveway repair usually means cutting out the cracked panel along clean lines and casting a new one, rather than filling a wide crack that will simply open again.

On drives that have been patched many times, we often suggest tidying the old repairs into one or two larger, neater areas, so there are fewer joins left for water to find.

The cost depends on the number of areas to repair, the depth of any base failure, edging work needed and whether a full resurface is more sensible. If most of the drive has broken up, our page on a new driveway in Eaton Socon explains what a rebuild could look like. We visit first and give you a free written quote.