Huge Driveway, Huge cost!?
Hi,
We have an enormous area at the front of our house and even though we know it’s going to be a big job we would love to get it made into a driveway.
We do already have a single car driveway, but we can’t stand the cutting of the grass or de-weeding the front the house anymore and it would be nice for people to have a safe place to park when they come over.
We were thinking of looking into the patterned pressed concrete with it being such a large area to cover, it’s approximately at its longest and widest points, 17m by 11m.
Anyone got any ideas on how much it’s going to set us back to get something like this done? Or any other ideas on what to do with the space? I live in the North East of England’s if that helps at all.
Thanks!
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Daisy England
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
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4 years agoI think in answer to your question, yes a larger area will cost more. Drainage should be considered...
Also keen appeal. If you have 3/4 cars in the house and often need to park a few more then obviously it’s different, but could you not increase it slightly, but still keep a front garden?
If you made it the width of 2 cars and increased the opening in the wall you could easily park 4 cars by the look of it and still have boarders/hedges some greenery.
Or could have 2 sets of strips to park on so you optimise where people park
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