Two-inch residential drive
Milled, based and laid in one day on most houses here. Two inches compacted is what a car and a pickup want, and what our standard rate buys.
Pace the drive, tell us what is on it now and how thick it needs to be. You get a price range in about a minute. Then we measure it, dig to see what the base is doing, and confirm the number in writing before a ton of mix is ordered.
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Every drive we quote includes the base compacted in lifts, the edges hand-tamped to a bevel and the site raked and swept before we leave. We do not leave millings heaped at the end of your lane.
Milled, based and laid in one day on most houses here. Two inches compacted is what a car and a pickup want, and what our standard rate buys.
A dually, an RV, a boat trailer or 400 feet of country lane that a delivery truck uses. Thicker goes down in lifts with a roll between them.
Regrading, a new stone base, or a swale and a pipe where water stands. Paving over a soft spot just moves the problem one winter down the road.
Cracks cut out and hot-rubber filled first, then sealer. Every three to five years is right; every year is a waste of your money and we will say so.
Cutting a new way in off a county road is a permit before it is paving: the county sizes the pipe and inspects the stone. We handle that end of it.
Lots, lanes and anything that has to stay open while we work. We walk it, dig a test hole and send a scope, a phasing plan and a price.
The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than a single number because what is under the old surface, where the water goes and whether a loaded truck can actually get to the work are things we can only settle standing on the drive.
Roughly how many square feet, what is on it now, how thick it needs to be, what the base needs and how a paver gets in. The same questions we ask on the phone, answered in a minute.
Midpoint plus or minus 9%. A small drive still carries the crew day, so nothing quotes under $4,000. Anything over $18,000 gets a measure instead of a number.
Free measure, exact price, written warranty. Travel is priced from your ZIP, and our winter booking, laid when the plant reopens rate (-10%) applies from December 1 to March 20, because the hot-mix plants are shut through those months and a job booked then is laid when they fire back up. Sealcoating and crack filling costs the same in any month we can do it at all — sealer needs a dry surface and two days above 50 degrees, so in January it is not cheaper, it is not happening.
Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. Hot mix leaves the plant near 300 degrees and has to be rolled before it cools, so a paving job is tied to a plant in a way most trades are not — and the further we haul, the more of the load we are fighting. No surprises on the invoice, and no free hour-long drives with a loaded trailer built into everyone else’s price.
900 square feet, old asphalt to mill off, 2 inches compacted, a new 4-inch stone base, straight in off the road, standing water No, new entrance No, parking in the first week No. Use ZIP 20601. The live pricing engine returns $5,622 – $6,734 with the disclaimer, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox. 900 feet at $5.20 makes $4,680 of dollars; the two percentage answers — milling +18% and a new base +14% — pool to +32% and apply once to all of it.--date=2026-12-15: $5,059 – $6,060. The season wraps the year end (December 1 to March 20, start after end), which the engine matches with OR rather than AND, so --date=2027-03-20 gives the same winter figure and --date=2027-03-21 snaps back to $5,622 – $6,734. It is -10% because the mid-Atlantic hot-mix plants are shut from December to the middle of March — there is no mix to buy — so a winter booking is a job laid in the spring, and the discount is this company’s whole winter sales budget handed to the customer instead of spent on advertising.400 square feet on bare ground, 2 inches, nothing needed under it, straight in, everything else No: the work itself comes to $2,080 and the quote comes back $4,000 – $4,360. That is the crew day — a paver, a roller, two tri-axles and five people cost the same on a 400-foot pad — and it is the service minimum, so the low end of the band is the floor itself rather than 9% under it. A contractor who quotes that job at $2,080 is losing money on it, and this widget will not.200 square feet, bare ground, everything cheap, but Yes to the new-entrance question: the work is $1,040 and the quote comes back $6,500 – $7,085. Cutting a new way in off a county road is a permit, a culvert sized by the county and an inspection before any surface goes down, so the rule lifts the job minimum to $6,500 however short the drive is.20735 (Clinton) for the near ring: $5,785 – $6,930. With 21044 (Columbia) for the outer ring: $5,981 – $7,164. Any ZIP outside the listed prefixes, whether 22201 (Arlington, VA) or 75001 (Texas), falls to the catch-all zone: $6,438 – $7,711, the percentage first and then the flat fee.99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.2400 square feet, old concrete to break out, 4 inches in two lifts, excavating, tight access, standing water Yes. The midpoint works out at $30,792, clearing the service’s $18,000 ceiling, so the widget routes to “we’ll come and measure” rather than printing a number.900 square feet, last sealed three to five years ago, a few cracks, no oil stains, no edging, one coat, ZIP 20601. $374 – $457, and the $95 trip charge is inside that number rather than added at the door — it is the service’s base fee, so it is added once however many square feet we seal. The cheapest possible answer set floors at the service minimum: $245 – $270. With everything on — 2000 square feet, never sealed, alligatored, oil stains, edging and two coats — it is $1,582 – $1,933, and at 5000 square feet the same answers clear the $2,200 ceiling at $2,812 and route instead.22201 and the catch-all zone takes it to $974 – $1,190: the $650 trip fee is most of the quote. That is honest arithmetic and it is also the reason we do not chase sealcoating across the river.