Any recent asphalt driveway costs to share?

[manwithtools]

I share a driveway with our neighbor that is about 1000 feet long in combined length and 10 feet in width. The drive is on flat ground and has a solid base of 2" stone covered with asphalt millings. The millings are beginning to deteriorate and we are contemplating having the drive topped with asphalt ~3". I'm just curious if anyone has any recent experience doing this and what the cost was. I realize this is regionally dependant and we will be getting quotes soon. Just wanted to know what we might expect to see before getting the quotes.

 

[Byrdnyrd]

I had my Driveway done recently. 400 feet long about 12 feet wide 5750 square feet.. They dig up and removed the old asphalt, put down 6” of new dense grade. 3” base coat and 2” finish coat. It was almost exactly $4 square foot. That’s Massachusetts pricing.

Cheers,
BN

 

[Byrdnyrd]

Manwithtools,

I’ll be curious to heat your quotes, up here we tax the Gravel, the Tar, the dump truck, the dump truck tires, the drivers shoes…..

Tax and Spend!

Taxachusetts!

Cheers,
BN

 

[jkeyser14]

I share a driveway with our neighbor that is about 1000 feet long in combined length and 10 feet in width. The drive is on flat ground and has a solid base of 2" stone covered with asphalt millings. The millings are beginning to deteriorate and we are contemplating having the drive topped with asphalt ~3". I'm just curious if anyone has any recent experience doing this and what the cost was. I realize this is regionally dependant and we will be getting quotes soon. Just wanted to know what we might expect to see before getting the quotes.

Very similar setup at ~950 ft long. Paved over a base of millings. Cost was $18k 4 years ago. It took them a full 2 days working about 10-12 hrs per day.

 

[manwithtools]

Very similar setup at ~950 ft long. Paved over a base of millings. Cost was $18k 4 years ago. It took them a full 2 days working about 10-12 hrs per day.

Thanks, so likely closer to $36k today based on the other cost increases we've seen.

Actually $36k is about where I thought it might hit. We'll find out soon enough.

 

[Recoveryman]

Manwithtools: When you spec the thickness desired, be sure to specify that you want that thickness after being rolled. Many of these installers will lie big time.
Recoveryman

 

[Byrdnyrd]

I think it would help out OP if the cost was per square foot. $88,000 dollars for my driveway or I paid $2600 3 years ago isn’t as valuable as $2.75 per square foot. I agree with all our posters, this industry is wrought with schyters, please do your homework!

My guy was the REAL deal, certainly not the cheapest, but the only guy who quoted the job that actually knew what needed to be Done with respect to grade and drainage.

Cheers,
BN

 

[Ultradog MN]

I share a driveway with our neighbor that is about 1000 feet long in combined length and 10 feet in width. The drive is on flat ground and has a solid base of 2" stone covered with asphalt millings. The millings are beginning to deteriorate and we are contemplating having the drive topped with asphalt ~3". I'm just curious if anyone has any recent experience doing this and what the cost was. I realize this is regionally dependant and we will be getting quotes soon. Just wanted to know what we might expect to see before getting the quotes.

New driveway last summer. Don't know the square footage.
$8K

 

[reader2580]

Personally, I wouldn't be do a non-required driveway paving at this time unless you believe that oil prices are never dropping again, but that is just me. In my city, an unpaved driveway must be paved if a building permit is taken out. (Roofing, siding, electrical, HVAC/water heater, or window replacement with the same size and style don't trigger this. A deck, addition, or similar do trigger the requirement.)

 

[reader2580]

Don't just automatically go with cheapest company. I had a 100 foot asphalt driveway installed in 2014. I had the first 30 feet replaced with concrete in 2023. The concrete contractor was showing me how thin the asphalt was when they were tearing it out. He thought it was very thin. It was maybe 2". I am surprised it has lasted as well as it has, but it it starting to crack in spots.

Note that I didn't choose the driveway contractor. I had a GC in charge of a whole home remodel and the GC took care of paving the driveway as part of the deal. (I had to have a GC due to how the remodel was financed.)

 

[mepstein]

Right. I have to pave my 6400sq/ft driveway soon but it sure won't be while oil prices are at their highest.
I will team up with my neighbor for the best price. We always get better deals on that kind of work when the contractor can move his equipment once but do multiple jobs.
If you are in a neighborhood and see a crew out doing a job, that's the best time to get a quote. It also allows you to see the quality of their work. My dad just did his roof after watching his neighbor get his done. Guys were super professional and happy to give local references. My dad wasn't comparing prices so much as the totality of the job.

 

[sailor_lou]

Two years ago 9100sq ft cost me $30k in the middle of NH. They added two truckloads of base to what I already had, rolled it out on day one and paved on day two.

 

[reader2580]

I wonder if asphalt paving companies are putting oil price clauses in estimates and contracts now?

 

[judgethis]

I had mine done around 6 month ago, aprox. 5300 sq/ft 25k. That included tearing out old driveway and bring in new gravel to areas that were expanded and bring up to level.

 

[mervyn]

2019. Driveway and sidewalk in backyard.
2.40 sq. Ft. Asphalt

 

[shade]

Just quoted 5300 Sq FT $18500
Ouch.

 

[manwithtools]

Just quoted 5300 Sq FT $18500
Ouch.

That's about $3.50 /sq. ft., less than I'm expecting. I'll be surprised if I'm under $4.00 a ft. Geting the first bid today.

 

[MooreGarage]

Paid a little under $5.00 per square foot for 3500 square feet, about 4 years ago. This was replacing an old gravel driveway so included some grading, compaction and gravel costs. Minimum 3" thick asphalt, ended up over 4" in the area where I park my 9K lb campervan so that was a good thing.

 

[larry4406]

Dan I hope the current middle east "excursion" doesn't hit your asphalt costs too much, although with gas up over 80 cents per gallon, I would expect anything petroleum related will go out of sight

Several years ago, company I worked for was developing a major fabrication/engineering center with over 5 acres under roof. The paving contract was tied to an asphalt index.

 

[manwithtools]

First budgetary verbal quotes are showing close to $3.50 a sq. ft. I'm looking forward to receiving the formal written estimates. This is for 2.5" of compacted asphalt over a compacted thin base of crusher run.

 

[Overboost44]

First budgetary verbal quotes are showing close to $3.50 a sq. ft. I'm looking forward to receiving the formal written estimates. This is for 2.5" of compacted asphalt over a compacted thin base of crusher run.

I would not let any of it be less than that 3". You have to watch them because shady characters will give you 3" at the edge and less in the middle. I understand that 3" is good. Not a bad price though. Watching this thread with interest.

I have 1176 sq ft. to be removed and the new driveway will be 930 sq ft. When I was going to do things differently In 2020, I got the following quote with some details that you may find helpful. This was to remove 1176 sq. ft. and pave 1,576 of new.

 

[manwithtools]

I would not let any of it be less than that 3".

The 3" in your quote is before compaction, so likely would end up 2.5" compacted, the same as my first incoming quote is.

Thanks for sharing those details.

 

[njk4o5]

I just got my driveway paved 12k sqft in Maine in november, $28.5k

 

[manwithtools]

Second quote came in at $61,000. They are obviously out of the running. They are a larger local firm that does streets and subdivisions, this could have been a "go away" bid, regardless...

Their $61k vs the $31,380 of the first bid tells me they don't want this work. Same specs BTW.

 

[manwithtools]

Third quote at $30k, looks like $30-32k is the number we'll be working with. I have one more quote coming.

 

[Metallitubby]

The price of wanting a new car, eh?

 

[manwithtools]

The price of wanting a new car, eh?

Alas, yes I guess so

 

[Metallitubby]

Alas, yes I guess so

I don't blame you. When we built our house, one the major factors was what type of vehicles will be driving up/down the driveway. We've had quite a few NSXesesssesssssss in our driveway, so it is important to some of us.

 

[manwithtools]

I don't blame you. When we built our house, one the major factors was what type of vehicles will be driving up/down the driveway. We've had quite a few NSXesesssesssssss in our driveway, so it is important to some of us.

This decision has several facecets. One is the constant need to add asphalt millings as they disintegrate and move around. The other is the difficulty in keeping vehicles clean during the wetter periods. Another is the smoothness of the drive affecting the neighbor kids to ride their bikes on, which I understand. The bonus is the ability to have a low sports car and have no worries about bottoming out anywhere.

 

[larry4406]

Dan - at this stage in our lives it’s only pocket change……

 

[matt_i]

Makes a guy want to get good with the concrete tools....10ksqft @ true 4" thick is approx 123 cu yards, if its $200/cu yd then approx $25k. Take a week off work and place two 10cu yd loads per day would just about get it. Definitely need some helpers there adding to the cost.

 

[gba2331]

would not let any of it be less than that 3". You have to watch them because shady characters will give you 3" at the edge and less in the middle

How do you measure the thickness? I don’t think I could judge this just by watching.

 

[njk4o5]

just make sure you use a company thats been around for a while. There are lots of Asphalt gypsies that open new companies year after year and do terrible work. Its worth paying a little more for an established company.

 

[Overboost44]

How do you measure the thickness? I don’t think I could judge this just by watching.

I know of no other way. Someone mentioned above that after compaction it may be closer to 2". As @njk4o5 mentioned, just make sure it is a reputable company. I have had plenty of people stop by and mention that they just did the house down the street and have leftover asphalt.

 

[manwithtools]

just make sure you use a company thats been around for a while. There are lots of Asphalt gypsies that open new companies year after year and do terrible work. Its worth paying a little more for an established company.

As @njk4o5 mentioned, just make sure it is a reputable company. I have had plenty of people stop by and mention that they just did the house down the street and have leftover asphalt.

Good advice for others who look at this post. All of my quotes are intentionally from local firms with over 10 years of reputation behind them. I'm well aware of the "gypsies". There is a local hotel that has a backlot full of paving trucks and equipment, all from Georgia and Alabama.

 

[manwithtools]

Makes a guy want to get good with the concrete tools....10ksqft @ true 4" thick is approx 123 cu yards, if its $200/cu yd then approx $25k. Take a week off work and place two 10cu yd loads per day would just about get it. Definitely need some helpers there adding to the cost.

No thanks. I'm retired and would not attempt that much concrete even with help. Forming, puring, finishing, striping, cutting and being without the drive for over a week. Again, no thanks. Not even in my younger days. It's too much work with too much that can go wrong on that large of a pour.

 

[ATC]

Asphalt must be cheap here. They’re doing road construction at a highway interchange here. While sitting at a red light looking at it, the on-ramp they are building is 2 lanes wide. They had the base coat on both lanes, and the top coat on the right side lane. The top coat was well over a foot thick…probably 18”.

Good luck on your driveway. I’d love to have ours done, but I would probably tear it up with my heavy equipment and trailers. And the ~$25k it would cost wouldn’t be fun. I already dread the $1500 in gravel I need this year.

 

[casmurbax]

Did you get that last quote yet?

 

[manwithtools]

Did you get that last quote yet?

Yes, $35k. Then he called back the next day and said he had a job cancelled and if I would do it today he would used the "canceled asphalt" and do the job for $30k. He's off the list now

Will likely pull the trigger in a couple of weeks with one of the ~ $30k bids we have.

 

[casmurbax]

oh how convenient of a call....