[fintstone]

Originally Posted by dad911

I don't know about NH, but around here, pavers are $15+ per sf, concrete $6-7, patterned concrete about same as pavers. Paved/asphalt is about $3 per sf.

The prep is key to paving, need a good base of compacted soil, then 4-6" of compacted roadstone (stone with stone dust mixed in) If they grade and pave using existing stone, you'll be lucky to get 7 years.

And don't believe the guys selling driveway seal coats. My driveway is 30 years old, never sealed on a good shale/stone base. Just getting first cracks now. Neighbors seal every year, and have replaced & cracking driveways. Sealing holds in moisture, cracks in winter. IMHO asphalt needs to breath.

This is good info! What do you do when you get the cracks. I see some folks fill them with a tube, but others have some sort of repaving effort over the old material. Is the repair equivalent to the original job, or less since less material is used (most of the original paving left in place)? I assume that is not "sealing"?

Also, does the patterned concrete hold up reasonably well to the light car traffic a driveway would see? I assume it would.