Driveway Maintenance

One of the most important reasons for maintaining your driveway is safety. Not keeping up maintenance of your driveway, can lead to big problems further down the line. Cracks, potholes and washouts that occur through the heavy usage of the driveway (4wd especially) or other external factors, can lead to serious safety hazards. When you maintain your driveway periodically, you can reduce the risk of incidents such as sliding or loose stones damaging your vehicle.

Extreme weather conditions, such as heavy rainfall can really do a number on your driveway, very quickly. Your driveway can become slippery or loose, which then gets worse and worse, washing out and sometimes washing onto the adjacent highway. This then has consequences for your safety and those near you.

Creating a driveway that is functional as well as aesthetically pleasing is something that here at GCE Earthworks we excel at. We have several machines that work together as well as skilled operatives that produce outstanding results and beautiful driveways for many years to come.

Council specs change periodically, and therefore we always consult with you, the client to ensure that their (Councils) directives are followed to the letter, to save any hassle from them, down the line.

For paddock access and rural driveways, there are still strict guidelines to follow and we ensure that drainage away from the road surface is adequate to allow good rainwater run off, without compromising safety and durability.

Sometimes Council may require dish drains alongside any existing thoroughfare, which means you as a property owner will need to have a piped entry into your driveway, to allow water to stay off the road by means of the dishdrain. This is something Council will advise you on as there may be significant catchment for that area to keep from the road. And ditto if you want to keep water from your driveway, it’s good practice to incorporate drainage alongside so that the driveway sheds water away from it’s surface and toward a dam or holding area, via dish-drain or swale.

Council is now recommending 2 coat bitumen seal where any driveway meets the highway or thoroughfare so that the join doesn’t de-laminate. This consists of an apron of bitumen using two layers of different asphalt mixes. There are specialist companies that carry out this job, which we can organise for you.

DON’T, whatever you do, fall for the “We’ve got x load of asphalt/tarmac left over, we can do you a deal?” scam that circulates the area regularly.

These cowboys take your money, never to be seen again..