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Ok so I need some advice please. A good friend of mine came round yesterday and was faffing about on my drive as he's got an issue with his steering rack, all whilst I was inside sorting kids and things with the wife, before I went out with him.

Last year I spent over 100k on having our house extended and part of that was a new driveway to a new double garage, with freshly laid tarmac, which has now been down 12 months.

I come out this morning to two of these -



He's obviously been sawing away at the steering (full lock, to full lock) on the spot and ripped up my tarmac.

Two questions really - one, should the tarmac do that and secondly how would you deal with the situation? (Also advice on dealing with the wife as she's not clocked it yet - deep )

I'm just thinking, it was 25+ degrees yesterday, so the Tarmac was probably quite soft

I'm no Tarmac specialist but I'd be moaning at the contractor. Doen't happen in supermarkets, so why should it happen to your driveway.

I have been reading up online and nearly every Tarmac website says 'avoid turning your steering lock to lock on a drive, especially in hot weather'.

Maybe the grade of bitumen they use on public car parks is far higher than private drives?

It'll look horrific patched up - i'm not a happy chappie. You're right though, I'm not about to fall out with him about it, he's already admitted to doing it but said it shouldn't break up like that, but I have no idea how much and how long he was sawing away, lock to lock.

Put a plant pot over it ... You'd never know then
Tbh it's three things , Shyte Tarmac , the heat ( remember the roads moving in heatwaves years ago ) and matey going lock to lock . Id be pissed off too tbh . Block paving next time

John Johnson wrote:Put a plant pot over it ... You'd never know then
Tbh it's three things , Shyte Tarmac , the heat ( remember the roads moving in heatwaves years ago ) and matey going lock to lock . Id be pissed off too tbh . Block paving next time

A ray of sunshine as ever!!!

I think I'll get the builder round and have a word, he's a decent lad but doubt he'll do much. My mate has offered to pay but I can't expect him to lay out for re-laying the whole drive...can I?!

<beep> happens.

Lol at first I thought you'd dropped petrol on it as I did that on our old drive and made a right mess of it

I recon a lot of research but that can be patched. Not a crappy council hobby like on the streets but there must be a company that specialises in that.

You've now put me right off Tarmac... Block paving when I finally get my drive done!

Shinobi675 wrote:I recon a lot of research but that can be patched. Not a crappy council hobby like on the streets but there must be a company that specialises in that.

You've now put me right off Tarmac... Block paving when I finally get my drive done!

I I agree, I'd love to have afforded block paving, but the budget stops somewhere

jaysrs4 wrote:

Shinobi675 wrote:I recon a lot of research but that can be patched. Not a crappy council hobby like on the streets but there must be a company that specialises in that.

You've now put me right off Tarmac... Block paving when I finally get my drive done!

I I agree, I'd love to have afforded block paving, but the budget stops somewhere

I've been waiting to do the drive for 3 years, what's an extra year!

...errrrm, it's a year!
From right now it's:

• 31,536,000 seconds or
  525,600 minutes or
  8760 hours or
  365 days or;
  52 weeks and 1 day

bam_bam wrote:...errrrm, it's a year!
From right now it's:

• 31,536,000 seconds or
  525,600 minutes or
  8760 hours or
  365 days or;
  52 weeks and 1 day

You can come Tarmac me feckin drive

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