Cost to redo driveway

[lupi]

Wondering if anyone has done this to get an idea of $$$$.

At the minimum I need my crumbling concrete driveway redone. If going through that, I'd also be very interested in expanding to add either a one or 2 length addition next to the existing one.

 

[Jimzz]

Where do you live?

This can vary greatly based on soil type, strength needed, local labor cost, local concrete cost, landfill/dump rates, etc...

I would get several bids on a project like this and do your duty to background them all. A good driveway can last decades a bad one might last only a couple years before problems come up.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Figure out how thick you want the slab done and call around to find what your local concrete prices are. You'll likely want to do some chemicals and fiberglass in the mix so it holds together. Here, it's about $107-110 per yard...

A few years ago, it was cheaper to do concrete than asphalt because the oil prices were up....not sure if that's the case this instant. Consider asphalt. as an alternative.

 

[edro]

$10,000

 

[cabri]

You will need to get a cost on breaking up the existing driveway and removing it

• You can try to bust it up into pieces yourself
• You will need a dump truck w/ a front loader to haul driveway chunks away.

Below you can do yourself with time

• You will need to grade and frame the old driveway.
• You may need to excavate, grade and frame the new driveway extension
• You will need to grade and frame the new driveway extension

You then have a concrete company deliver/pour the proper number of cubic yards

Below you can do yourself with help

• You will need to spread/level the poured concrete

Below you can do yourself

• You will then need to remove the framing.

A professional paving company should be able to provide you a quote based on the square footage of the old and new driveway.

 

[Blanky]

Since you didn't provide dimensions I am estimating around $150-200 including labor on a new driveway.

 

[Ban Bot]

Homewyse places a 900 sq ft concrete drive way at $3800-$5300 in my area.

I don't know if this is accurate but I am guessing a good ballpark. We are looking (long term) to do a brick paver driveway on our 60' x 15' drive. There are a couple large roots that have significantly disturbed the asphalt driveway. I scoped out the materials and they would be about $3,500-$4,000 for the bricks, gravel, and sand. Homewyse comes up with similar numbers for materials.

 

[Greenman]

Around here it's would be about ten bucks a square foot to remove and replace a concrete driveway.

 

[DrPizza]

Great answers above, and price is going to vary tremendously with where you live. Some areas will require a building permit, some areas will not, etc.

If you're crazy, and have access to two things: transportation to take loads of broken up concrete, place to take the broken concrete, you might be able to do the demo of the old driveway yourself. Back-breaking work, busting up the concrete, picking up the chunks, and hauling them away. But doing so by hand would (provided the ground hasn't heaved since the driveway was originally put in) take care of 90% of the grading/sub surface work. Have you seen places with signs that say "clean fill wanted"? That means they don't want wood or other organic materials, or garbage - rocks, concrete, asphalt, dirt ,etc. is what they want. If so, you have a free place to take the debris to. You can rent a jackhammer at rental places; I think Home Depots rent them too. Or, one hell of a sledge hammer (post maul) if you're nuts. Then, you just need to do a little digging around the outside for placement of the frame, a load or two of crushed limestone to make up for what was stuck to the underside of the concrete, etc.

 

[Greenman]

Great answers above, and price is going to vary tremendously with where you live. Some areas will require a building permit, some areas will not, etc.

If you're crazy, and have access to two things: transportation to take loads of broken up concrete, place to take the broken concrete, you might be able to do the demo of the old driveway yourself. Back-breaking work, busting up the concrete, picking up the chunks, and hauling them away. But doing so by hand would (provided the ground hasn't heaved since the driveway was originally put in) take care of 90% of the grading/sub surface work. Have you seen places with signs that say "clean fill wanted"? That means they don't want wood or other organic materials, or garbage - rocks, concrete, asphalt, dirt ,etc. is what they want. If so, you have a free place to take the debris to. You can rent a jackhammer at rental places; I think Home Depots rent them too. Or, one hell of a sledge hammer (post maul) if you're nuts. Then, you just need to do a little digging around the outside for placement of the frame, a load or two of crushed limestone to make up for what was stuck to the underside of the concrete, etc.

You must still be young doc. I own 3 jack hammers, and I still get a bobcat with a highram and a demo bucket for anything bigger than a hundred square feet. Life is way to short to spend it making gravel.

 

[lupi]

Yeah not doing this myself. Removed an old much smaller concrete patio and ended up shredding both sets of tendons in both elbows, but I kept on schedule!

Current driveway is roughly 7*40. I've seen quite a few in the general area done ove the last year or so, so thinking maybe it wasn't that expensive.

What I have now is surely from original construction, consist of a very high percent of aggregate consisting mostly of 2-3 inch stones. Once is starts to go bad in an area it chips up extremely easy around it.