Homeowners, Don’t Disregard Your Driveways
Beyond basements and attics, a home’s most overlooked area is often its driveway. For many owners, driveways are a mere functional feature separating their house from the street. However, a driveway is also the literal gateway to the home. Seen from this angle, maintaining your driveway becomes a must.
Investing in Pavement
As rural residents know, dirt and gravel driveways wash out in bad weather and degrade swiftly with heavy use. For durability, a driveway must be smoothly surfaced with a hard material. Currently, the most common paving solutions are asphalt and concrete.
A mixture of bitumen, sand and gravel, asphalt provides soft support for vehicles and their drivers. Creating a flexible finish that’s hard to crack, asphalt is the preferred pavement for colder climates. Although periodic resealing is required, asphalt is overall cheap to install and repair.
Costlier than asphalt, concrete’s mix of crushed rock, cement and water … Read More
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