Crushed shell driveways in Centerville
A village whose oldest house went up around 1690 and whose character was set in the mid nineteenth century.
Centerville grew around its village center, and most of what gives it character was built in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Driveways here serve houses of very different ages, sometimes on the same street.
An old house rarely has a modern driveway
House age is a reasonable guide to what we will find underneath.
Driveways attached to genuinely old properties were often never built as driveways at all. They began as cart tracks or side yards and were surfaced later, sometimes repeatedly, without anyone excavating or basing them.
That is why two driveways on the same street can need completely different work. One has a compacted base from a rebuild twenty years ago; the other has three inches of shell sitting directly on the same soil it has sat on since the house was put up.
A test hole takes ten minutes and settles the question. We would rather dig one than guess and be wrong about the price.
Crushed stone driveways in Centerville
Whether crushed stone is right here depends less on the village than on what is under the specific driveway. On a sound base, either material performs.
Where a driveway has never been excavated and sits on garden soil, stone is more forgiving while the base beds in.
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