Properly cared for, your new drive will give you many years of service. Our aftercare guidelines have been drawn up to help you maintain your drive and to sort out any problems if they arise.

Your new drive will be made from asphalt, a mixture of hard aggregate bound together with bitumen, a flexible, black, waterproof substance derived from crude oil. There are many different types of asphalt surfacing that are used on driveways, the more common being Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA), Dense or Close-graded Bituminous Macadam (DBM), and Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA). Some of these are stronger and more durable than others, but the same basic principles apply to looking after all of them.

Our driveways are predominately surfaced with the SMA (Stone Mastic Asphalt) materials as these offer an improved durability and scuffing resistance from the forces of power steering vehicles at slow speeds compared to that of normal asphalt designs. SMA when laid can have an open textured appearance, this is a characteristic of this material and is in no way detrimental to the strength of this material.

For more information on aftercare please read the document below.