Glad I found your video on shoulders. Our driveway ( Wisconsin) winds up a hill ( 500 feet long) with steep edges to the driveway. We went with having the former asphalt milled for a base, compacted and just been asphalted. We prepped by adding ripwrap and aggregates all along the driveway. We thought we had it pretty high…. thought we did a great job. Well the milling base ended up 13” high and that much higher than the the ground and now asphalted even higher as they probably should have trucked out more of the milled asphalt? We are a bit perplexed on how we should properly backfill the shoulder and dirt will only erode and how long after asphalting ( done yesterday) should we wait to fill in the shoulder? Did not expect it to be that high! Thanks and for your video!

My driveway has curved and broken pieces off the edges- I'm thinking of just putting a straight piece of 2 x 4 and adding asphalt patching to it. Hopefully it makes everything straight again.

Are cement edges better to then hold the asphalt in place? What are these edges called when contracting this?

I have a friend whose asphalt deforms if you turn your wheels without moving. Why does that happen and can it be fixed?

You have to wait for asphalt to cure before you backfill the sides so the asphalt can cure, your video seems to give impression you can just backfill it shortly thereafter. Not what i have been told😮. How long does a driveway take to cure before you drive on it? You never mentioned the environment re temperature and heat causing cure times to be varied. If you can smell the asphalt it is not ready to drive on i have heard. Also important not turn your tires on it or leave a car parked on it for a prolonged period but what is this period of time. Also put boards under neath trailer hitches or tires of heavier vehicles and for-how long? You did not mention driveway sealer and how long to wait to put in on. I see now why some get concrete.

My Roller has a " edge wheel "on it , i can lower up and down and it has a water jet on it , but it only works well on straight roads.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Our home was just finished in November and we just have a stone driveway and parking area. We are having it paved and I was concerned about the edges and how they should be finished. It seems if you get it "shouldered" well- it doesn't matter so much about the edges. What I DON"T want it those side cracks from FedEx or UPS drivers going over the edge.

I have paved meny meny driveways . it’s all about money when possible a driveway should be at least 14 foot wide. This way you don’t drive off the edges in the first place but every customer insist on 10 foot wide to save money and they insist on getting many many estimates, and finding the cheapest guy. so now the good companies have to lower their prices to be competitive to a guy that gave us satellite estimate and then of course he goes to the job and jacks up the price plus most of the time you get to a driveway and you don’t know how the base is until you put the paving machine on it and manipulate the ground grading it Now you’re in a position where it really needs to be reinforced with Stone or asphalt but you did not get enough money for the job in the first place so now you just have to do your best. When really it needs to be all dug out and 6 inches of stone put in and then left for a good month but then the job turns into two days and the paving contractor loses money. if you give the correct price to begin with you don’t get the job the cheap guy does.

Always tamp the edges before and after top surface is rolled and just after paved while hot unless its a highway. Raker should be on each side behind screed. Then push rock up to edge to hide edge after.

A rake man isnt doing much anyway, and it doesn't nend the rake.

Thank you for the video is very important to know these things I'm looking for a company to give me a estimate but I don't know who can trust because I seen a company that did my neighbor driveway and I know they didn't do it right plus they charge him a lot of money about 7,000 for the space it was to much money

I can smell the tar now

Whats best for edges- gravel, dirt or recycled asphalt

Like most endeavors, the test of quality is the passing of time. This opens the door to the unethical who know they are installing a subpar product but know they will get away with it. To your point, driving over the edge is detrimental to the driveway, so how is the entrance edge of the asphalt driveway finished?

Love it. Down to earth and no BS and well presented.

Is there such a thing as a "floating" driveway? I'm about to have my driveway paved and I notice dirt with a bit of stone in it. I ask the contractor, "where is the crushed stone?" He tells me that the asphalt will be laid over the top of the dirt and stone, as a floating driveway. I never seen such a thing.(?)

Very helpful, thank you.

Watching this video tells me that all my money went to waste, cos we got water pooling, cracks from the plants underneath it's ridiculous.

we need to normalize DIY asphalt. Some of the pricing blacktoppers want is ridiculous.

Save up and get concrete

If this guy says driveway anymore I'm going to die

Is asphalt driveway cheaper than concrete drivewa?

Beautiful. Driveway and excellent. Workmanship.

This is fantastic! Good to see after all these years you guys are still in business and responding to comments! What are your service areas?

big help and indeed honest vlog.

I have them in the north ga mountain tell me 2in is good for a new road with an incline lol

I love when there's no pitch/grade for the driveway in general . The homeowner's problem becomes mine and they don't want to spend the extra money to fix their problem..... 😂 .

Good info. Thanks.

"...thousands upon thousands of driveways...". Really?

There's different types of asphalt driveway mix class 2

Hey I got two quotes for my driveway that were within a couple hundred dollars. One installer said I didnt need a gravel base, while the other said he would be putting one in. Should I go with the one installling a base? There's hard clay soil and some gravel driveway left there now, but the gravel is worn away

How many feet would you consider a long driveway?

I understand that if it's thin it's no good. I am a paving contractor. Are you saying you never get a puddle? And as far as a base over clay. You can't dig all the clay out of it and if it's clay you should put a geotextile fabric to separate the base from the clay. You can put 2 ft of base over clay but the clay will eventually push through the base. Where is your geotextile fabric mat? Maybe you are the flyby lol

5” lay on a driveway your smoking crack . 2 1/2” is fine

Nice 👍

Great channel how many inches of ashalpt before compacting ??

Do u need tocompact after removing old driveway