Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 1 Jun 18, 2016 10:16 pm We have been told by our council that we need to have 7 metres from the road up our driveway finished with BITUMEN. 2 years has passed since our initial paperwork and now they are telling us to get it done, even though we haven't finished building the house yet. They quoted us $2,300 and we are wondering if we should get someone else to do it (if it would work out cheaper) or whether we would be able to do it ourselves. I have heard of spray-on bitumen but I am not sure if it would meet council standards. I am not sure if the council would be ok with concrete, as their paperwork is confusing. I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience with this sort of thing. As I live in a rural area it is difficult to find tradies, and I don't even know what to look under. Google is no help in this situation unfortunately! Have you installed your own bitumen driveway? Was it difficult? Did you pay someone to come and install a bitumen driveway? How much did it cost? An extra difficulty for us is that we don't have transport, so can't just pop out to the shops to buy materials or equipment. Any advice appreciated, thanks! Re: Bitumen Driveway 2Jun 19, 2016 9:42 am Do they want asphalt or bitumen, if its the later then I don't see why the spray wouldn't be antiquate, how ever you may not like it (its just a gravel type layer sprayed with bitumen to make it stick in an area. Asphalt is what you see on the roads (heated rolled bitumen mix) $2300 is similar pricing to what I have looked into up here in QLD, you may be able to get it cheaper if you do the prep work (if they'll let you) as the majority of the cost is the prep layers for asphalt I want to build a bigger driveway (without a nature strip) than has been approved under my CDC. I’ve also had a DA approved to build a deck. It looks like I can do this… 0 5095 Very common on rendered homes Smaller suppliers get the lower quality raw materials 6 12236 We've had decent weather for last 7 weeks and now the drvieway has been cut out we had an evening of 50mm of rain including all the water from half the street, ground is… 0 4579 |