Tar and Chip Driveway

Tim Carter, of http://AsktheBuilder.com, shows a different kind of driveway than most people in the tri state have.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• tar
• and
• chip
• driveway
• concrete
• cement
• blacktop
• asphalt
• traction
• house
• gravel
• chips
• stone
• stones
• tim
• carter
• ask
• builder

[masonmonster1]

how does the tar and chip driveway hold put with a good rain? The gravel that I have on my driveway keeps getting washed out would this be a better solution?

[AsktheBuilder]

@masonmonster1 I want you to think this out yourself. Have you *ever* gotten tar on your hands? How sticky was it and how hard was it to get off your hands? Now think....... What happens when the stone chips get into the hot tar and it cools?

[deptistill]

How can I remove old gravel and tar from a driveway in an area that I would prefer grass to grow?

[AsktheBuilder]

@deptistill I can think of any number of things. A shovel, a pick, dynamite, an excavator, a backhoe, a skid-steer loader, unemployed people in your area. Just get creative.

[asphalt734]

these are the "side" roads in ohio

[deptistill]

@AsktheBuilderThanks, because while I wasn't looking, someone dumped a gravel-like cemented substance on both sides of my lawn as if they were trying to make me two driveways. I don't know who did it, but I just needed to know how to get it up. It is embedded in the ground like cement. I preferred grass in those areas.

[darensmiles4]

@AsktheBuilder not everyone uses a plow... theres such equipment as backhoes and loaders that are utilized in removing snow...

[testa375L]

will this work in the snow becouse i plow my road to the farm with a dozer will the stone come up

[AsktheBuilder]

@Mostlyfun Thanks for the clarification. We'll let the pavement contractors battle it out with the roofers on this one. I'll wager that the great driveway contractors will talk all about crowning the drive, secrets to getting the base right, the variety of stones used in the base, geotextile matting, etc. I'm not saying a roofer doesn't know about this, I'm saying that a roofer doesn't necessarily have the full depth of knowledge. A driveway contractor knows what flashing is, but can he install?

[Mostlyfun]

@AsktheBuilder I'm not a paver or roofer I’m a commercial / institutional

stone mason who just so happened to put stone on a house for a roofing contractor and he did my driveway as a trade. (Screw the tax man). At the time he told me that it was different tar than roofing tar. But it was in his kettle and sprayed with his sprayer.

You don't actually think paving driveways is as difficult as roofing do you?

Driveways looking great after 7 years.