Afternoon ladies and gents,

I'm in need of some inspiration with my own driveway and wanted to see some good examples of well presented driveways. So that I can get an idea of lighting,plants,floor, colours etc.

Post them up . I'll try and dig out a pict of my shabby drive

Thanks

 

How big is your house. It you must have a canny bit of land on the front if your gonna do all that to it.

 

Either you've used slightly misleading terms for what you're planning or as Glenny Boy says, your driveway is going to be fucking amazing.


Cheers,
Grant

 

This is my driveway, impregnated concrete it's easy to clean looks smart and not to bad on price!

 

are you going for this kind off look?

its not my house btw.

 

Lol at rich

 

My name has been changed for ages now just in case you didnt know fella lol. I will happily let you all me glenny boy if you like matey lol.

 

Haha thanks mate!! You'll always be Glenny Boy to me, regardless of what your username says.


Cheers,
Grant

 

Lol I bloody wish.

I was kind of hoping alittle bit of everything loll

 

heres ours the day we moved in:





After the driveway:





And after new windows etc as well:



All done by me! and the polo has now been replaced with something a bit nicer as well:

 

heres my drive, with someones xr2 in the way, i need to concrete it or something as the mud is coming through the stones a bit now

 

Brilliant improvements mate.

 

nice and simple, and a gravel makes a excellent theft deterent!!

 

lock block certainly does look better than chuckies, was it hard/expensive to do?

 

cheers! done the inside of the house as well over the last year, got the back garden to do this year then should be done!

 

it does have that advantage i suppose, nice garage

 

was that at me? laying the pavings wasnt too bad, it was the hardcore and sand first that was hard work that lot including new fence all the way round the back garden and turf etc came to about Ł3000 materials only... cheapest quote i had for just the driveway without the fencing came to Ł5500...

 

Awww how sweet.......

 

not actually but garden house is good

 

Yeah sorry, was aimed at you lol, ive got a digger so the ground work will be a bit easier, not sure weather to concrete a bit an put new stones on the rest, or to lock block upto the garage.

 

Sweet, nice work fella and nice ride to!

 

Just a quick note! not sure on the details but I think you need planing now if you are going to block pave or concrete your front gardens, not needed if you are just replacing the existing drive and also not needed if you use the new type of paver's which have larger spacing gaps to aide with drainage, and also OK with gravel

I'm sure someone else in the know will give us the full details

 

our neighbours needing planning to do their driveway with paving, the bloke came round with measuring equipemtn to check for levels and stuff for drainage etc but didn't tell them not to tdrain it into my garden

 

yup thats right,

Needs to have a permeable surface or drainage for rain water.

So if you get your kerb dropped and drive is not following the above then its a no no to the drop kerb.

Since 2008 i think?

 

This was what it was like when we moved in

Ended up taking most of the wall down to get this out

This is what its like at the moment. Wanted to do it in indian stone but it would have cost twice as much. The retaining (sp) wall needs facing off in stone and some railings put round to finish it off

 

that's a tidy drive, wish I had that much space and privacy!

nice job!

 

thats such a stress relieving view,beer in hand enjoying the peace and quiet,hope those gates can't be lifted off?

 

HAHA HAHA good lad.

 

At least some loves meeeeee.

 

Heres some pics of my drive.