Tarmac is relatively easy to dig up. You need a pick axe and a shovel and to hire a bin for the waste. Laying a concrete driveway though is not easy but your driveway is small enough even for somebody who never poured and levelled concrete.The tarmac was there when I bought the house about 17 years ago. It's now old and shedding stones (which keep being walked into the house). It's not a large drive - fits a hatchbach with a couple of feet to spare at each end.
I'd love to replace it with a drive that's more ecological - some kind of system of concrete blocks that allows grass to grow (grass permeable paving or ground reinforcement grass paving system). Mainly as I'd like something that can soak up heavy rain, especially as a lot of neighbours have concreted their entire gardens.
Who do I contact to get rid of the tarmac, though? Garden landscapers, tarmac applying people, who does this kind of work? And any idea what it would cost?
concrete is worse than tarmac in terms of ecology and water soakage, if there is stones coming lose on tarmac it means it is also probably porous and water gets through it anyway. The simple solution is just chippings . I actually dug up a concrete driveway and made the lawn bigger years agoTarmac is relatively easy to dig up. You need a pick axe and a shovel and to hire a bin for the waste. Laying a concrete driveway though is not easy but your driveway is small enough even for somebody who never poured and levelled concrete.
I'd love to replace it with a drive that's more ecological - some kind of system of concrete blocks that allows grass to grow (grass permeable paving or ground reinforcement grass paving system). Mainly as I'd like something that can soak up heavy rain, especially as a lot of neighbours have concreted their entire gardens.
I didn't know that it was bad, tarmac rubble, if that is the case it should be more widely flagged that tarmac is terrible for disposal and therefore should not be used on private driveways, no wonder this stuff is fly tipped all over the country by unscrupulous tarmac operators . The practice of digging up lawns to put down concrete or tarmac should be heavily discouraged by all the greenies.Then I drove to another, 25km away, a private disposal site. When the bulldozer guy saw that my “rubble” was in fact tarmac he was none too pleased. Said it’s not part of their licensing any more to dispose of tarmac because it’s so poisonous.
Joe , the problem with tar in the more recently used is the bitumen content and in the older laid tar is the coal tar product is carcinogenic. Some quarries that produce tar will take it ( newer bitumen based type )as they can recycle it again. The coal tar has to be disposed of as a hazardous material ( murphy environmental, Hollywood )I didn't know that it was bad, tarmac rubble, if that is the case it should be more widely flagged that tarmac is terrible for disposal and therefore should not be used on private driveways, no wonder this stuff is fly tipped all over the country by unscrupulous tarmac operators . The practice of digging up lawns to put down concrete or tarmac should be heavily discouraged by all the greenies.
Tarmac is relatively easy to dig up. You need a pick axe and a shovel and to hire a bin for the waste. Laying a concrete driveway though is not easy but your driveway is small enough even for somebody who never poured and levelled concrete.
concrete is worse than tarmac in terms of ecology and water soakage, if there is stones coming lose on tarmac it means it is also probably porous and water gets through it anyway. The simple solution is just chippings . I actually dug up a concrete driveway and made the lawn bigger years ago
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