North East Driveways How We Transform Your Driveway.

The aim of this article is to show you how we at North East Driveways and Joinery Services transform a old existing surface area to a new one. With over 13 years in the pattern imprinted concrete industry i have always aim to to give a customer a insight to what is expected and what goes on with a job soo if your thinking or having a Pattern Imprinted Concrete driveway or patio done then i hope this article helps to give you an insight to what happens and whats involved with the process of one.

So as you can see this is a customer existing Driveway in the Sunderland area and he asked us if we could dig out the whole area and lay him a pattern imprinted concrete one because he was parking issues with only having a small driveway.

So we gave him a price to knock down the wall and lay and basalt grey decorative concrete driveway with the design of a ashler pattern with a charcoal border and a gloss finish seal and as you can see from the above picture this is what we did for him.

At the start of every job there is always the digging out process and removing of the waste as you can see in the picture and as very common question we get asked all the time too, we thought we would give you a insight to how we remove the rubble and waste and how we get rid of it. Also if you have notice we aim to keep all waste on the area we are doing as this helps keep the dirt down and stop any inconvenience for the neighbours. We also aim to get rid of the waste with in the first day but only if the job is fully dug out and ready for the grab lorry.

We always aim to lay a 100 mm of concrete in our driveways and for a domestic driveway of a imprinted concrete area. the above picture is at the front of this driveway a joining on too the public foot path. The photo is only a insight to show you the depth of what we lay too and not a job that is fully prep up and ready to go for concreting.

As you can see from the above picture we are part way through the prepping of this job a couple more hours on here and we where done and ready for concreting. The main aim in prepping is to make sure the levels are correct  drainage and manhole covers are at the correct hight and for a imprinted concrete driveway to have at least 100 mm of type one stone for a foundation and for the job to be whacked off with a compactor plate.  

Now the most messy part of a imprinted concrete job, the imprinting part, once the concrete is laid and the colour has been floated off and the areas that need edging in, have been edged in the release is applied and we have to print the job unfortunately Release agents are very dusty but its necessarily that this has to be done to create the two tone effect that appears once a imprinted concrete job is sealed. 

Once a Imprinted Concrete area has been done and laid and after at least 24 hours after a job has been laid the cleaning up process begins. We aim at North East Driveways And Joinery Services to Clean the full area down and all windows and doors and all wall gelled areas and also because sometimes the release agents blows over to next door we also clean down the neighbours windows and doors as this seems to be area release agents like to collect at. 

Once a job has been all cleaned down and is all dry the finishing touches are done and the surface area is sealed there is too type of choices for sealant the most popular is a gloss finish but there is also mat.

Well i hope this article has been useful and helpful please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments, likes and shares and i hope this give you a insight to how a job is done and what is involved work wise.

If you have been interested or are thinking of having a imprint concrete driveway or patio area done they are great for easy maintenance and are hassel free for weeds if you would like a Quotation for one or just some friendly advice then please hesitate to give a call at www.northeastdriveways.com

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