Professional Driveway Services in Norwood

Why Choose
Nick Landscapes

Almost every driveway in Norwood is a driveway on a slope, and that changes the job from the first spade in the ground. Frontages rising steeply from the pavement along Beulah Hill, Central Hill and the roads off Church Road need the gradient worked out properly, because too steep and cars ground their front bumper on the transition at the kerb, and too shallow and you lose the parking depth you were trying to create. Loose gravel is a poor choice on anything with real fall, since it migrates downhill and ends up in the gutter, so on steeper plots we'll steer you towards resin bound or block, which stay put. Water is the other constant, because a sloping frontage sheds everything it receives straight onto the public footway unless the falls, channels and soakaway are designed to catch it first, and that's before you get to the permeability rules on front garden surfacing. Underneath it all is London clay, which swells and shrinks through the seasons and will find any sub-base that was dug shallow or compacted in one lift rather than layers. On the older hill terraces a lot of frontages are also retained behind a low brick wall that has been quietly failing for years, and there's no sense laying a new surface on top of that without dealing with it. We look at all of this on site, tell you what we find, and give you one fixed itemised price.