I just built my family a 2 story home in central New York and am looking to upgrade my gravel driveway. The driveway measures approximatly 180ft from the edge of the road to the back at which point i have an approximatly 32x32ft square for parking to the immediate left, next to our home. The current driveway is comprised of approx 2 inches of "soil" that was dropped and dozed, followed by aprox 4 inches of "crusher run" which was then dumped and back bladed to compact it. The crusher run seems rather coarse to me and it was never properly compacted which made for a terrible first year snow blowing. Because of this i am compelled to asphalt pave my driveway asap which is where several questions arise.
I am looking to install an asphalt driveway, and eventually build a 32x32 attached garage in the future. In a perfect world i would build the garage first, and then pave however i have been quoted at approx 30 thousand for the garage, whereas it is going to be between 6-7 thousand to just asphalt the whole thing parking area and all. I don't see myself affording 30 thousand for at least 5 years, and i definitly don't want to continue to have the driveway from hell come wintertime.
The garage door will be at a 90 degree from the road, so i'm not sure if i should just asphalt the 180ft straight and leave the 32x32 gravel. I don't imagine that asphalt would be an ideal choice for an attached garage would it? Also i believe my local codes stipulates that i have 4 ft below grade with footers for any attached structure, so i'm not even sure how or what my options would be. If i leave it unatached and include a small breezeway, could i hypothetically pour an exposed concrete pad and leave it in the elements for 5 years? Or would it be easiest to pave it all, and just dig up the new asphalt in 5 years when building the garage? Perhaps there are other alternatives i have overlooked?
This has been stressing me all winter, as i am trying to figure out how to make this work. Unfortunatly there is no way to move the garage construction ahead short of a lucky lottery ticket. Thanks for any and all suggestions!
I am looking to install an asphalt driveway, and eventually build a 32x32 attached garage in the future. In a perfect world i would build the garage first, and then pave however i have been quoted at approx 30 thousand for the garage, whereas it is going to be between 6-7 thousand to just asphalt the whole thing parking area and all. I don't see myself affording 30 thousand for at least 5 years, and i definitly don't want to continue to have the driveway from hell come wintertime.
The garage door will be at a 90 degree from the road, so i'm not sure if i should just asphalt the 180ft straight and leave the 32x32 gravel. I don't imagine that asphalt would be an ideal choice for an attached garage would it? Also i believe my local codes stipulates that i have 4 ft below grade with footers for any attached structure, so i'm not even sure how or what my options would be. If i leave it unatached and include a small breezeway, could i hypothetically pour an exposed concrete pad and leave it in the elements for 5 years? Or would it be easiest to pave it all, and just dig up the new asphalt in 5 years when building the garage? Perhaps there are other alternatives i have overlooked?
This has been stressing me all winter, as i am trying to figure out how to make this work. Unfortunatly there is no way to move the garage construction ahead short of a lucky lottery ticket. Thanks for any and all suggestions!
paving driveway before building attached garage
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