The most important thing to a good residential driveway or road is a well-built base, or foundation.

We suggest building a driveway or road just like you would build a house pad—the most important thing is the foundation.

Building the driveway at the same time as the house pad has several advantages:

• the trucks are bringing the same materials anyway
• the trucks rolling in and out compacts the dirt
• the dozer and equipment is already set up on site and there are no extra mobilization costs

If a good base material is used, you can lay asphalt or pour concrete on top at a later time. Options for a good base of crushed material include:

• concrete
• limestone
• asphalt
• granite (most expensive material)
• iron ore (seldom available)

		A ‘construction entrance’ is a term used where there will be a high volume of traffic.
		Bull rock, or 3x5-inch concrete rock, is ideal here.
		Crushed concrete as a surface material is very stable.