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Thank you everyone for your help. I will try to see if another company can come out to view it although I guess they may be reluctant as nothing in it for them? I understand they had the challenge of drive being steep and it coming in from the steps side too, and concrete to go around for the fence posts etc but I am disappointed and just wanted to know if I was being “picky” or if it’s not a great job. Worried as we paid mostly cash but also they said it’s guaranteed but I guess if he won’t even come to view it and discuss I’m not going to get very far with that.

I’m worried that may have sunk also. It was also flat on completion. This is the drive on completion if this helps.

Thank you. It’s probably hard to see from the one photo I’ve added but the pavement at the bottom of the drive is where any delivery drivers pull up half on the pavement and half on the road. We have CCTV and nobody has been on the drive. It has definitely got worse over time. There are lots of lines on it as they said they struggled to smooth it over with the various angles of the drive but it was a lot smoother when it was first done a few months ago. He was meant to come again yesterday but has again not turned up. I’ve attached a photo of the drive from the doorway to show the angles they had to work with in case this helps.

It was not driven on for 2 weeks and it was barricaded off for over a week. If a van pulled up at most it would be on the flat pavement directly in front - not on drive. It was a driveway before but had been rubble for a year post extension. It looks like lots of lines from where they tried to make it flat if that makes sense?

We’ve had no delivery lorry’s or pallets delivered - the drive was unused for 2 weeks and nothing on there since apart from when we started to put the Mini on it but we don’t park that low it goes up the top:-(

Unfortunately it wasn’t there the day of completion we were happy with how it looked for a week or 2! Such a lot of money for us

No it wasn’t there on completion it seems to have “appeared” on settling? I wouldn’t have stumped up the cash If it was like that on the day. Just so disappointing it’s such a lot of money. Yes a proper company and meant to be guaranteed for 20 years

Thanks Mark, the only equipment they had on the drive were the whacker etc no large equipment not used for driveways. It’s right in the middle of the drive (which is steep) and is really noticeable- I’m just wondering is this is “normal” and I just have to ignore it or if I should expect him to fix it. He’s offered to patch it but says it will be noticeable

Hello all! I’m hoping for some advice please. We had our driveway done in the Summer by a local, highly recommended team. Unfortunately I don’t think the finish of the drive is correct and have been asking the owner to come back to see it / discuss, which he keeps saying he will do but hasn’t. He has said he could patch the area but it would be visible. I am wondering if it’s unreasonable to expect for the top layer to be re-done? And if so how I word this to him please? This cost us £5,000. We paid £500 deposit bank transfer and the rest one lump sum of cash. Many thanks