Nothing says glamorous like having your driveway repaved! Just keeping it real! It's been a few years since we've last had our driveway paved...and since then...the city has torn up and repaved the end of the drive three times over the years. (since they own the first x number of feet).
First time they tore everything up...including the front lawn..was to upgrade our area to add us to the city's sewer system. Up until that point...home owners in our neighbourhood had their own septic tanks. And regulations require home owners to have their tanks emptied and either filled with sand or removed from the property. We opted to have ours removed...of course now we had the back lawn area dug up to remove and and the front lawn torn up to hook us on to the new system. That meant putting in a new front lawn (at our own expense)...and the city paved the area of the drive they had destroyed.
The very next year...the city upgraded our neighbourhood again...to connect everyone to the city water supply...rather than each home having it's own well. Again...the front lawn and driveway was dug up...and we were connected to city water.
Now it did not matter if you chose not to connect to either of these services...you were going to be charged a monthly fee anyways. For example...the neighbours to the right of us...did not connect to city water...but they pay for it. Go figure. They will have to connect at some point...as we now have water meters and billed for the water we use. Which is fine for us....we use less water than say a family of five so why should we be paying the same amount. Cheaper to only pay for the water you use.
Where was I going with all this? Oh...yes. Once we had the lawn and end of drive repaired for a second time...the city decided it was time to put in new culverts and sidewalks! So...round three!
So, now the end of our drive has quite a slope...as opposed to being flat...miserable during the winter when snow and ice builds up.
I've spend the last couple of weeks getting paving quotes from paving companies...and it turns out there is quite a difference in cost. The company we chose, has their own asphalt plant...so there is no markup on the price like there would be if a company has to purchase the asphalt and make a bit a money on the mark up. Quite a mark up it is too...to the tune of $600 or more.
So we chose the company that makes their own asphalt...they will level the driveway...put down a new layer of gravel base and then a layer of fresh asphalt. Around the end of July.
And pool update...since summer has finally arrived here...of course...we want our pool up & running. I stopped in to pool shop...and was advised we are "next on the list". Story of my life. With rain in the forecast tomorrow and Monday being Canada Day...it's safe to say, if the weather is good...we won't see them until next week. I was advised the new liner we chose in April has arrived..so weather permitting...keeping fingers crossed we will be functional next week.
Today is my grand daughter's high school graduation in Nova Scotia...so motoring across the Confederation Bridge to attend the ceremonies!
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