I don't know how great you are at being a handyman. But your video skills are amazing. That was a simple answer to a great DIY project. Keep up the great content. Thanks 😊
also on a new driveway a heavy duty barrier lining would of be helpful. you will see why in a year or two. i was hoping for new ideas on how to redo my driveway, but you did exactly what i did!! same stakes and same timbers ( mine where pressure treated cant tell with yours) mine get run over constantly. also, you can sit the next timber under the last one and mark a line for cutting, if its not a straight line. that way they fit together better. you might get 10 years if your lucky. ( in my experience, done it twice so far getting ready for a third).
Thanks for watching and for the comments!! We did get treated timbers as well. I really wanted to do a barrier but the guy insisted the crushed asphalt would kill what’s under it with the heat. I’m sure I’ll be killing weeds for years to come unfortunately, wasn’t the best call to make. Again, thanks for the comments and for checking out our video!!! 🙏🏻💪🏻
Thanks for the demo. We need to redo ours. The lumber was not pressure treated due to cost but now is disintegrating. From time to time the lumber gets run over and some are completely splintered up. We actually used rebar to anchor. (When we replace the lumber the rebar will be reused.) Also, didn’t use weed barrier but wish we did. Lessons learned.
Thanks so much for the comment! The crushed asphalt turned out great for us and the Timbers along the edges lasted up until we sold the house a year ago, no issues as far as I know still even now.
Just a question....how long are the nails you are using. I can only get 1' I found they were just a little too light and sometimes too short (as were the one-foot pieces of 1/2"-rebar....so I ended up using 3/4" rebar in 12-18" lengths, which gave a bit more stability.
Me and my kids feel yalls pain lol. We had 16 tons of dirt brought in to fill around our pool that was dug out in the backyard. 6 days of non stop wheelbarrows and shoveling. And we got it knocked out. Not fun after 8hr and 10hr work days.
That's true!! This house is old enough that's for sure, but it's super close to the old highway, so I think if it were a septic it would be placed further back.
I have a project coming up. A driveway approximately 1/2 acre long, not sure what the foot conversions are, about 9 foot wide. I had planned on hand digging the base down to approximately 6 inches, compacting the dirt. Lay a thick landscape barrier down, place bricks on both sides of the driveway then place about 100 tonnes of asphalt grinding down. Now I’m thinking of doing landscape timbers and 100 tonnes of P26 and crushed limestone. I have already done a blueprint of how the driveway will be placed, it will go from the end of our street and connect into my neighbors property via a gate, we have worked the details out as we both own an acre between the two of us. What do you think I should do as the final product? I have pictures of the property if you need to do an assessment or I can take a video and post it. Thank you.
Your plan for the asphalt overlay sounds the best for long-term in my opinion, but if you aren't planning on staying for a long time the limestone would probably be fine. I'm partial to the asphalt look as well personally.
That concrete slab is a burial vault . The firat concrete vaults date back to the 1880s so its possible ur on a graveyard. I live in GA and cemeteries(with tombstones) are still getting demolished for farming and building. And not just the black cemeteries.
Could you please tell me about your landscape timbers and where you bought them. Are they treated with anything and what type of wood are they? And size also. Thank you
Very true! I wish I had done something, hopefully they will hold up awhile. This was a quick fix type project for us, and they’ve held up so far. Thanks for the advice and for checking out the video! 💪🏻
They are landscape timbers... Treated and rated for landscaping. They dont do aswell on concrete. Dries and rots them. Its cool im a time traveler 🙂 two years in time but not very good at it since im in time with time.😔 Im working on it...
Have you had any trouble with weeds coming through? I would like to top my gravel driveway with a fresh coat of gravel or something but I thought I'd need to lay some sort of fabric first.
We had one small area with weeds but we only had to treat it once and they never came back. I definitely recommend a commercial grade weedblocker to lay down prior to the rocks but if you’ve already got some rocks there it may not be doable. Good luck on your project and thanks so much for reaching out!!
It’s out in the front yard by the main road - definitely possible, maybe an old septic but we have traditional city sewage drains not septic now. I think it might be a really old walk path out to the front.
Hey I've never considered this type of asphalt driveway. You've sparked an interest for me, thanks. Is this less erosive for running rain water over crushed rock?
We don't track anything into the house, it stays really solid. We did our drive infant of our shop too, now back there some of the pebbles get kicked into the shop, but I sweep them back out easily. I feel like it's more 'Loose' in the winter / cooler months.
I don't live at this property any longer, but I can tell you that as far as I've seen when driving by to see friends living in the area, everything still looks good! We had one timber that came up every now and again because delivery drivers would drive over it, but other than that they held up well. I do wish I had stained / sealed them to retain the color, they got grey pretty quick.
We did sell this house but I can say that up until we left we only had problems with one timber - it was basically in a spot that people would bump with their tires when pulling in from the side street. It would sometimes roll, pulling up the nails. Other than that, everything stayed in place very well!
We sold the house this year, about a month ago. Everything up until that point still looked really good! We did a weed spray a couple times, then that was the end of the weeds growing through. I think the heat and weight of the asphalt helped with that too. The timbers only had a couple with issues, and moreso my placement of them. Once I adjusted they stayed in place really well!
Might have been no doubt!! I never did no, but I'm guessing it was the old driveway or an old walkpath up to the house, the house is about 90 years old.
This is the most honest home project video I’ve ever seen. Love it
Thank you for that feedback, truly! I try my best to keep it real! 🤙🏻
I don't know how great you are at being a handyman. But your video skills are amazing. That was a simple answer to a great DIY project. Keep up the great content.
Thanks 😊
Thanks I appreciate it! Just trying to do my best, that’s all I can ask for really 🙏🏻
Thanks for the inspiration. I think I'm going to do this myself.
Hey!!! Good luck and thank you for your support! I hope the project goes great - circle back with any advice for others
also on a new driveway a heavy duty barrier lining would of be helpful. you will see why in a year or two. i was hoping for new ideas on how to redo my driveway, but you did exactly what i did!! same stakes and same timbers ( mine where pressure treated cant tell with yours) mine get run over constantly. also, you can sit the next timber under the last one and mark a line for cutting, if its not a straight line. that way they fit together better. you might get 10 years if your lucky. ( in my experience, done it twice so far getting ready for a third).
Thanks for watching and for the comments!! We did get treated timbers as well. I really wanted to do a barrier but the guy insisted the crushed asphalt would kill what’s under it with the heat. I’m sure I’ll be killing weeds for years to come unfortunately, wasn’t the best call to make. Again, thanks for the comments and for checking out our video!!! 🙏🏻💪🏻
man, you got a busy road. Beautiful finish!
Yes that road was crazy busy!!! Thanks for checking out eh video!
Thanks for the demo. We need to redo ours. The lumber was not pressure treated due to cost but now is disintegrating. From time to time the lumber gets run over and some are completely splintered up. We actually used rebar to anchor. (When we replace the lumber the rebar will be reused.) Also, didn’t use weed barrier but wish we did. Lessons learned.
Honestly rebar is probably a better choice than the spikes! Wish I had done that! Always learning as well and thank you for the comment!!
Thanks for the video. I may try this technique myself. Your driveway looks great and you have two beautiful children. 🙂
Thanks so much for the comment! The crushed asphalt turned out great for us and the Timbers along the edges lasted up until we sold the house a year ago, no issues as far as I know still even now.
Great video, thank you!
You are welcome!!! Thank you for watching and for sharing your feedback!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Just a question....how long are the nails you are using. I can only get 1' I found they were just a little too light and sometimes too short (as were the one-foot pieces of 1/2"-rebar....so I ended up using 3/4" rebar in 12-18" lengths, which gave a bit more stability.
Nice work bud. Thanks for the video. We’re gonna attempt this in the spring!
Awesome!! If you do give it a go, circle back and let me know how it turned out!
Me and my kids feel yalls pain lol. We had 16 tons of dirt brought in to fill around our pool that was dug out in the backyard. 6 days of non stop wheelbarrows and shoveling. And we got it knocked out. Not fun after 8hr and 10hr work days.
that old concrete slab could actually be a an old concrete septic tank.
That's true!! This house is old enough that's for sure, but it's super close to the old highway, so I think if it were a septic it would be placed further back.
I have a project coming up. A driveway approximately 1/2 acre long, not sure what the foot conversions are, about 9 foot wide. I had planned on hand digging the base down to approximately 6 inches, compacting the dirt. Lay a thick landscape barrier down, place bricks on both sides of the driveway then place about 100 tonnes of asphalt grinding down. Now I’m thinking of doing landscape timbers and 100 tonnes of P26 and crushed limestone. I have already done a blueprint of how the driveway will be placed, it will go from the end of our street and connect into my neighbors property via a gate, we have worked the details out as we both own an acre between the two of us. What do you think I should do as the final product? I have pictures of the property if you need to do an assessment or I can take a video and post it. Thank you.
Your plan for the asphalt overlay sounds the best for long-term in my opinion, but if you aren't planning on staying for a long time the limestone would probably be fine. I'm partial to the asphalt look as well personally.
That concrete slab is a burial vault . The firat concrete vaults date back to the 1880s so its possible ur on a graveyard.
I live in GA and cemeteries(with tombstones) are still getting demolished for farming and building. And not just the black cemeteries.
Could you please tell me about your landscape timbers and where you bought them. Are they treated with anything and what type of wood are they? And size also. Thank you
I would have put some of the rock under the landscape timbers to slow them from rotting on the bare ground. They don't last very long on bare earth.
Very true! I wish I had done something, hopefully they will hold up awhile. This was a quick fix type project for us, and they’ve held up so far. Thanks for the advice and for checking out the video! 💪🏻
They are landscape timbers... Treated and rated for landscaping. They dont do aswell on concrete. Dries and rots them. Its cool im a time traveler 🙂 two years in time but not very good at it since im in time with time.😔 Im working on it...
Have you had any trouble with weeds coming through? I would like to top my gravel driveway with a fresh coat of gravel or something but I thought I'd need to lay some sort of fabric first.
We had one small area with weeds but we only had to treat it once and they never came back. I definitely recommend a commercial grade weedblocker to lay down prior to the rocks but if you’ve already got some rocks there it may not be doable. Good luck on your project and thanks so much for reaching out!!
Was the concrete under the ground a septic cover?
That’s a good question! Not sure, we left that be but it totally could have been
Lol I was thinking the same thing. That’s a mistake I would have made. Nice work
Demolitia!
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might be your septic tank ( concrete ) as to why they wont go down
It’s out in the front yard by the main road - definitely possible, maybe an old septic but we have traditional city sewage drains not septic now. I think it might be a really old walk path out to the front.
Hey I've never considered this type of asphalt driveway. You've sparked an interest for me, thanks. Is this less erosive for running rain water over crushed rock?
We haven’t had any wash out for rain yet, been holding strong. We have been super happy with it so far. Glad the video was able to help you out!!
I might have used cut sections of rebar rather than those nails.
Probably would have been better no doubt, but these have held up pretty solid so far. Thanks for checking out the video! 💪🏻
Nail the spikes into what...dirt? Are those timbers rated for 'in ground contact'?
Yes. Yes. ✌️
Curious if you find millings tracked into the home. Stuck in carpeting, etc... just wondering if they get hot and sticky in summer months?
We don't track anything into the house, it stays really solid. We did our drive infant of our shop too, now back there some of the pebbles get kicked into the shop, but I sweep them back out easily. I feel like it's more 'Loose' in the winter / cooler months.
After all these years, can you make a update video of how well these Timbers are holding up?
I don't live at this property any longer, but I can tell you that as far as I've seen when driving by to see friends living in the area, everything still looks good! We had one timber that came up every now and again because delivery drivers would drive over it, but other than that they held up well. I do wish I had stained / sealed them to retain the color, they got grey pretty quick.
You dig 8in into the ground for all of them? I'm working on a project right now and was wondering.
No we didn't dig that deep for them all, just in one area I needed to dig down because the nail was hitting something underneath.
You have any issues with the nails coming out over time?
We did sell this house but I can say that up until we left we only had problems with one timber - it was basically in a spot that people would bump with their tires when pulling in from the side street. It would sometimes roll, pulling up the nails. Other than that, everything stayed in place very well!
Did you call you dig? Many times they will use concrete to protect electrical wire if they can't dig down far enough while running wire.
I didn’t but that’s a great point. That concrete could have save my life no doubt! Great point - thanks for sharing that. 🙏🏻
Nailing it into.. thre..... dirt?
They are spikes to help hold the boards in place. Still working well to this day. ✌🏻
How about a driveway update video
That's a great idea!!! I'll see if I can record that this spring / early summer to show off how it looks now!
Yes sir please
I would of found out what that concrete slab was lol. Old people use to berry there money rather than put it into the bank.
Def could have been buried treasure, my luck it was!!! Thanks for checking out the video!
You found where they put jimmy hoffa..
😂😂 I knew it!!!!!!
Hi sir how’s it holding up?
We sold the house this year, about a month ago. Everything up until that point still looked really good! We did a weed spray a couple times, then that was the end of the weeds growing through. I think the heat and weight of the asphalt helped with that too. The timbers only had a couple with issues, and moreso my placement of them. Once I adjusted they stayed in place really well!
@@TheToughGuysTV thank you
Is it a bomb shelter under the dirt?
I think it’s just the old sidewalk that went out to the road before there was the pass through driveway
A experienced truck driver would had spread in 10 min
I don’t doubt it. Got done either way though - thanks for watching
did you ever go back and smash out that concrete? Could be money in there or could be victims of a serial killer......
Might have been no doubt!! I never did no, but I'm guessing it was the old driveway or an old walkpath up to the house, the house is about 90 years old.