Asphalt Edges: How To Finish Asphalt Edges 

Love it. Down to earth and no BS and well presented.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Our home was just finished in November and we just have a stone driveway and parking area. We are having it paved and I was concerned about the edges and how they should be finished. It seems if you get it "shouldered" well- it doesn't matter so much about the edges. What I DON"T want it those side cracks from FedEx or UPS drivers going over the edge.

Always tamp the edges before and after top surface is rolled and just after paved while hot unless its a highway. Raker should be on each side behind screed. Then push rock up to edge to hide edge after.

I have paved meny meny driveways . it’s all about money when possible a driveway should be at least 14 foot wide. This way you don’t drive off the edges in the first place but every customer insist on 10 foot wide to save money and they insist on getting many many estimates, and finding the cheapest guy. so now the good companies have to lower their prices to be competitive to a guy that gave us satellite estimate and then of course he goes to the job and jacks up the price plus most of the time you get to a driveway and you don’t know how the base is until you put the paving machine on it and manipulate the ground grading it Now you’re in a position where it really needs to be reinforced with Stone or asphalt but you did not get enough money for the job in the first place so now you just have to do your best. When really it needs to be all dug out and 6 inches of stone put in and then left for a good month but then the job turns into two days and the paving contractor loses money. if you give the correct price to begin with you don’t get the job the cheap guy does.

Very helpful, thank you.

Whats best for edges- gravel, dirt or recycled asphalt

A rake man isnt doing much anyway, and it doesn't nend the rake.