Howdy all,
I think I've been had by my GC, no complaints up to this point of a massive remodel job but his crew poured a new upper half of a driveway and frankly, it's terrible. The old driveway was crowned and the new one is level across so at the sides there is a 3/4" height difference. It looks like a sidewalk - smooth around the edge and broomed in the center (which is OK but not like the old driveway), 20'x25' with no expansion joints (there were none in the old one) and the impression of the plastic that was used to cover it where it got rained on and water ponded in the tarp pushing it into the wet cement. Also a small area of the top surface at the roof drip line has been eaten away exposing the aggregate underneath where water ran off the roof. Also also also cement slopped over onto the cement walk to the front door and doesn't look like it wants to come off.
He has offfered to float a patch on the lower section to smooth the transition where the edges don't meet at the joint and grind / skim a patch over the crappy finish on the top section. I'm afraid that this will just flake off. Anyone have any suggestions? My fear is that it will have to be ripped out and done over again.
TIA for any thoughts,
Mark
I think I've been had by my GC, no complaints up to this point of a massive remodel job but his crew poured a new upper half of a driveway and frankly, it's terrible. The old driveway was crowned and the new one is level across so at the sides there is a 3/4" height difference. It looks like a sidewalk - smooth around the edge and broomed in the center (which is OK but not like the old driveway), 20'x25' with no expansion joints (there were none in the old one) and the impression of the plastic that was used to cover it where it got rained on and water ponded in the tarp pushing it into the wet cement. Also a small area of the top surface at the roof drip line has been eaten away exposing the aggregate underneath where water ran off the roof. Also also also cement slopped over onto the cement walk to the front door and doesn't look like it wants to come off.
He has offfered to float a patch on the lower section to smooth the transition where the edges don't meet at the joint and grind / skim a patch over the crappy finish on the top section. I'm afraid that this will just flake off. Anyone have any suggestions? My fear is that it will have to be ripped out and done over again.
TIA for any thoughts,
Mark