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« : July 22, 2008, 08:35:11 AM »

Last Saturday some people stopped by and asked me if I would like to get my driveway sealed.  They told me they had noticed some cracks in it and one hole that they would patch.  I asked them what they would charge me and he thought for a minute and said they would do the whole job for $650.

Well, that floored me just a bit as I had it done several years ago from a guy who was doing the parking lot up at Minors Country Store.  If I remember right, he worked at Ben & Jerry's and did this with a friend of his part time.  My recollection was somewhere around $260.  When I told him that, he said and he patched it too?  I told him no, as it was a new driveway only about two years old when I had it sealed before and I had waited for the blacktop to get gray.  He then gave me a price of $350, to which I bartered once more to bring it down to $325.

The guy does have a business in St. Albans and his grandfather used to live in Fairfax, so I have to believe he is reputable, however only time will tell how long this job lasts.  It looks good anyhow.


The three guys are shown above, cleaning and edging it

The job was completed in a very short time and is shown above as it was drying

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« #1 : July 24, 2008, 07:54:26 AM »

I actually found my old bill which was in 2005 for the driveway sealing at that time.  It was done by Mark Bruley & Dave Guyette from St. Albans and I paid $200, not $260.  I remembered I had taken some photos of them doing it.  They did a great job and it lasted three years.


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