Tier 2 coverage, Merseyside
Driveways in Meols
Coastal bungalows on flat, sandy, low lying plots, where salt, sand and the water table all have a say.
- Dig depth and sub base stated in writing
- Edge restraint haunched, not just laid
- Drainage designed, not left to the border
Driveway drainage
Low lying and close to the sea, which means the water table can be high and a soakaway is not automatically the answer. It has to be tested rather than assumed, and where it will not take water the design has to be a permeable surface or a route to an existing drain.
Resin driveways
No joints for wind blown sand to fill and nothing to wash out, and permeable on the right base. On this particular stretch of coast it answers several problems at once, which is why it is worth the extra.
Block paving driveways
Perfectly viable here, with the caveat that joint sand needs topping up more often than inland and that the edge restraint is doing more work than usual.
Groundworks and preparation
Sandy, mobile ground where compaction in layers is the whole of whether the drive is flat in three years.
What Meols asks for most
Driveway drainage in Meols
High water table, where a soakaway has to be proved.
Read moreResin bound driveways in Meols
No joints, permeable, and nothing for sand to fill.
Read moreBlock paving driveways in Meols
With the edge restraint doing more work than usual.
Read moreGroundworks and preparation in Meols
Compaction on mobile sandy ground.
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Questions from Meols
Does sand really get into everything out here?
Into block paving joints, yes, continually. It is not a defect and it does not harm the drive, but it does mean the surface looks different from an inland one and wants clearing periodically. That is exterior cleaning work and we would point you at wirralexteriorcleaning.com.
Is a soakaway going to work on low lying ground?
It has to be tested. Near the coast the water table can be high enough that a soakaway fills and stays full, at which point it is not draining anything. Where that is the case a permeable surface or a connection to an existing route is the answer.
Other areas covered
Twelve towns across the peninsula. What decides a driveway here is the plot rather than the postcode: how it falls, what is under it, how wide the frontage is and where the water is going to go.
Across the Wirral peninsula
The west side and the coast
Get a price for a job in Meols
Rough size, what is on it now and which way it falls is enough for a first answer about what is possible.
Get in touch
Tell us roughly how big the area is, what is on it now and which way it falls. A photograph from the pavement and one from the house answers most of it before anybody rings you back.
- Phone0151 453 8836
- Emailcontact@wirraldriveways.com
- WhatsAppSend us a photo of the job
- Based inWirral, Merseyside
- HoursMon to Fri 8 to 6, Sat 8 to 2, closed Sunday