Block Paving
Clay and composite brick sets laid for load bearing, with the edge courses restrained properly so the pattern stays true and the edges never creep.
Driveway, paving and tarmac contractors in The Wirral, Cheshire and North Wales. Gerry quotes the job, Gerry's sons and crew lay it, and the same firm is still here in five years to stand behind it.
We lay clay and composite brick sets for load-bearing driveways, and porcelain and Indian sandstone where the finish matters most. Whichever you choose, what goes under it is built the same way.
Clay and composite brick sets laid for load bearing, with the edge courses restrained properly so the pattern stays true and the edges never creep.
Porcelain and Indian sandstone, laid on a full mortar bed and pointed by hand. The part of the garden you look at every day of the summer.
Laid hot and rolled, finished with a block or kerb edge. The most sensible way to cover a long drive properly without cutting corners underneath it.
A permeable surface over a solid base, edged so it stays where it was put. No loose stone tracked into the road and nowhere for water to sit.
Circles, diamonds, contrast borders and radial courses cut and set on site. It is the detail that separates a paved drive from a proper one.
Curved steps, aprons and paths that meet the house properly, cut to the radius rather than filled in with mortar and hoped for.
"Gerry was so kind and patient answering my many questions. His crew of workmen are extremely hard working, and checked in with me every step of the way. Most importantly they were respectful of our property, nothing was too much trouble."
Mr and Mrs FordFrom a handwritten letter sent to the firm, photographed aboveEvery photograph on this page is our own work at a real house on the Wirral, in Cheshire or in North Wales. No catalogues and no stock images.
Read the reviews and one name comes up in nearly every single one. Gerry is the man who comes out to look at your drive, prices it, and is on the end of the phone afterwards. Customers also name the crew by name: Aidan, Anthony and Louis.
That matters more than it sounds. Hiring the best does not mean the most expensive. In fact, engaging a here-today-gone-tomorrow outfit can be an expensive mistake, and it is the one mistake you cannot undo without digging the whole thing up again.
G D & Sons Quality Paving Ltd has been a limited company since 2016, works out of a trade unit on Buildwas Road in Neston, and is one of The Wirral's busiest paving contractors.
A driveway fails from the bottom up. Almost every cracked, dipped, weed-split drive on the Wirral failed because somebody saved a day on the digging, and nobody could see it until the second winter.
The old surface and the soft ground beneath it come out and go on the wagon. Nothing gets raked to the side and buried under your new drive.
Type 1 stone laid and compacted in layers rather than one thick dump. This is the part that carries the car for the next twenty years, not the blocks on top.
Edge restraints haunched in concrete, and the surface water given somewhere legal to go, before a single block or tonne of tarmac is laid.
Laid, cut in, jointed or rolled, the site swept and the waste taken with us. We walk the finished drive with you before the van leaves.
Against sinkage and subsidence, from a limited company with a trade unit, a company number and a reputation on the Wirral it is not about to spend.
Hiring the best does not mean the most expensive. In fact, engaging a here-today-gone-tomorrow outfit can be an expensive mistake.G D & Sons Quality Paving Ltd
We are based in Neston and most of our work is within half an hour of it. If you are on the edge of that, ring and ask.
Gerry will come and look at it, measure up and give you a price in writing. There is no charge for that and no obligation afterwards.