A Typical Spring Beak-Up Scene
Post-winter gravel roads and driveways in North Idaho tend to become less user friendly, rougher, and in some cases mushier as the spring melt progresses.
Many of those spring-time issues can be averted through late summer and fall routine road maintenance. If reconditioned to remove potholes and washboard, restoring proper road crown, cleaning culverts and ensuring proper water management prior to winter onset, winter road damage and deteriorating spring conditions may be largely averted.
The good news is, that fall road and driveway maintenance is surprisingly affordable, and many times, with proper grading, using equipment specific to this task, additional aggregate may, or may not be needed.
Gravel driveways and private roads are simply a way of life in North Idaho, and a professional, affordable grading and recrowning of those roads, reduces vehicle wear-and-tear from potholes and washboard, and sets you up for enhanced access all through the winter and spring months.
Tired of Driving Around These Things?
Yep, we’ve all got them if you have a gravel driveway! At some time, they’ve popped up, and they only get worse when ignored. Simply throwing rock and gravel in established potholes is merely a lesson in frustration, as the fill is quickly pounded out, and the hole remains.
The solution is to cut out the potholes, get down to the bottom, remove the hardened edges, grade and smooth to a uniform surface, without the underlying potted substrate.
Driveway Doktor specializes in rehabbing and repairing these types of roads! We provide affordable, efficient and professional services to your rural property.
Don’t endure the tedious driving around obstacles on your driveway, or worse yet, pounding your vehicle undercarriage on rough access roads. Give Driveway Doktor a call, or use our Contact page to schedule a free site evaluation, and get an estimate to restore your home or ranch access.
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Another Candidate for Pre-Winter Rehab
This driveway, while not deeply potholed or washboard, is still in dire need of repair prior to the rigors of a long North Idaho winter! That overgrown mound in the driveway’s center, and the lightly grooved wheel tracks are a recipe for winter plowing frustration!
First, the center hump, once saturated and frozen, will become a plowing hinderance throughout the winter, and the depressed tire ruts, while having a fair covering of gravel, will remain snow covered all winter, because the plow blade simply cannot access that snow for removal due to the raised road center, and the somewhat elevated driveway edges.
Once a couple thaw-freeze cycles hit, that remaining snow in those tire tracks becomes grey ice, that can persist until spring thaw with a cold winter.
Driveway Doktor can repair this type of road quickly, and efficiently, putting in a consistent crown in the driveway for water drainage, and eliminating the low spots, while bringing all of the existing gravel aggregate to the surface for an enhanced traction surface that manages water efficiently.
In many cases, the existing gravel is plenty, it just needs to be properly graded and rejuvenated.
Give us a call for a free site evaluation and estimate to fix your road, before it becomes a winter headache!
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The days are becoming shorter, and although we are enjoying North Idaho’s Indian Summer, fall rains, and winter snow will be here before we’re ready. Now is the time to call Driveway Doktor to schedule your free, on-site evaluation, and get an estimate to make your rural driveway winter-ready. We offer efficient, affordable, professional solutions