Block Paving Driveways for homes in Costhorpe
Block paving is the traditional choice for a driveway and it is still hard to beat — it takes the weight, individual blocks can be lifted and replaced if something ever gets damaged, and there is a huge range of colours, sizes and laying patterns to work with. Herringbone, stretcher bond, basketweave, a soldier course border in a contrasting colour to frame the drive. We set out the pattern before we start laying so the lines run true against the house and the falls take water where it should go, then edge, compact and joint the whole thing properly so nothing creeps or settles unevenly later.
Working in Costhorpe
Costhorpe sits immediately north of Worksop, effectively continuous with Carlton in Lindrick, and it grew around the colliery and the works serving it. The housing is largely brick terracing and semis from that period on regular plots, with later development added around it, and the plots follow the pattern common to purpose-built pit housing — modest frontages designed as front gardens, and longer rear gardens than the house frontage suggests. Converting those front gardens into off-road parking is the most frequent job here, and on the narrower frontages the setting out is what makes it work: the width, the threshold position and the fall to the road have to be right first time because there is no spare space to correct a poor layout later.
What's included
- Herringbone, stretcher bond and basketweave patterns
- Contrasting soldier course borders
- Set out so lines run true against the property
- Individual blocks liftable and replaceable