Service Southern Maine
Road Construction
Driveways and smaller private roads — built with the base and drainage that decide whether they survive mud season.
A road is a drainage structure that you happen to drive on. Nearly every failed private road in this county failed because water got into the base, not because the surface was thin.
We build driveways and smaller private roads: the drive into a house lot, a shared way serving a few properties, a track to a barn or a woodlot. Subdivision roads built to town acceptance standards are a different scale of job, and not one we take on.
What the work covers
- New driveways and private roads, cut, based, and crowned
- Culverts, ditching, and roadside drainage
- Geotextile where the subgrade is soft
- Rebuilding and regravelling drives that were never based properly
- Winter access, including turnaround and plow room
Why some roads fail and others do not
Three things: a crown that actually sheds water, ditches that carry it away, and a base thick enough for what drives on it. A drive built for a car will not survive a concrete truck or a loaded log truck, and it is far cheaper to build for the heaviest vehicle now than to rebuild after mud season takes it apart.
Tell us what will use the drive and how often. That answer changes the whole build.