About Our Resin Driveway Work in Leicester
A driveway company that would rather turn down an overlay than lay a beautiful surface onto a base that is already failing.
Resin Is What We Are Known For
Smooth Stone Paving LTD installs driveways, patios and landscaping across the Midlands. This site exists because resin driveways in Leicester come with their own set of questions, and they are questions people deserve a straight answer to before they spend the money.
The most common one is whether resin can go straight over what is already there. Sometimes it can, and that saves a lot of excavation. But a resin surface follows whatever it is laid on. Put it over a base that is cracked, moving or holding water, and within a couple of winters the new drive will be showing exactly the same faults as the old one. So we look properly, and we tell you which of those two situations you are actually in.
The second is colour. Aggregate looks completely different in daylight against real brickwork than it does on a sample board indoors, and it is not a decision you get to revisit. So the samples come to you, and they get held against the house.
Four Things We Will Not Compromise On
Mixed and Laid by Us
Forge-mixing, pouring and trowelling all happen with our own team on site. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor you have never met once the deposit clears.
We Will Talk You Out of It
If your existing base is not suitable for an overlay, or block paving would serve you better, we say so at the quote stage. It is cheaper for everyone than fixing it later.
Colour Decided in Daylight
Samples come out to the property and get held up against the actual brickwork, render and window frames. Charts lie, daylight does not.
One Continuous Pour
We plan the day so the whole area goes down in one go. Stopping and restarting is what leaves a visible line across an otherwise seamless drive.
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We will look at the existing surface, check the levels and drainage, and bring aggregate samples out so you can see them against your own brickwork.
Resin Driveways Around Leicester
Leicester throws up the same handful of resin situations again and again, and where you live tends to predict which one you have. The Victorian terraces around Clarendon Park, Highfields and Newfoundpool usually mean a short frontage with the whole surface visible from the pavement, so the border detail and the neatness of the edge against the wall matter more than the field colour does.
Interwar semis in Knighton, Stoneygate and Western Park more often have an old concrete or tarmac drive already down. That is exactly the case where an overlay may work, and exactly where it needs inspecting rather than assuming.
Out towards Beaumont Leys, Rushey Mead and Thurnby Lodge, plots are tighter and front gardens are being converted to parking. There the permeability is the point: water has to have somewhere to go that is not the pavement, and that gets designed in from the start.
- Clarendon Park
- Stoneygate
- Knighton
- Evington
- Aylestone
- Braunstone
- Western Park
- Humberstone
- Belgrave
- Rushey Mead
- Beaumont Leys
- Thurnby Lodge
Towns We Cover Beyond Leicester
Leicester is the focus here, but the wider business works across Leicestershire, Warwickshire and the West Midlands.
- Leicester
- Hinckley
- Nuneaton
- Coventry
- Lutterworth
- Market Bosworth
- Earl Shilton
- Barwell
- Burbage
- Bedworth
- Rugby
- Warwick
- Atherstone
- Tamworth
- Solihull
- Birmingham
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Questions About the Company
Who are Smooth Stone Paving LTD?
We are a Midlands driveway and landscaping firm, working out of the Hinckley area and covering Leicester, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and the surrounding towns. This particular site is dedicated to the resin bound side of what we do. If you want the full picture of the company, the main Smooth Stone Paving website covers everything else.
Do you only install resin driveways?
Resin bound is our speciality, but no. We also install block paving, tarmac, patios, pathways and complete landscaping schemes including lawns and planting. That is useful on a project where the drive and the garden are being done together, because one team handles both.
Do you work through the winter?
Resin needs suitable conditions to cure properly, so cold or wet spells can push a pour back. We would rather move a date than lay in conditions that compromise the finish, and we will always tell you why if that happens.
Do you take on commercial resin work?
Most of our work is domestic driveways and frontages. We do take on larger areas, parking bays and shared accesses as well. Send us the details and we will tell you honestly whether it suits us.
Shall We Come and Take a Look?
Call 01455 817 299, message us on WhatsApp, or fill in the form on our contact page and we will get straight back to you.