Does road salt damage an oil and stone driveway?

It holds up well. There is no sealcoat skin to lift or blister, which is the usual way salt damage shows on blacktop. The stone and the binder underneath handle winter chemicals without special treatment.

Can you rebuild just the apron where my drive meets the road?

We can, though on a short drive it is often better value to do the whole run at once so there is no seam between old and new. We will tell you honestly which one makes sense at the visit.

Oil & Stone Driveways in Jacksonville, NY

Jacksonville is a crossroads hamlet on Route 96 in the town of Ulysses, sitting between Trumansburg and Ithaca with fields on every side. It is a short strip of houses and a lot of country around it, and the driveways are mostly straightforward runs off a road that carries steady traffic all day.

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On the Highway

Where the drive meets a busy road.

A driveway that meets Route 96 takes salt, spray and plow wash off the highway all winter. A surface with no seal to break down handles that steady chemical load without the surface skin lifting.

The apron where a drive meets the road is the hardest working few feet of the whole thing. It gets turned on, stopped on and plowed against, and it wants a properly compacted base more than anywhere else.

Between the hamlet and the fields the ground changes quickly. Building to what is actually under each stretch beats treating a short drive as uniform.

The Work in Jacksonville

Short approaches, hard-working aprons.

Most jobs here are modest residential drives off 96 or the side roads, where the real attention goes into the apron and the first twenty feet. That is the section that fails first if it is built like the rest.

Work close to a state route needs traffic handled safely while the crew stages. We plan that in rather than improvising on the day.

What an oil & stone driveway runs

Where We Work