Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Foreword

Introduction: Who Is This Book For?

Chapter One: Living Together On Private Roads

• Private roads and driveways differ from public roads.
• Privately owned and maintained roadways exist everywhere.
• To cope or not to cope with roadway restoration.

Chapter Two: Roadway Decay and Cheap Improvements

• Read your land and determine its natural characteristics.
• Why unimproved dirt and gravel roads are inherently weak.
• How everyday traffic damages unimproved dirt and gravel roadways.
• Cheap and quick fixes.
• Altering driving patterns to reduce roadway damage.

Chapter Three: The Mechanics of Permanently Restoring Unimproved Roadways

• Construction procedures for restoring and rebuilding damaged roadways.
• Typical roadway construction sequencing.
• Sounds great, but our road is too narrow. What can we do?
• How can a turnout work for me if I can't see down the road?

Chapter Four: The Mechanics of Restoring Hard Surfaced Roadways

• How to determine if your pavement is failing.
• Inspecting your pavement.
• Spot repairing cracked and broken pavement.
• Wholesale repairs and replacement of failed pavement.
• Options for dealing with cracked and broken concrete.
• Preparing roadways for pavement.
• Deciding between asphalt and concrete.

Chapter Five: Some Other Things You Should Know

• Optimal conditions for performing road restoration or new construction.
• Surprises and unknowns when dealing with roadwork.
• Construction equipment required for restoration and repair work.
• Materials and supplies required for restoration and repair work.
• Choosing culvert and pipe material.

Chapter Six: Working With Your Neighbors

• Almost in-laws.
• Beginning the road association process.
• Establishing a road association.
• Working together as a road association.
• Agreeing on technical items.
• Who will handle the money?
• Dealing without full neighbor participation.
• We can't afford this now. What can we do?
• Boundary disputes.

Chapter Seven: Doing It Yourself

• Choosing the proper equipment.
• Soils and their affect on choosing compaction equipment.
• Renting equipment with special accessories and attachments.
• Installing culverts.
• Common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
• Typical budget busters.
• What else can we do to save money?
• Improving your odds of doing it right the first time.
• Rules of thumb and painful truths.

Chapter Eight: Finding Help

• Choosing the right contractor.
• What about construction contracts and bids?
• Contractor warranty.
• More friendly advice concerning contractors.
• Which types of consultants might we need?
• Finding the right consultants.
• You can volunteer. You can help.

Chapter Nine: Maintaining Your Investment

• Ways to preserve your roadway investment.
• Is this it? Are we finished putting money into our road?
• New home construction and its impact on roadways.
• Learning more.
• Happy trails.

Appendices

• Robinswood Drive construction project spreadsheets.
• Metric designs.
• Unit measurement conversion tables.
• Professional Associations.

Glossary

Index

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