Repair, resurface or replace your driveway?

Many companies have a minimum charge, so a few short cracks can cost about as much as a longer run. HomeAdvisor says the minimum is often $100 to $150,¹ and HomeGuide puts it at $100 to $250.²

Resurfacing puts a new layer over a driveway that's worn but still sound underneath.

The asphalt figures spread widely from one cost guide to the next, so treat $3 to $7 as the usual band and ask what a quote includes.

Widening or extending a driveway is priced about like new work in the same material, and the cost guides give $2 to $15 per square foot across materials.^8-9 If the new part reaches the street, it may need a permit. Do you need a permit for a driveway? explains who issues them.

Replacing is two jobs: taking out the old driveway and building a new one. Removing asphalt costs $1 to $3 per square foot,^{4-5, 8} and removing concrete $2 to $6 per square foot.^10-11 Add that to the price of the new driveway in what a driveway costs.

• One price for tearing out and replacing an asphalt driveway. There aren't enough published figures for it, so we give removal and new paving separately.
• One cost guide's much higher sealcoating rate. It contradicts that publisher's own sealing page. What sealcoating costs has the range the sources agree on.

• Whether the driveway's base is sound enough to resurface, or whether it needs replacing.
• For crack filling, whether there's a minimum charge and what it covers.
• For an overlay, how thick the new layer will be and whether the edges and the garage or street joins are built up to meet it.

Each company on this site is listed with its phone number where it has one, so you can call two or three and compare. You can also send a request through the request form.