new one. Now we also have more power to help push our trucks up the many hills that we have in this part of southern Maryland. The new 1750-C's screed really is a symphony in steel in that it orchestrates a host of factors into laying an award-winning mat.
"That gives us a major advantage; it puts down a mat that we can be proud of with far less effort and handwork. Especially when we pave driveways, small to large parking lots, and self-storage facilities. The majority of our work is in the private sector. However, we also do a small amount of work, (5%), in the public sector.
"An example of this would be where we are working on an industrial parking lot and its driveway intersects with a state or federal highway. That intersection must meet their specifications. For all of this, we need a high quality paver to do this successfully. But our typical mat is put down three inches thick and then compacted," continued the wife of the owner.
"I do most of the mat consolidation. I'd rather be out here than sitting at home. After all, this is a family operation. We have three rollers, an Ingersoll-Rand DD-24 (3-6 ton) with vibration on both drums, a Wacker RD11A (1 1/4 ton) with front drum vibration, and a Mauldin 1450 (1 1/4 ton) with full vibration," she added.
"Just because we are a small contractor is no reason to expect the demands on our work to be less than a larger company. The customers that we work for today are very sophisticated and know what they want. In some cases, we even encounter an architect's representative on the job," said Mike Hand.
"We recently completed a 4,500 square foot, L-shaped residential driveway for a half-a-million dollar new home that fronts on the Chesapeake Bay in the Chesapeake Ranch Estates of Maryland. It required 70 tons of MDOT Type SF mix. We put down a three inch unconsolidated mat that was compacted to 2 1/2" thick," continued the owner of the company.
"The driveway included a steep uphill turn-around that the Mauldin 1750-C had no trouble pulling.
The 160-foot long section from the two-car garage of the $500,000 new home was about 20-feet wide, narrowing down to about 13-feet before it curved around the front of the house and yard. That section was about 166' long and was about 10-feet wide," added Alice Hand.