Driveways
Charcoal and slate cobble-sett and ashlar, two-coat wet-sealed, expansion cuts done right. Every drive measured on the drive and quoted to suit.
Pattern imprinted concrete · Yorkshire
Driveways worth walking out to.
Pattern-imprinted concrete, dug out, laid and wet-sealed by hand across Harrogate, Wetherby, Ilkley and North Leeds. Have a watch of a finished one — sound on if you like.
Real footage of our work — a finished drive, filmed as we left it
- Free, no-pressure quotes
- Proper sub-base, never skimmed
- Two-coat wet seal
- Genuinely local — we live and work out here
Finished work
Real drives, on real Yorkshire streets.
Charcoal cobble to warm sandstone, tidy side paths to sweeping feature circles — every one dug out, laid and wet-sealed by us, and photographed as we left it.
What you're actually buying
The job lives or dies on the bit you never see.
Pattern-imprinted concrete is one continuous slab — coloured right through and pressed with the texture of real stone while it's still green. No joints for weeds, no blocks to sink or wander.
The whole thing stands on a proper dig-out, a compacted sub-base, and the right depth of concrete with steel where it needs it. Get that right and the pattern's the easy part. We lay charcoal ashlar and old-cobble setts mostly — they suit the brick round here — then let it cure properly and come back to seal it, not the same afternoon to look quick.
The sealer matters more than the pattern
A single cheap seal goes milky the first wet winter. We do two coats, built for the Yorkshire wet.
Laid by us, start to finish
We don't subcontract the pour. The people who quote it are the people who lay it.
We get the falls right at survey
Set properly, water runs to the road — not under your garage door.
Why G&M
A driveway is mostly the bit you can't see. Get the sub-base wrong and no pattern saves it.
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Designed for your house
We pick the pattern and colour to suit your home and your stone, and show you a sample before a barrow is mixed.
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Built to last the Yorkshire wet
Compacted base, fibre-mix, expansion cuts where they belong, and a two-coat wet seal — not a single coat to look quick.
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One person, start to finish
You deal with the person doing the work — fewer drives a year, each one finished the way I'd want my own done.
What we lay
Driveways are the craft. The rest follows the same care.
Patios & steps
The same setts and riven-slab finishes, scaled to the garden and the way you use it — steps, thresholds and feature circles included.
Paths, edging & restoration
Soldier-course borders, curving paths, dropped kerbs to council spec, and tired drives brought back and re-sealed.
How a drive gets laid
Six steps, done in the right order.
Survey & falls
We measure on the drive and set the falls so water runs to the road, not your garage.
Dig-out & sub-base
We lift the old drive and lay a proper compacted base — the bit cheap jobs skip.
Steel & pour
Reinforced and poured to depth, in one continuous slab.
Imprint & colour
Pressed with real-stone texture and coloured through while it's green.
Cut & clean
Expansion cuts where they belong, then washed off.
Wet-seal & hand back
We come back to seal it once it's properly cured — then leave it swept, with a care sheet.
Where we work
A Harrogate & Leeds firm by choice, not by reach.
We know the stone-verge expectations in Harrogate, the conservation rules around Ilkley, and how a Boston Spa frost finds a badly-sealed drive by February. If you're in the belt, we're a short van-ride away — and that matters when you want us back to top up the seal in a few years.
What customers say
We'd rather show you the work than borrow someone else's words.
We're a young firm, so we're not going to pad this page with reviews you can't check. Ask, and we'll give you a recent customer to ring and a finished drive to walk on. As the real ones come in, they'll go right here — name, town and all.
Questions, answered straight
The things people actually ask.
Every drive is different, so every quote is bespoke. It comes down to the size, the prep, how much of the old drive has to come out and the pattern you pick — which is why we'd rather measure it properly than guess a number. We'll come and have a look, then give you a fixed, written quote. Free, and no pressure either way.
Properly based, reinforced and expansion-cut, no. The cracking on cheap drives is skipped prep and missing cuts.
A top-up every four years or so keeps it looking laid. We'll tell you when, and can do it for you.
A typical drive is 3–5 days, weather permitting.
Usually we lift it and lay a proper base — overlaying is where drives go wrong. We'll tell you straight at survey.
We sheet the borders, protect the house, and leave it swept with every barrow taken away.
Free, no-pressure quote
Tell us where you are and roughly how big.
We'll come and have a proper look — measured, written and back to you the same week, whether you use us or not.