Our price depends on one number: how many cars could park side by side across the widest part of your driveway. Not how many cars you own. Not how many fit end to end. Width, at the widest point.
Almost everybody gets this wrong on the first go, and it is worth ten seconds to get right, because it is the number your price is built on.
Why width and not length
A tractor with an inverted blower clears in passes. A driveway twice as wide takes twice as many passes. A driveway twice as long takes one longer pass — the machine is already moving, and the extra distance costs a fraction of what an extra pass costs. That is the whole reason width sets the price and length only matters at the extreme, which is why every standard size covers a driveway up to 75 feet long.
Read it from your front step
Stand at the street end and look at the widest part, usually where the apron flares out to meet the road. A parked car needs about 9 to 10 feet. So:
- about 10 feet across is a 1-car
- about 20 feet is a 2-car
- about 30 feet is a 3-car
- about 40 feet is a 4-car
Count the flare. People routinely measure the straight section by the garage and forget that the apron is 6 feet wider — and the apron is the part the city plow fills in.
What happens if you get it wrong
Nothing dramatic, and nothing punitive. Before the season we check every driveway against satellite and street-level imagery. If we measure yours differently from what you selected, you get an email showing you the same picture we measured from, and you pay the difference — only the difference, and only if it went up. Your season is already booked either way. If it measures smaller than you bought, we tell you that too.
We check because the size decides what the crew turns up expecting, and because the alternative — finding out at 3am in January that the driveway is half again as wide as the route allowed for — makes us late to everyone behind you.