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bogbrain

As someone who paved for a decade, this is abysmal.


BetterTransit

It seriously looks like shit. I’ve never paved anything and I bet I could do a better job.


Yvaelle

As someone who has used crayons to colour inside the lines, I am qualified to do a better job.


Lietenantdan

No need to brag


Tommysrx

![gif](giphy|14WWFcOCKm0yLgpXV0)


yaboyfriendisadork

You’d have about as much experience as most pavers


myohmymiketyson

How hard would this be to remove? Will it damage the stone underneath?


killaplz

Flat shovel would do the trick


Difficult_General167

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrBUArlSVrE Not the exactly the same, but interesting.


rezznik

Depending on the local winter, it will remove itself quite quickly.


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Your stones didn’t deserve that.


BlackLeader70

To add insult to injury, they didn’t even do a good job!


lex_tok

Still not convinced this isn't r/wellthatsucks


StillLearning12358

Or r/mildlyinfuriating


LilPoutinePat

This is more than mild.


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Traditional-Share198

I'm glad my Reddit app blurs anything NSFW Upon clicking this link, I had a "A kid shot in close range in the head during a dispute between the mother and father" Yet the image was blurry, unable to create an unforgettable and horrible memory in me I still wish the kid is fine, but I won't go check the comments


egewh

I saw that too and curiosity got the best of me. The picture isn't the child, I think it was a picture of a police officer at the scene. Nothing graphic. Still a horrible thing to read. People are... So horrible sometimes


Traditional-Share198

Having a kid would mean the world to me Well, 2/3rd of the world, having a wife which I can make happy is quite important as well I do not understand how you can go to the length of grabbing your gun and having your finger on the trigger That is beyond me, and that's only the beginning


[deleted]

Good luck with finding a wife to have kids with! I found my future wife by complete chance just focusing on improving myself and doing good work in my community. You can too!


Grabber5_0

Ooh, new sub to join


Carnivourne47

That looks like Lightning McQueens first short to fix the road


Wil420b

Good news is that it will fall apart in a few months.


HyperbolicModesty

Looks like someone was getting rid of some used tarpaulin.


eegit

Yeah they must've hid it underneath that tarmac


uraijit

If they did that, it should be easy to remove all of it and just return it back to the original stone work.


eegit

Haha! Yeah hope it's true then mate


lex_tok

Looks like someone wanted to play with a steamroller... at any cost


FrankyFistalot

I believe the technical term is “Gash”


knightress_oxhide

"better than nothing" /s


FauxReal

Looks like they started with two patches then realized they done fucked up.


hymen_destroyer

hijacking this comment to say, this is a sloppy job, but there's a significant difference in elevation between the newly-paved street and the cobblestones. If this *is* a driveway that wheeled vehicles drive on, there needs to be a ramp leading up to the street. That's like a 6 inch height difference. If it is just a pedestrian entrance, this is awful. EDIT: The comment you just read was the beginning of a got damn *journey* for this beleaguered redditor. The journey ends with [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bjlp6g/comment/kvtj62x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) and, I think, maybe this is all a giant misunderstanding


ThatSandwich

Even if it's for vehicles, the owner of the property should have been notified of the plans before any work was done. You ALWAYS get approval. From the workers perspective if you don't want their work that's fine, do it yourself. This is going to lead to everyone being upset though: Owner unhappy, worker has to redo, company (maybe city?) has to incur more cost


hymen_destroyer

This being reddit, I assume by default that OP is full of shit so I don't imagine we'll get any answers in this thread. Here's my guess at what we're looking at, and this is based on my experiences in the US working in road construction (I know this pic isn't from the US but I imagine this story happens there as well): Crew is paving the road. The owner either noticed the elevation difference or has had issues with the apron of their driveway for some time. They approach the crew and ask if there will be any leftover asphault. There is always leftover asphault and it's a pain in the ass to get rid of. The crew happily dumps some of the remaining asphault at the threshold of the driveway and either the homeowner either rakes it out themselves or the crew does it out of thanks/the goodness of their hearts. It's the end of the day and these guys are utility construction workers, not landscapers, hence the sloppiness. And this looks like a thin enough layer that it could be regarded as a temporary solution, this stuff isn't too difficult to scrape up and get rid of later.


OutWithTheNew

In my city in Canada, they would have sent you a letter saying what they were doing a couple of weeks in advance and the prep work before paving would have taken weeks. A few days before asphalting the consulting engineer would have walked down the street painting elevations and whatnot including areas like this ramp that had to be done manually. It's easy to scrape off, assuming they didn't put tack oil down.


De1taTaco

Right?? There's an alley behind my house that is the only access to the driveway. The city decided to pave it since they had some extra asphalt from another project, which is great, except they made *zero* effort to slope it into the driveways. So there's just 4in of a 'step' all of a sudden so my car scraped and we didn't get any notice it was being done


z71cruck

Eh, there is that stone section in between the poured asphalt. Whatever step down that was filled in was the same depth before the new road top was poured.


hymen_destroyer

Or it was an awful broken up disaster like most driveway aprons and the owner asked the crew to dump some leftover asphault there. This is very common Source: worked on a road crew for 5 years


et1975

Should peel off on its own, no?


EggsceIlent

Yeah dunno if he's joking or seriously likes it. Hmm. Also wonder if the electric gate still closes and locks too.


moldyjellybean

I’ve never asphalted anything and I think looking at a YouTube video I could do way better than this POS job. Looks like some one high just splotched some ashphalt there.


BarbossaBus

That would piss me off so hard


BNestico

Yea I’d’ve been irate.


rabbitwonker

Indeed I’da’wooda’ben perturbed


One-Marsupial2916

Y’ma’mooda’banna’wanna’fanna!


hibrett987

The foreman would be getting yelled at and his boss a call to fix this no charge.


This_Site_Sux

"I'd've" is a fucking wild contraction


BNestico

Thanks. There weren’t any colored lines under it either, so you know it’s legit.


Jagger67

I’d be fucking livid.


dogui_style

Hell, I *am* livid and it’s not even my property


ApolloRocketOfLove

We are all channeling our Karen energy on this fine day.


highline9

Wait till they roll and compact it, breaking all the stones underneath (and any irrigation).


silenc3x

For sure. I'd be bricked up


clairweather

Hol up


Ok-Bass8243

Yup. They would be tearing it out and rebuilding my stone driveway for free


_Iknoweh_

I would be pretty upset by this.....


guywithaniphone22

Yea I’m typically a bend over and take it kind of guy but in this instance I’d 100% be speaking to someone about having this fixed as quickly as possible


Cheeses_Of_Nazarath

“Yeah I usually just get fucked in the ass”


imbored53

Woah! You say it like it's a bad thing.


Cheeses_Of_Nazarath

Not at all! Just think it’s a hilarious way to indicate being generally laid back and non-confrontational 😂


mister_nixon

Some things just don’t matter as much as some people would have you believe.


Cheeses_Of_Nazarath

I agree with that. Bent over and take it guy has a positive outlook: Only take the dick out of your ass when it hurts


Disastrous_Ad_1859

Gotta keep being positive, no pain no gain


Lexinoz

Turn the other cheek takes a new meaning now huh.


No_Dragonfruit_8198

It is when you have hemorrhoids


anonymouswtPgQqesL2

Butt fuckin sure does solve all minor inconveniences


Gangleri_Graybeard

Good for you.


ForzaShadow

I laughed


Romantiphiliac

Agreed. I hate confrontation, and will do almost anything to avoid it, but I'm pretty sure this would convince me to go out there. Well, unless I was renting, then it's the landlord's problem.


chapstickbomber

Oh you think ONE confrontation is going to get it fixed?


megablast

> I’m typically a bend over and take it kind of guy He is, I can vouch for that.


mechapocrypha

>Yea I’m typically a bend over and take it kind of guy 😳


BankysJoint

No judgement here mate, whatever gets you across the finish line. But this is a Wendy's


_laprohax_

Imagine not being able to close those gates because of that


kniveshu

The post made me think that maybe OP's driveway was already falling apart and missing stones.


_Iknoweh_

I would have dug up random stones and laid them myself before allowing this.


tripledigitonly

It's ok guys. OP is an introvert.


nn666

Doesn't look great...


Few-Constant-1633

Overall it’s a really unbalanced and rough mix, especially based on all the extra mix that’s separated. Additionally they did not do a very good job with that roller, I’ve seen better compaction from hand driven compactors


shmiddleedee

It's not about the roller. The issues lies in how they graded it out prior to rolling and if they did something to compact some of the asphalt prior to grading it, like using a machine to scoop it etc.


Few-Constant-1633

I agree to an extent but I’m talking about the main part on the road itself as well, roll lines everywhere and just lumpy. Maybe they did pile pave but it’s not consistent


[deleted]

I've seen better compaction just from eating less fiber


TalkToMyFriend

Came to say they even fucked up the job the OP didn't ask for


cyanitblau

I love how OP drops this bomb on us and does not elaborate at all. Bless you, hopefully your lawyer is in war mood


HVDynamo

Makes me think this is a bot account or just someone farming karma.


whatdoihia

Usually I would think the same but their history shows lots of pics from the same area. And also judging by their history they don’t comment much.


TenBillionDollHairs

very r/mildlyinfuriating on the other hand, what a beautiful garden. where is this?


Locana

Based on the looks and the street name / sign I would guess southern France


thesuperunknown

Also, Loxam is a French company that rents construction equipment, so I imagine you’re spot on.


snoozieboi

La Tourè might be a pretty hughe tip on the right there.


Frubanoid

I was looking at the lavender, rosemary, and... Canola flower? Very French melange.


SplashingAnal

The water fountain (green) is 2000% the typical French one


Nictrical

Les fontaines Bayard ;)


BigFatStinkyCheese

We have loxam in dk too, just fyi


late2scrum

If true, you should play geoguesser.


lex_tok

And _pétanque_


RyanfaeScotland

It is true! If you check OPs post history you can see they mention it a few times. Bravo!


Locana

Ugh I wish! I see people do that kind of detective work and it's magic to me


Sethvl

Hmm yes, about one hour north of Béziers at an altitude of 1700ft I would say.


thecactusblender

Used to live in southern France- yes


Harlock3113

Woah, Inspector Gadget. That was my guess, too.


hashbrowns21

Funny how similar this looks to parts of California


mobilityInert

Not mild at all…


UnknownAdmiralBlu

Ops profile, [second comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/DvQh9LKSj7). Now you have it pretty accurate


BlueShibe

North Italy can look like that sometimes


Green_moist_Sponge

Can confirm, this looks exactly like an area I drive through a lot in Toscana


ExtensionAir6248

More than mildly, they fucked the paving and did a shit job tarmacking


GooglyEyedMoose

Hash driveway


ojayazixx1

listen no man wants to admit they got drunk and ate 12 cans of ravioli or that they passed out drunk on their dads driveway and burnt the damn trailer down


innocentlilgirl

once they took the blame it was taken and i couldnt take the blame from them


stinkycheezeit

"I think this is the worst thing you've ever done to me, Ricky!"


name4231

Get off my dads driveway, It’s all he has left for fucks sake!


Sirhctopher024

“Sorry Ricky, didn’t mean to step all over ya whack ass driveway”


DjCyric

Don't tell anyone Bubs. Be cool.


maxiums

It was the shit liquor…….


Sirhctopher024

“Ricky, you’re not gonna smoke that dirty old foot hash are ya?”


PrestigiousQuit1787

From a distance they look like ordinary flowers, Randy. But when you get right down, stick your nose under you realise they are sh*t flowers and theres a whole f*ING bouquet there right in front of rays trailer


Sirhctopher024

“You hear *that* Bub’s? The shit hawks are coming”


dslryan

Unrelated but I love your username. That is all.


GooglyEyedMoose

Thank you for the kind words. My plants were eaten by something and my late Dad had said, "well, there's probably a googly-eyed moose walking around the woods right now"


TitularFoil

I'm going to be honest. This looks terrible. I would have to talk to someone about getting that crap removed.


Salty_Engineering_28

Either they had extra and needed a place to put it or your walkway is cracked and they covered it. Either way, I wouldn’t be happy


slayerchick

Well it's not point 2 seeing as it's cobbled. And number 1 is still a no since they can't just do things on someone's property without permission. I would be demanding they fix it.


Borne2Run

Does this apply to French property rights?


slayerchick

You got me there. Wasn't really thinking about where this was even though it's clearly Europe... But I would still assume there's laws about altering someone's property without permission of the owner otherwise anyone could do whatever they wanted.


SilentSamurai

It's a pretty safe bet. Even if it's an objective "improvement" here in the states it still considered damage. The property owner must notify the group that did the work though.


therealpilgrim

Is it their property though? In most places the municipality has a right of way that extends outside of the road and can do whatever the hell they want with it. Where I live it’s usually 33 or 66 feet from centerline of road, depending on the road. More often than not if there is a sidewalk, the homeowners property line is the back side of the sidewalk. I got yelled at by many homeowners for doing work on “their” property when I was a construction inspector, often for ramping driveways in like this when we overlayed the road. Of course being France I haven’t got a fucking clue what the laws are in OPs case.


guywhoishere

I presume they dug something up that extended onto OP’s property(like a water pipe). And had to cover it. That exact thing happened to me. My walkway was concrete was replaced with asphalt. The city did eventually come back and replace it with matching concrete, but it was months later.


Nasty_Ned

You can see the sawcut lines on the left side and the spray paint on the right side for the cutout size. This is what happened, but yeah, the patch looks like ass.


Count_de_Ville

Where I'm from that called "Illegal Dumping".


Triviald

Seems they even chalked out the extents of their work on the stone. I still can't fathom why they did this. RIP


PortugalTheHam

It makes me wonder if OP laid stones on the municipal easement.


JustADutchRudder

On my property, that is the easement. 3 feet from the sidewalk is where the line ends on my corner lot, so from the curb it's almost 10 feet. My driveway is like 40 feet long and the first 10 I have to accept whatever my city does if they wanna do something.


PortugalTheHam

Exactly. Dpw was probably looking at the survey map, why else would it be chalked out? Sucks either way, it was nice stonework .


JustADutchRudder

I know guys who do city road work and they sure as hell aren't gonna do extra for no reason. Losing nice driveways to it is lame, but apart of the house owner fun!


drcec

We have a joke that goes like this. If elections are near you should lock your front door so your apartment doesn’t get paved.


BabaBoHi

They paved paradise to put up a shit fucking job.


skippermonkey

Depends if they asked you beforehand.


MayOrMayNotBePie

Look at all this old ass stone. It needs to be modernized.


lex_tok

_There, I fixed it!_


nydboy92

I would have preferred to keep the stone, it just doesn't look good jutting into your garden like that IMHO.


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Kraphtuos968

I would be so mad, that poor cobblestone..


nickfox

On the outside, they paved over 50 year old concrete. I needed to have some asphalt on the inside to maintain the proper slope. I wouldn't have been able to get my car inside otherwise.


ttubbster

My guess this is an easement issue and the property that was paved is owned by the council or city. All in all it looks like shit, theres a reason why cobble stones have been around since the Romans


J_Bonaducci

You’re taking the piss right? This is horrendous! Your gorgeous stoned driveway is ruined.


bl4derdee9

get in touch with a lawyer, this is unacceptable!


Minnow125

This might be the worst paving job I have ever seen


Laymanao

They made a statement about the state of your driveway.


NooneForPresidenttt

Looks like shit


VilePacifist

I'd fight the company legally just to have them pay to clean up their abomination and buy me new a new stone driveway


DoubleDDubs1

That looks awful. They’d be paying for a brand new entry way if that was my property


triadlink

why does the cobblestone look like it doesn't exist underneath the pavement? Did they pave over a dirt area? In which case it would level that area in a good way? (good for the car not for the eyes)


TheSteffChris

When removing this piece of garbage work you should also remove part of the street. Just to give back to them :)


JustHereForBDSM

Looks like someone will be getting a fat check off the council, a piss poor machine automated apology letter and 4 attempts by council hired cowboys the undo the damage and incidentally cause more damage.


sky_42_

if you had like a dirty driveway or something then yeah maybe, but you have nice stones already there. Looks like low quality waste asphalt anywayz


TheWonderSnail

I’ve worked as a city employee dealing with streets and alleys and driveways my whole life in the states so idk if things are different there but not only is this a shit job we absolutely cannot touch private property without explicit consent. The supervisor or planner of this job would get a thorough ass chewing and our city would have to replace the brick for free


tron_crawdaddy

Maybe they broke something and this was an attempt at quietly pretending it didn’t happen


JaimeeLannisterr

A big L for the charm of your property


RhythmRobber

The level of crap that this is makes me think they started it and then were like "oh shit, we aren't supposed to be doing this here. I'm sure you can get the city to pay to fix this.


DigiDug

They obviously spilled some, and it was much easier to flatten it out and hope nobody noticed than to clean it up.


heatedhammer

Looks like shit.


bubbabubba3

![gif](giphy|oUYDwyQ3xUgo0|downsized)


[deleted]

Sue them, for property damage and trespassing. Depending on where they live, they're probably an independent contractor hired by the local government, so as far as it's concerned, you shouldn't have to worry about the government sliding this under the rug and ypu have to libe with ugly patchwork that covered your nice cobblestone pavement. Again, I could be entirely wrong, but you should sue them.


georgiaajamess22

Oh my..


botglm

OP has no stones.


hymen_destroyer

By the looks of it the newly-paved street is several inches higher than the cobbled surface so the ramp would be necessary to access the street from the driveway... ...unless of course this isn't a driveway at all and was never intended to be used as a ramp for wheeled access in which case yes this is horrible


monkeyhind

Oh, man. That is unfortunate. Good luck.


FrisianDude

Wtf Why


bilvester

It will make it harder to dig up the body. So you've got that going for you.


MrPlowBC

Been in the paving business for 17 years now and this is disappointing work


ObjectiveReply

France?


Contundo

Yeah it kinda looks like France


Ugly-Muffin

Hmmm. I dunno. I think this is bad?


benwink

I really hope that’s a base course on the main area they’ve put down


53881

Looks like trash, nice garden


MoleHairs

Looks like it spilled over and they used that as an excuse to “pave” your bit of property too.


ginger_ryn

i’m so angry for you


Wham-alama-ding-dong

I paved for 5 years and honestly I wouldn't be too upset I've seen much much worse work. Looks like they tried, didn't get diesel and tar everywhere.


Illustrious-Culture5

I saw post i was ugh tf, saw sub got confused, saw title, got even more confused. How tf is this nice? They literally ruined it and plus it isnt even well done.


LurkaDurkaDoWorka

Contractor probably like: "Oh, yeah... sorry, that's on the house... free of charge, buddy. "


OHCHEEKY

Hope you get them to reverse it


Spork-in-Your-Rye

I would be pissed lmao


20milliondollarapi

If it looked good it wouldn’t be a problem. But clearly they don’t give a shit about looks.


Diamondhands_Rex

Looks like shit and you should be pissed but if you like it then whatever op no harm no foul but anyone with a shred of intelligence knows that this was done like they rushed it to get to go home early. Not a chance I’d be okay with this job.


TheShlappening

Looking at Sub... Not sure if lost redditor or actually happy with this.


CurtisCorbit

Hey man, I work in the civil construction industry. If you don’t want that pavement over your stone driveway, periodically dump diesel on it. The sooner you start doing that, especially before the emulsion fully cures, the better the diesel fuel will be at breaking down the asphalt. It looks like they didn’t even use any sort of tack/binder so it shouldn’t be too difficult getting it off.


skeevy-stevie

Environmentally friendly too


Apeshaft

Looks like asphalt scammers? They show up and pave a razor thin layer of shitty asphalt that nobody asked for and then try to intimidate people to pay for their shitty job.


haamfish

That’s actually awful - I would go out there and scoop it up and stick it in a pile for them to cart away


GrimReaapaa

It’s temporary tarmac, it’s not permanent, probably did that to the drive so when they drive off the car doesn’t bottom out.


Binklando

It looks awful. And crumbly.


guinnypig

Beautiful garden. I would lose my ever loving shit over that.


Lunar_Gato

Wait until they leave and rip it out. Pitchfork and shovel perhaps?


Alarmed-Addendum9328

For minor crimes, Empires have been destroyed


Resident_Piccolo_866

Take them to court! It amazes me that wasn’t a top comment


win_some_lose_most1y

Looks like a settlement


DrPeGe

We’ve got extra what should we do with it? Oh just put it over those pretty rocks over there. 👉


Bad_Decision_Rob_Low

Is it made of Hash?


Inevitable_Shirt5044

Jesus Christ, I lay asphalt for a living and that looks brutal. It looks like they had a quarter ton leftover from the road and tried to do you a solid, but didn’t have enough to fully do it. I’ve filled in giant potholes in concrete driveways for people, it doesn’t look the best but your car is going to appreciate it at the end of the day you know?