Paving calculators
Working estimates for the questions that come up before a paving tender goes out: what a surface should cost, how much material it swallows, and whether resurfacing still makes sense. Every rate on every one of them is traceable to a document you can open.
Last updated: By The Pavement Desk
calculators on this site
of them priced from named Canadian sources
What it should cost
Each of these turns a measured surface into a dollar band, using per-square-foot rates published by named Canadian firms and municipalities. They are built for checking a bid, not for replacing one.
Asphalt driveway cost
Size a driveway or a laneway and get a budget band built on the $3 to $7 per square foot three Ontario sources publish, with tear-out, grading and HST as their own lines.
Open the calculatorHeated driveway cost
Both halves of a snow-melt driveway: the installed price from four published Ontario sources that do not agree with each other, and what it costs to run each winter afterwards.
Open the calculatorAsphalt vs concrete
Both surfaces priced over the years you will own them, sealing included. Where the two published bands overlap it says so instead of naming a winner it cannot defend.
Open the calculatorResurface or replace
An Ontario contractor's four published conditions for when full paving is necessary, applied to your lot, with milling-and-overlay, full rebuild and a mixed approach all priced.
Open the calculatorPaver driveway cost
Interlock priced from four GTA installers who do not agree with each other, with the same surface in asphalt on the line underneath so the multiple is visible.
Open the calculatorAsphalt repair cost
Potholes, crack sealing and patching priced in the three separate units they are actually sold in, so a lump-sum repair quote has something to be checked against.
Open the calculatorSealcoating cost and coverage
Six Canadian sources that actually agree, for once. Price a lot against whichever of them you like, add the crack filling that comes first, and see how much sealer it takes.
Open the calculatorParking lot paving cost
Six lines instead of one number: paving, removal, catch basins, manholes, curb and striping, priced from a Toronto contractor's rate and the City's own municipal unit prices.
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How much material, how big a surface
These carry no prices at all. They apply a published density, coverage rate or piece of geometry, and they say on the page which document the constant came from.
Gravel volume and tonnage
Cubic yards, cubic metres and a tonnage band for any area and depth, defaulting to the 150 mm of Granular A the City of Toronto puts under its own roads.
Open the calculatorAsphalt tonnage
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation's own tender-tonnage formula, with its own published density for each Superpave and SMA mix rather than one rounded number for all of them.
Open the calculatorDriveway square footage
Four shapes, because a driveway is rarely a neat rectangle. Square feet, metres and yards at once, with the asphalt cost and the tonnage of hot mix underneath.
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What these will not tell you
None of these is a quote and none of them can become one. A calculator sees a number you typed; a bidder sees the sub-grade, the access, the phasing, the drainage that has to be worked around and how much of the lot has to stay open while the crew is on it. Those are most of the reasons two honest bids on one property differ, and none of them fits in a text field.
What the numbers are good for is the other direction. If three quotes come back and one of them is a third of the others, the band on these pages tells you which one to ask about. If a bid has no line for taking out the existing surface and the existing surface plainly has to go, the band tells you roughly what is missing. That is a narrower job than pricing a tender, and it is the job AsphaltPavingIndex is actually able to do honestly.
Every rate is a Canadian figure in Canadian dollars from a source named on the page it appears on. Where two sources disagree the wider band is published and both are named; where a source gives a range and no midpoint, no midpoint is invented to fill the gap.