People reasonably ask for a figure before anyone visits. Some of that is possible, and the parts that are not are worth naming, because a number produced remotely for Leduc is a guess wearing a quote's clothing.
What we can tell about your Leduc surface before visiting
A good deal, actually. Photographs show the cracking pattern, which is the single most useful piece of information about a surface, and they show whether edges are breaking away and roughly how worn the texture is.
What they do not show is area with any accuracy. People underestimate drives consistently, and an area that is wrong makes every figure built on it wrong by the same proportion.
They also hide the two things that cause surprises: whether machinery can reach the work, and what is under the surface. The signs you can photograph are genuinely useful, the base is not one of them, and the variable list explains which is which.
On the wheel
How to get a figure
Getting a useful Leduc number
Send photos and rough dimensions
Two or three shots from different angles and a rough length and width. That is enough for us to say what kind of job it probably is.
Get a range, honestly labelled
We will say what it is likely to be and what would move it, and we will call that a range rather than dressing it up as a quote.
Have it measured
Area on a wheel, access checked, condition looked at properly. This is the point at which a figure becomes something you can compare.
Agree the base contingency
Nobody knows what is underneath until the surface comes off, so how that would be priced is settled in advance rather than discovered.
The honest gap
Why your Leduc figure can still change
Because of the base, almost always. Until the old surface is lifted, the condition of the ground beneath it is inference rather than fact, and soft spots add work that nobody could have priced sooner.
The way to handle that is not to pretend it will not happen. It is to agree beforehand what additional base work costs per area, so if it arises you are approving a known rate rather than negotiating mid-job.
We can give a range from them, and photos genuinely help because they show the cracking pattern. What they cannot show is accurate area, access or what is under the surface.
Two or three shots from different angles and a rough length and width. That is enough for us to tell you what kind of job it probably is before anyone travels.
Because people underestimate drives consistently, and an area that is wrong makes every figure built on it wrong by the same proportion. It is measured on a wheel.
The base. Until the old surface is off, the ground beneath it is inference, and soft spots add work nobody could have priced earlier from the top.
By agreeing a rate for additional base work before anything starts. If it arises you are approving a known figure rather than negotiating with a crew mid-job.
Yes, and it is the only way to give you something comparable. A remote number is a guess, and comparing two guesses tells you nothing useful about either.
