Six inches. That’s usually how deep the real problem goes on a driveway that cracked in year two; not the slab itself, but whatever base prep got skipped underneath it. I hold a Masonry Construction certificate from Southeast Community College’s Milford campus, and most of what I know came from redoing my own driveway twice before I got it right. Asphalt, stamped concrete, plain broadcast, I’ve poured and torn out all of it on houses across Lincoln. People ask me whether to resurface or replace, and the honest answer depends on what’s happening underneath, not what you can see on top.
