Why has Tarmac recently not been as popular as a driveway surface as block and concrete?

Tarmac Asphalt is still a popular driveway surface. Modern day Tarmac surfaces are better than ever. The trouble nowadays is that there is not the quality of installers and contractors around to do small driveway areas. Tarmac Asphalt has never been used before in such quantities as it is during present day times and there is no end to its ever increasing use. It is by far the most used surface material with Motorway, roads, airports, footpaths, playgrounds, car parks, recreational spaces, driveways and the list can continue – you only have to look around you. Most of present day uses have been more commercial than domestic – yet the house builder is constructing more houses with Tarmac driveways than ever before. Those house owners who would like asphalt surfaces have found difficulty in finding suitable contractors who deal in small driveway schemes. Gone are the days (thank goodness) when the “black- stuff” cowboy operators were knocking on doors offering cheap rubbish makeovers ...  more