# 20m² Resin Driveway Cost (UK 2026): £800 – £2,800

> What a 20m² resin driveway costs in the UK — £800 to £2,800 on published cost-guide rates, with the figures each guide gives for this size.

Source: https://resindrivewayprices.co.uk/20m2-resin-driveway-cost/

Plain-text mirror of the HTML page at the canonical URL above. Published for AI crawlers and agents; the HTML version is the indexable one.

---

A 20m² resin driveway (one car) costs £800 to £2,800 on published UK cost-guide rates.

Typical shape: about 4m wide by 5m deep — a single bay in front of a terrace or semi.

## Why this size, specifically

The worst value per m² of any size on this site, and there is no way round it. A resin crew still has to turn up, set up a forced-action mixer, lay, edge and clear away for a drive a third the size of the next one up — so the fixed costs land on very little area. Checkatrade prices 20m² at £140 per m², against £100 per m² at 100m².

## What the guides publish for this size
- **HomeHow** — £1,000 – £1,300 (stated total for a 20m² one-car drive)
- **Checkatrade** — £2,800 (stated total for a 20m² small drive)

## Access matters more than area

On a drive this small the machine and the grab lorry are often the problem, not the laying. A terrace with no side access can mean the old surface comes out by hand and goes down the street in barrows, and that shows up as labour.

## Overlaying is worth chasing hard

If the existing tarmac or concrete is sound, laying straight over it skips excavation and sub-base entirely. At 20m² that is roughly £500 to £1,000 of the job gone, on the published excavation and sub-base rates — a much bigger proportion of the total than it would be on a large drive.

## Watch the minimum charge

HomeHow notes that some installers apply a minimum fee regardless of size, and may add mileage if the job is outside their usual patch. On a job this small a minimum charge can be most of the difference between quotes.

## Groundwork and extras

These are the lines that decide whether a resin drive costs £2,000 or £6,000. Only MyBuilder itemises them; the other guides fold them into the per-m² rate or leave them out entirely.

| Item | Published cost | Source | What drives it |

| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Excavate and remove the existing surface | £10 – £20 per m² | MyBuilder | Varies with site conditions and how easily a machine and a grab lorry can reach the drive. |

| New Type 1 MOT sub-base | £15 – £30 per m² | MyBuilder | Needed whenever the existing base is broken up, or there was never one. Resin laid on a bad base fails at the edges first. |

| Removing an existing resin driveway | £800 – £1,800 whole job | MyJobQuote | Quoted as a whole-job figure rather than per m². |

| Edging or borders | £15 – £40 per linear metre | MyBuilder | Resin bound has to be laid up to a firm edge. With walls or an existing kerb you may need none of this; an open drive needs it all the way round. |

| Drainage improvement | £300 – £1,000 whole job | MyBuilder | Only needed where the ground does not take water away on its own. |

| Soakaway installation | £660 – £1,200 whole job | MyJobQuote | MyJobQuote puts a typical soakaway at around £850, smaller systems from £660 and larger ones at £1,000–£1,200. HomeHow gives £700–£1,000 for the same job. Most likely on clay ground, or when laying over a non-permeable base. |

| Dropped kerb | £370 – £2,000 whole job | HomeHow | The widest disagreement of any figure on this site. HomeHow says the work starts from £300 plus a £70–£100 council application; MyJobQuote puts the average at around £2,000. It is council-dependent, and it is a separate job from the driveway. |