UK Resin Driveway Price Index 2026

Methodology

We found 1,459 candidate installer websites belonging to 1,436 businesses (19 firms run more than one site; sites sharing a phone number or email count as one business). We read 1,300 of those businesses' sites, and 1,012 offer resin driveways. 136 were not read: their robots.txt asked crawlers to stay out, their server refused us, or their homepage could not be fetched. Data collected on 7 October 2026; figures last recalculated 7 October 2026.

How installers were found

Candidate businesses came from two places. The first was a Google Maps business search for “resin driveway installer in” each of more than 400 UK towns and cities. The second was Companies House: active companies with “resin” in their name and a construction or landscaping industry code, matched to their website. Directories, marketplaces, social networks and DIY resin kit sellers were excluded. Each business counts once, however many towns it appeared in. Some firms run a separate website for each town they cover, so websites that share a phone number or email address are treated as one business, using its lowest and highest price across all its sites. A business only counts as a resin driveway installer if its site mentions both resin and driveways, which keeps out resin flooring firms.

How the sites were read

Our crawler identifies itself as ResinDrivewayPricesBot and links back to this section. It follows each site’s robots.txt, and where robots.txt cannot be read it treats the whole site as off limits. It requests at most one page every five seconds from any one site and reads at most twelve pages per site: the homepage plus the pages most likely to state prices, guarantees and service areas. It does not run JavaScript, log in, fill in forms or get around any block. A site that refused us was recorded as not read and left alone.

What counts as a price

Only a figure stated per square metre counts. A whole-job price (“from £3,000”) is not converted, because the area behind it is rarely stated. A per-m² figure counts as a resin price only if the nearest surface named before it is resin. Installers often price block paving, tarmac and concrete on the same page, and those figures are excluded. So are:

• prices for resin patios, paths, pool surrounds and floors
• material-only or labour-only rates
• add-on surcharges such as ”+£15/m² for clay soil”
• prices in blog posts and guides, which are usually market commentary rather than the installer’s own rate
• prices on shop pages selling DIY kits by the square metre
• unlabelled cells in comparison tables, where the column a price belongs to cannot be read reliably
• anything outside £15–£250 per m²

Resin bonded (a cheaper scatter-coat finish) counts as well as resin bound, because both are resin driveways and installers price both.

Each installer is represented by its lowest published resin rate (the “from” price) and its highest. Medians and quartiles are taken across installers, so a site that lists twenty prices still counts once.

Checking the extraction

Every figure is stored with the sentence it came from. Before publication, random samples of 40 extracted prices, the cheapest and dearest prices, and the longest and shortest guarantees were checked by hand against their source text. Each error found became a rule and a test case, and the check was repeated until a fresh sample came back clean. The rules lean conservative: a resin price written in an unusual way is more likely to be missed than a non-resin price is to be counted.

Guarantees are the longest stated in years for workmanship or the resin system. Guarantees for other products (block paving, decking, roofing) and “years of experience” claims are excluded.

Why there are no names

The download has no business names or web addresses. The point of the index is the market rate, not ranking individual firms. A price on one firm’s website is also not an offer to you, and a list of who is “cheapest” would invite exactly that misreading.

What this index does not measure

• Quoted prices. These are rates installers publish on their websites. What you are quoted after a site survey may differ, often because of groundwork.
• Whether a published rate is the installer's own price list. Some installer sites quote a general range ("resin driveways typically cost £X–£Y in the UK") rather than their own rates. We record what each site publishes, as written, and do not try to tell the two apart.
• Installers that do not publish prices. They are counted in the share that publish, but their rates are unknown and may differ systematically from those that do.
• Groundwork, excavation, edging and drainage, which every major cost guide treats as extra. See our cost calculator for those.
• Job quality, materials used, or whether a business is reputable. Inclusion is not a recommendation.
• Change over time. This is the first edition; month-on-month movement will be reported once there is more than one.
• Minimum job sizes and how they relate to price: 0 of the 67 installers that publish a price state a minimum job, too few to compare.