Ten Mile Point driveway, Saanich

A stamped asphalt driveway for a Ten Mile Point home in Saanich: grey ashlar pattern running from the street to a stone-and-timber entry.

A driveway at a Ten Mile Point home in Saanich, stamped in a grey ashlar pattern that runs from the street to the house's stone-and-timber entry. The pattern is ashlar, large rectangles laid in broken courses, with a darker border band following the edge of the drive, and it sits with the stone piers and timber posts of the house in a way a plain asphalt drive would not.

StreetPrint is an asphalt imprinting system: a heated steel template pressed into the asphalt so the pattern is built into the surface, with StreetBond colour rolled into the imprint. The manufacturer publishes a 10–20 year service life, a slip-resistant textured surface, and snowplow and de-icing salt safety; because the pattern is in the asphalt there is nothing to peel and nothing to re-lay, and it can go over sound existing asphalt. A homeowner planning a driveway should ask to see pattern and colour together, and whether the existing asphalt is sound enough to take a stamp.