After finding out that paving our driveway would cost over $20,000, we decided to go with chip sealing! We had a great experience with Don and ended up paying a fraction of the cost of what paving would have been with other companies. He happened to come by our home on a day we were there working on projects and was able to do it immediately! His crew was efficient, tidy and respectful. They did a meticulous job of leveling out the driveway first, removing any leaves and debris and carefully prepped the surface. They were in and out in around 3 hours and left us with a nicely sealed, level driveway that looks great! read more

Fabulous job redoing our driveway! Very happy with a professional, clean, quick job for a fair price. Highly recommend Don and his friendly crew. read more

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Don did an amazing job on our driveway. We have a brand new house with a longer driveway and large entryway to our garage and shop. We wanted a natural looking driveway and Don suggested a 'Chip Seal' appearance for a more natural looking driveway. He was confident it would fit our needs and style as well as our budget. We scheduled the 'Chip seal' project and are so pleased with the results. Don had a massive project here with many uneven areas, he completely evened out our entry way and leveled the entire area. He was very prompt and professional, he appeared exceptionally trustworthy as we had experienced some unfriendly other asphalt pavers during our bidding process. We are so very thankful for the beautiful driveway he placed, and his prices were much more affordable than other bids we had received !!!!! read more

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Don's done two jobs for us.very professional top knotch work. We would highly recommend him and his great crew.

This company owner Don talked a good talk to get the job to chip and seal our driveway but, the work was terrible! He finished the job and told us we needed to give it time to firm up. The work was done in June 2020 and he dodged our phone calls and when we did get ahold of him he said give it until October, which we did and now he keeps saying next week he will come look at it and just keeps putting us off. Weve had two new companies come out to see how to fix the problems and without us saying who did the work both companies said it looks like Dons paving. work and they are busy all over town fixing his work. I can only say you will be sorry if you hire this company! read more

First, a caveat: I really don't like Yelp. It is unfair to a lot of businesses because it filters reviews. Yelp claims this is in the interests of fairness, but that is crap. We own a business that has gotten two bitchy reviews and a whole bunch of 5 star reviews. ALL of the 5 star reviews have been filtered out. Want to know the whole story on a company? Look for the charcoal "FILTERED" below posted reviews and read those, too. Even when I have offered to send Yelp the names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of stays of the reviewers, they have haughtily refused, saying that information is "irrelevant." If Yelp's alorithm is incapable of weeding out the phony reviews posted by competitors, and if it does weed out legitimate reviews filled with detail, what good is it? However, I am giving you enough detailed information about this company so that you can decide for yourself if Don's is worth the risk; I know Yelp is not. We first had Don come pave our driveway two years ago. He bugged out soon after the Bobcat work to attend a court case with his ex-wife, leaving his brother and crew to do the paving. They did a clean, nice job and put a slurry coat on top of it the same day. That's when the trouble began. It was very hot, and every time someone drove into the driveway, they gouged it. Very soon after, we discovered the promised depth of 2" was in fact 1/2" in many places. Just some of what we learned since then: 1.) You don't put a slurry coat over fresh asphalt because it doesn't cure right. Don blamed his brother (whom he claimed he fired soon after). 2.) One of Don's competitors claims Don bids low because he intentionally shorts customers on the depth of asphalt. 3.) It wasn't until my husband threatened a small claims court case that Don returned our calls. To Don's credit, when he came up and looked at the driveway, he put it in writing that he'd come back the next year to lay additional asphalt, but neither he nor we could coordinate a time to do this. He did come back in the fall of 2012. He then offered us a $2500 discount if we would just let him patch the thin spots where we knew we had a problem. The trouble with that was, who knew where all the thin spots were? We had him go over the whole thing and it looks good, although by adding material by our garage, where water runs off the drive, he created a place where there is now standing water after a rainfall. Had this been excavated and asphalted properly the first time, it wouldn't have happened. Here is where it really gets interesting: We asked Don for bids on two more properties. This time, we were going to be a lot more watchful, making sure we got the full 2." One of the jobs was for a new entrance to an old driveway that connects to the county road. We pulled a building permit for the new cut, which was done several months ago. The heavy equipment operator who did that job works with Trinity County all of the time and was confident about the requirements for Don to pave the whole thing and make the inspector happy. He had done the initial work well and was clear on what Don needed to do. So Don gave us a signed bid on that job and was to meet with my husband and the inspector the next day to go over it. It is very difficult to schedule anything with the county, because their hours are so limited, so we were glad to get the appointment, especially since the weather is turning. That night, Don called and told my husband that he was having second thoughts. He waffled on the job requiring the inspection by the county, saying it was too hard, not doable, should cost twice what he quoted and so on. Finally, my husband pinned him down and Don said he quit; he would not do either job. Mind you, we pay the day the work is done and that's exactly what we expected to do for these two jobs. But I guess to our discredit, if we have a problem with the quality, we complain and expect it to be fixed. When my husband said it sounded as though Don had chickened out, Don threatened to meet him at the job site the next morning and "kick your ass." Not a rational approach. Next morning, my husband did meet with the inspector and the original contractor who cut the new entry to the driveway. The inspector was perfectly happy with the job and the paving plan. But of course Don didn't show up. Since then, an asphalt supplier who has sold to Don said he is completely freaked out by the idea of his work being inspected. All I know is we lost our paving window for this year, Don is out $15,000 in work and every time someone mentions paving, I will encourage them not to use Don's services. read more

They are a rip off!!!! If I could put no stars I would! He drove by my house offering extra payment, saying he did a big job for Boyd's trucking saying he did over $50,000 worth of work. This guy charged me $2,500 for a job saying it's better then black-top but gray! For putting black top it was around $2,000 and All he did was spray black tar and sprinkled gravel I top of it. This guy is a rip off. The gravel is loose and just making a mess as I drive over it. I should have looked on here before I had him do the work. I see a lot of people have gotten ripped off by him. read more

I have NEVER seen a crew work together in harmony like Don's! Even the neighbors all stood in the street. No one could believe how orchestrated things were. They came down my street like they were the swat team ready to rescue me, and that they did! I told Don they seemed to work together like one brain. They kept everything clean and tidy throughout the process. The only thing they left behind was a dynamite driveway! Thank you, Don and crew! You rock (no pun intended)!!!! read more

Dons crew was excellent and very respectful . Don gave us awesome customer service and a very pleasant experience price was best we could find in norther California work was perfect and the clean up was very impressive I would recommend dons paving for anyone looking for a stress free experience with a contractor and his crew everyone on his crew was extremely nice to us and our young kids . Oh yeah and our pets and they work around our schedule ,not there's which I thought was a number 1 for us to have this work done because of my busy schedule 5 star class AAA job thanks don for the pleasant experience will be having you back again to do more driveway work for us once our shop is finished great job thanks don and co read more

I have done FOUR jobs with Don over 3 years. I keep coming back and will finish an additional parking lot this month. I had zero drama with Don or his crew. I had a few contractors come and take a look and try as we could we found nothing wrong with any of his work and I had a dirt road that used to be a river in the winter. Go ahead and check out the Heidi T review she is just a crazy. Just like Loree C said I found his crew neat and professional. Don went the extra mile for me and tossed in some additional parking bays for free and also a wider turning radius for free and extended the drive way for a bonus as we did do a large job. We had no thin spots and two of the jobs I was not even there because Don is drama free. They even dusted off my encroachment for free and it took hours and it was not even their duty to do so. Don goes the extra mile, or in my drive way a quarter mile. AAA++++ read more

Some guy cruises down my long secluded driveway, uninvited, and asks me if I would like a fresh layer on my asphalt driveway. He gave me the old, "we're finishing up a big job nearby and don't want to haul the extra materials back to Redding," routine. I had been considering doing some repairs on the driveway, so I agreed to let him to work up a figure, just to see. He did some measuring and came back with a figure of $4200, this is for like around 1000 square feet of asphalt driveway. I talked him down to $3500. The guy raved on about chip seal, crushed aggregate, whatever, I just figured it would be a fresh layer just like he said. He said his crew would be out later that day to finish the job. They showed up much later than expected and I saw them pouring gravel over the top of the driveway. I didn't think much of it, I just thought this was one of the beginning phases of the process. Keep in mind, I'm expecting a black, smooth surface once finished. A little while later, the sales guy came up to the door and said they were done. I walked out with him to review the work, I said, "This is just gravel." He replied, "That's your chip seal." You can't be serious, these guys basically ruined a perfectly fine asphalt driveway by pouring oil all over it and covering it with gravel. I've spent the last month trying to sweep as much off as possible. It looks absolutely dreadful, and my kids no longer ride their bikes or toys on it anymore. I called back to complain and told the owner Don how much I hated it. He told me to "Let it set up...It will grow on you." What a crock. They shouldn't be selling chip seal to people who don't want it, they should show people photos of the finished product while they are selling it. But, if they did that, nobody would buy it. Why would anyone put chip seal over asphalt? If these guys come to your house offering chip seal, tell them to get lost. Also, I noticed their trucks parked out at the local hotel for nearly a month afterwards. I thought they were headed back to Redding? Lame. read more

Many of our neighbors had their driveways paved by Don two years ago. They all raved about his work and the outcome, so a year later we decided to have ours done as well. We are very pleased with how clean a job he and his crew did. Two months later we had him comeback and pave a few more areas on the property. We hope to have come back this summer to do a slurry seal. ----- This morning I just got a call from my mother who said she had him do her driveway, and now she is wondering why she didn't do this a long time ago. Our homes are so much easier to keep clean now. read more

Don returned and redid a job . He backs up his warranty . I will recommend his company to everyone to everyone

I also thought Don's grading work was excellent and his crew very neat and professional. My new driveway was also a little thin in places but Don promised to come back and add more asphault. I was waiting for fall to have him come back . I'm sure he will do me right . The new driveway made my house look fantastic. No more dust and it just all looks so neat and clean. read more

Honest, professional and quality work at a very affordable price. Don is a "straight - up" guy. After completing my project, he sealed the front entrance road at no cost in exchange for allowing him to park some of his equipment on it when he was completing jobs nearby. I could not recommend anyone else for asphalt work in the northstate. Don is the best! read more

i've worked for don for a couple years! and i can honestly say that doesnt sound right at all.. hes a good hard working man with great quality services and if he says he'll lay it down 2' thick itll be 2 inches. since the job was not done by him the review shouldnt be towards him... he does have a little temper though.. but as his nephew as well i guess it runs in the family. dont be discouraged at all. he does provide great services. read more