The desk
About DrivewaySim
DrivewaySim is a trading name of Bond Labs Limited. drivewaysim.com
The tool
What this app is
DrivewaySim is a desk for UK driveway trades. Photograph a real drive. Type the metres. Draft an indicative paving quote on that photo. Block paving, clay pavers, permeable block paving, tarmac, pattern imprinted concrete, plain concrete, resin bound, resin bonded, loose gravel, self-binding gravel, concrete flags, natural stone flags, porcelain paving, or natural stone setts.
Typed metres price the job. A photo guess is not a tape. If length, width, included lengths or VAT are still open, the final total stays unknown. Occupancy never selects VAT. An estimate is not a VAT invoice.
Resin bound is not resin bonded. Bound is a trowelled carpet of stone in resin and can be permeable on a suitable base. Bonded is a scatter dressing: it is not permeable. Loose gravel is loose aggregate in a restrained bay. It is not resin bound and not self-binding gravel. It needs edging or the stone migrates. It can drain only if the build-up does. This desk does not prove that. Tarmac is two plant courses, a binder course and a wearing course, not one blended lump. An unstated mix is not called AC 20, AC 10 or SMA 10. A stated mix is typed by the yard and it does not change the £/m². A red or silver-grey wearing is a colour look. Pattern imprinted concrete is a slab stamped while it is workable, then sealed. Colour, imprint and seal sit in the surface rate. It is impermeable, and it is not block paving. Plain concrete names a finish only when the yard states brushed, tamped or exposed aggregate. An unstated finish is not called grey brushed. Self-binding gravel is rolled and wet-rolled until it binds. It is not loose gravel and not resin. Once compacted, most water runs off, and it needs edging. A gravel grid holds loose stone. It is not a SuDS certificate. A block laying pattern changes the cutting allowance only. It does not change the £/m². A block colour is not a bond. The heading names herringbone, stretcher or another pattern only when the yard states it. A clay colour is not a bond either. The heading names a clay pattern only when the yard states it. The picture paints a bond only when the yard states the pattern. The picture paints a joint fill only when the yard states the joint. An imprint name is a stamp in the concrete. It is not slate, cobbles, York stone or brick. Buff and plum loose gravel are colour looks. They are not an identified stone. The surface line names take-up, Type 1 or Type 3 only when that work is on the quote. Permeable concrete block paving is a separate surface from sand-jointed block paving. Joints are grit, not kiln-dried sand. 60 mm or 80 mm does not change the £/m². It is not a SuDS certificate and it does not grant planning permission. That rate starts empty until you type a price. A permeable charcoal look on a sand-jointed block quote moves onto that empty rate. A permeable charcoal 200 × 100 look is the block plan, not a measured thickness. It stays on that empty rate. Porcelain paving is outdoor flags, not concrete slabs and not natural stone. A mortar bed is not permeable. 20 mm does not change the £/m². It is not a slip-resistance certificate. A grey porcelain look is priced on the porcelain rate, which starts empty until you type a price. Concrete flags stay on their own book. Riven buff on concrete flags is a look. It is not quarried stone. Indian sandstone on the stone rate is a look. It is not identified from the photo. Natural stone setts are not concrete block paving and not a cobble imprint. 50 mm or 100 mm does not change the £/m². The joint does not change it. Mortar joints are impermeable. Other joints are not claimed permeable. It is not a slip certificate. That rate starts empty until you type a price. A silver-grey, dark or buff sett colour is a look, not a quarry certificate. It stays on that empty rate. A tumbled sett look is concrete block paving, not natural stone setts. It stays on the concrete-block book. A brindle 200 × 100 look is the block plan, not a measured size. It stays on the concrete-block book.
A path, patio or private apron is its own typed area and its own wearing line. It is not part of the drive take-up, sub-base or edging. An apron here is private paving. It is not a dropped kerb and it is not highways consent.
Dig depth and compacted sub-base thickness are separate. The dig is the excavation. The stone thickness changes the tonne allowance only. Neither is read from the photo. Neither changes the £/m². This desk does not design a CBR.
On block paving, slabs and natural stone setts, the joint is stated separately. Kiln-dried sand, polymeric sand, grit and mortar do not change the £/m². None of them is a SuDS certificate. A permeable-surface tick does not make that paving porous. Open joints are not claimed permeable. Permeable block paving stays its own surface.
A path, patio or apron in block paving, slabs or natural stone setts has its own joint. Mortar on that area is impermeable. Sand, polymeric sand, grit and an unstated joint are not claimed permeable. None of them changes the £/m². A permeable drive does not make that area drain.
Conventional block paving shows a sharp-sand laying course at a 50 mm guide, in cubic metres from the typed area. Kiln-dried jointing kilograms use an assumed bag coverage, not a cited guide, and appear only when that joint and a 50, 60 or 80 mm block are stated. A concrete haunch is 100 mm or 150 mm square along the typed edging. None of these is read from the photo. None of them changes the rate.
Slabs with mortar joints, and porcelain, show a mortar bed at a nominal 25 mm after compaction, in cubic metres from the typed area. An assumption, not a cited guide, spreads that bed to about 30 to 35 mm before it is beaten down. Porcelain makers often state their own bed. This figure is not that certificate. It is not dot and dab, not a mix design, and it does not change the rate.
Tarmac shows one bond coat as residual binder, at least 0.20 kg/m² from the typed area. That minimum is an assumption, not a cited standard, for a coat on newly laid asphalt or over existing asphalt. It is not litres of emulsion. A planed or milled surface is not this figure. It is not a compliance certificate and it does not change the rate.
A tarmac regulating course can state 20, 30 or 40 mm compacted. The tonne allowance uses that thickness and the typed area at 2.4 t/m³. It is not the binder course, not from the photo, and it does not change the rate. With no thickness stated, no tonnes are shown.
The jobs book holds follow-up dates, booked work and a next action for each drive. You can start a repeat job from a finished one. The rate book is yours. A work pack is for you on site. None of that prints on the customer sheet.
The desk needs a six-digit email sign-in before it opens. Jobs, photos and rates stay on this device until you choose a private cloud copy. The householder never needs an account.
Look and plan
Photo, look and schematic
A look on the photo is an illustrative edit of the real drive. It is not a measured fit, not a laying-pattern certificate and not a product sample. If the drive shape does not hold, the app says so and keeps the real photo.
If you type length and width, or an L-shape, the desk can show a schematic of that plan. It is drawn from the metres you typed. Visual depth and materials are illustrative where no specification is known. It is not a survey, fall, drainage or ground-condition plan.
Customer paper
Your name on the sheet
Quotes you print, share, email or send on WhatsApp show your trading name, logo, phone, email and VAT number from the Company page. The customer does not see DrivewaySim or Bond Labs Limited on that quote. If you have not set a trading name, the app will not print or share.
Once a quote is issued or confirmed, later working-plan changes do not silently rewrite that customer paper. Use an explicit revision if the scope you send the customer has changed.
A draft is an indicative estimate. It is not a site visit, not a contract, and not a fixed quote. DrivewaySim does not grant planning permission, dropped-kerb (highways) consent, or Building Control approval. A dropped kerb is not this paving quote.
Your sheet
What the firm keeps
The sheet carries your trading name, the metres you type and the price you set. A scheme, consent or certificate appears when you hold it and you record it.
- A site visit and a measured survey stay with you
- A contract with the householder stays with you
- A VAT invoice is issued from your own books
- Planning permission stays with the council
- Dropped-kerb consent stays with highways
- Building Control approval stays with the council
- Interpave, Marshalls, SuDS, TrustMark or Street Works badges appear when you record them
- A desk for the firm
Plus
DrivewaySim Plus
You get 2 free customer links each London calendar month without Plus. DrivewaySim Plus is £14.99 a month including VAT for 15 extra links that month. Unused monthly links do not carry over. Local print, PDF and text sharing remain free.
Plus is for you. It never prints on the customer quote. The seller is Bond Labs Limited, named on this page. If billing is unavailable, the app tells you before checkout.
Company
Bond Labs Limited
DrivewaySim is a trading name of Bond Labs Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17285766), registered office 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. Registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under number ZC188014.
ICO registration is a public fee listing. It is not a badge of approval and it does not appear on a customer quote.
- Legal name
- Bond Labs Limited
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Company number
- 17285766
- ICO
- ZC188014
- Registered office
- 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
- Domain
- drivewaysim.com
- Support
- support@drivewaysim.com
Privacy and terms for this app sit on their own pages. Write to Contact if you need the desk.
Effective 29 August 2026.
This version
DrivewaySim v0.6.0 · 15 Oct 2026 · 4f847e2
- The van lists blocks, sand, MOT Type 1, resin kits, edging and kerbs. A quantity can be reserved against a job and ticked off the van, and the low list is copied, not sent. A quote's material list is a supplier order from the typed area and depth. Before, dig-out and after photos sit on the firm's own store. The care sheet is one A4 page for that surface, with a guarantee only when the firm typed one. The month report, for the owner and the office, counts quotes, won and lost reasons, and invoices marked paid or unpaid.
- An accepted quote makes one A4 invoice the firm can mark paid or unpaid. The week calendar shows crew days, a double-booking warning, and a dry-forecast note for resin or tarmac. Job margins, for the owner and the office, set quoted net against typed hours, receipts and skips. Quick templates copy the rate book onto block paving, resin, tarmac, gravel and a dropped kerb. The first-run walk is rates, the first quote, then invite crew, and it can be skipped.
- Follow-ups at 7 and 14 days, a won or lost reason with a monthly view, and a crew day sheet live on the company book. The nudge is copied by the firm. The app does not send it. The customer aftercare sheet is one A4 page: weeds, kiln-dried sand in the joints, and a drive-on time or a sealer only when the firm typed them.
- The home photograph is preloaded from the page head. An accepted quote can download a one-page materials order with no prices: blocks with cutting waste, sub-base tonnes, sharp sand, kiln-dried sand, edging, membrane and a skip. The 36 m² block sample with edging and a channel stays £6,717.60 including VAT.
- The Famartin photograph is credited on the home page: the author, a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence link, the word Modified, and a photograph credits page. Imprinted concrete starts at £80 per m² exclusive of VAT. A 36 m² block sample with edging and a channel is in docs. Numbered notes can be placed on a survey photo. They show on the quote and the work pack, and they do not change the metres.
- The home slider uses Famartin's worn drive, CC BY-SA 4.0. Herringbone, brindle blocks, resin and tarmac are drawn on that photograph in the browser, and labelled as an illustration. The same drawing is on the customer link, on the customer's own photo and the finish the firm chose. A VAT-registered firm shows 20% and the typed VAT number. A firm that is not registered shows no VAT line. The survey sheet stays on the phone and one tap copies typed areas, edging, dig depth, sub-base, drainage notes, a dropped kerb, skips and waste onto the quote. Duplicate quote keeps a link to the original. A lost signal, a photo that is too big, and an expired customer link each say so in plain words and leave the draft as it was. What happens next shows only the weeks and dates the firm typed.
- The footer date is the git commit day, so a hand-typed year cannot lag the build. Not now on the home-screen install note stays hidden on this device. The hero credit is a small line, and the sample estimate type is larger on a tablet.
- A new firm sees three steps: add a photo, price the quote, then send the customer link. Skip, Done or Escape hides them, and they stay hidden. A photo does not set the metres.
- The jobs book finds a drive by customer name, postcode or status from the copy saved on this device, including when the signal is off.
- The home before photograph is a cracked concrete drive by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The after photograph is block paving by Patryk2710, CC BY 4.0. They are two different drives. The sample before tile is worn concrete drawn on the phone, and the colour you pick is named beside the swatches. The schematic front face is an illustrative sub-base colour, not a surveyed thickness.
- The first visit shows three steps: company, rates, then a new drive. Skip, Done or Escape hides it, and it stays hidden.
- The desk, invoice, handover and materials list keep visible names, a keyboard path and a focus ring. An accessibility check replaces a VoiceOver run.
- An accepted quote becomes an A4 invoice in one tap: invoice number, the chosen total, VAT, the firm's typed bank details or a placeholder, any deposit, and payment terms. The firm shares the PDF or the printed sheet. Nothing is taken from a card and nothing is emailed.
- A deposit can be none, a percentage, or a fixed amount. It shows on the customer link and on the invoice. A photograph does not set it. A fixed amount over the total is named and blocks the invoice.
- A finished job records the date, notes, and before and after photos compressed in the browser. The handover sheet prints care for the chosen surface, such as resin, block or gravel. It is general care, not a guarantee.
- The materials order lists tonnages, blocks or resin kits, edging lengths and skips for the crew or the merchant. It has no prices.
- On a short landscape tablet, free quotes are worded for a phone or a tablet, and Start Plus sits with Try the sample. The Harbury totals stay on the first screen. The sample schematic sits beside the textures, with the Turn slider in view.
- The sample drive prints as one A4 page. The customer marks their own photo and the chosen texture and colour are drawn on that paint in the browser, with a before and after slider. It is illustrative. No picture service is called.
- On the accept page the customer can choose good, better or best: gravel with a grid, block paving, or resin bound. The reply stores that finish and its total. Editing the priced paper still needs a fresh accept.
- The builder and the accept page name the size fields, the drive mark, the finish choice and the signature for a screen reader.
- One tap starts block paving, resin bound, tarmac, gravel with a grid, imprinted concrete, porcelain or Indian stone, plus edging, a dropped kerb enquiry, a drainage channel and a soakaway. Those rates are suggestions the firm edits. Indian stone still starts with an empty £/m².
- A front garden over 5 m² of new hard surface says to use permeable paving or drain to a soft area, otherwise check with the council. It says this is not legal advice.
- The sample before and after is a textured surface for the surface and colour you pick. It is illustrative, not a product sample. The home photograph and the Harbury estimate stay as they are. On a landscape tablet the material chips and colour swatches are larger.
- On a short landscape screen the home photograph and the two actions stay above the sample card. Dark mode is an icon with a spoken name. The sample survey chips open that estimate, including dig depth, fall and access.
- Customer paper shows a company mark when there is no logo, a validity date, and a name and date line for acceptance.
- Block, tarmac, resin bound, gravel with a grid, imprinted concrete, porcelain and slabs have starter prices. So do a dropped kerb, a drainage channel, a soakaway, edging, lighting, gates and posts, and taking up the old surface. Council permission for a dropped kerb is the customer's job.
- A front garden over 5 m² that is not permeable, with nowhere for the water to go, shows a short permitted-development note and an offer of permeable block. Exactly 5 m² does not. Water to a garden or soakaway does not.
- The sample and the quote let you pick a surface and a colour. The before and after drawing uses that colour on this phone. No picture service is called.
- The sample lists dig depth, fall and access as items to confirm on survey. Customer paper shows the company mark, VAT, a validity date and the acceptance status.
- The sample page shows the same Harbury estimate as the home hero, beside a herringbone drawing that fills the viewer.
- The sample drawing fills the viewer. Pricing on a tablet says this device, and Try the sample leads.
- An acceptance records who signed, when, the gross and the quote version. Editing that priced paper needs a fresh accept. The crew phone shows measurements, materials and the day, with prices hidden.
- A new firm uses the suggested rate card on the jobs book, then prices the first drive. The trading name can wait until the customer sheet.
- Public pages say what the desk does. Menu links on a tablet stay at least 48px. Help answers pricing, VAT, the 5 m² rule, dropped kerbs, the customer sheet, offline work, team codes and support.
- The finished-drive photograph is Patryk2710, CC BY 4.0. Home, the sample card and pricing use that photograph for the finished side.
- Search engines can read the public pages. The jobs book, sign-in and customer links stay out of the sitemap.
- An unanswered front garden is named on its own. One tap suggests in front of the house. Drainage stays a separate question.
- A new firm lands on the jobs book. A suggested rate card is one tap, then the first drive. The figures are a suggestion the firm confirms.
- Customer paper keeps a logo slot, terms, a validity date, and accept with a typed name. Issued quotes stay frozen.
- The start page shows the full DrivewaySim name on a landscape tablet, a readable sample caption, and a resin sheet beside the block sample.
- Shared company book, join codes and a ticked accept stay on the job. The first screen leads with a sample photograph and a finished sample estimate.
- The firm rate card saves the day rate, hourly rate, VAT, skip, muck-away and markup, so a new drive can price those lines. Issued paper stays frozen.
- A front garden over 5 m², and a dropped kerb, are warnings on the quote. This draft does not grant planning permission or highways consent.
- Open an example drive with typed metres. Customer paper stays closed until you mark it as a real drive.
- A photo cross-check scales taps from a known length. It never fills the typed metres, and it flags a difference over 15%.
- Skip sizes and bulking factors are one tap. The load count times your skip rate is a desk hint, not a quote line.
- The surface comparison opens on gravel, block and resin, with an illustrative swatch on each surface.
- A front garden shows SuDS and planning routes for you only. That card is not printed on customer paper.
- Each drive shows a private council checklist when a dropped kerb may be needed. Fees stay council-quoted.
- Your own guarantee and aftercare wording can print on new customer quotes and PDFs.
Quote this version when you write to support. It changes when the app updates on this phone.