Ground Protection Mats

V8Druid

V8Druid

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Yeah there are a few online doing buckets of 100 starting about 120 i was hoping to pay about £20 🤣
how about some 20/25 x 3 flats in pairs, say 30-35mm long ... drilled as a pair with a hole to suit a tek screw, then open up one of the pairs with a clearance size and counter sink for C/s head teks ... dog up and disc off what protrudes :unsure:
(and maybe even a dot of hot stick on the side you cut to length?)
 
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6feetdown

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how about some 20/25 x 3 flats in pairs, say 30-35mm long ... drilled as a pair with a hole to suit a tek screw, then open up one of the pairs with a clearance size and counter sink for C/s head teks ... dog up and disc off what protrudes :unsure:
(and maybe even a dot of hot stick on the side you cut to length?)
Yeah was thinking of similar good idea with tec screws 👍🏼
 
Giles

Giles

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Have some as well we tend to use these style for the muck while running on the thicker ones
 

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6feetdown

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These are similar to the ones I have. Nice and light and bendy - but you wouldn't want to run machinery across a wet lawn with them as too thin/soft. Anything more than a Micro/track barrow needs heavier ones.
Similar to mine we used 3t dumper loaded on terrible soft grd last few weeks, I'm genuinely amazed how flexible they are
 
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Tintan28

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I’ve just recently bought some very similar from multimatts.co.uk, I got 30 @ £55+vat.
I bought them for covering a rigid insulation based block & beam floor whilst SIPS panels are being erected etc prior to screed being laid. OSB would have £10-£12+ vat & probably not much use afterwards especially with the rain we’ve had. So this client will have paid me nearly a1/4 of their costs when I uplift them. They are fairly flexible but light enough to handle & will be ok for protecting ground with the light plant I run.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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Stroppymonkey

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Basically new price?

Your link is for low density 10mm boards 1100mm wide. The fb ones look like medium density 1200mm wide maybe 15-20mm thick?. Big difference in function. Still not cheap at £100 though!

Groundboards are like plywood.. all different qualities and thickness and difference in use and difference in cost
 
groundworker

groundworker

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Your link is for low density 10mm boards 1100mm wide. The fb ones look like medium density 1200mm wide maybe 15-20mm thick?. Big difference in function. Still not cheap at £100 though!

Groundboards are like plywood.. all different qualities and thickness and difference in use and difference in cost
He says 1100 wide, 10mm thick and 22kg in the ad, I did see it says MD but the ones in the link are 24kg so similar density? And visually look the same - single hand hold in each rather than the more common two (which mine have).
 
groundworker

groundworker

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I've got the 12mm ones, mainly use them for grab piles or running mini machines over to save ruining a lawn.

They are definitely floppy though, sometimes that's useful but usually not - I put them down on a sandstone patio and ran the track dumper back and forward for a few weeks, half a dozen cracked slabs under there when I lifted the boards :cry: Ply would have been better in that instance.

Still invaluable in my opinion, would dread to think what I would have spent on ply in the last two years if I hadn't had them.
 
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Stroppymonkey

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I've got the 12mm ones, mainly use them for grab piles or running mini machines over to save ruining a lawn.

They are definitely floppy though, sometimes that's useful but usually not - I put them down on a sandstone patio and ran the track dumper back and forward for a few weeks, half a dozen cracked slabs under there when I lifted the boards :cry: Ply would have been better in that instance.

Still invaluable in my opinion, would dread to think what I would have spent on ply in the last two years if I hadn't had them.
I’ve gone extreme with the last ones I bought .. 300kg each 🙄
 
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