Overflow parking

[Furniss]

No its shite Fred ... gets pulled up and weeds still grow

 

[Smiffy]

Only trouble with all your grasscrete, grids etc is eventually the grass grows over the top and you end up no better off than grass for mud if its wet. Most of the issues with gravel come from what's underneath it if it doesn't drain well. At least with gravel you can scrape it off with ditching bucket and re gravel, not so easy with other methods.

Depends how often it's used,
There is a patch that's been installed on the verge on the a272 that has been there a few years now, it's the only parking for a row of terraces so gets heavy use, and actually it looks really good, yes you can see the concrete but it's a lot better than the alternatives, it would probably benefit from a rotary sweeper going over it every few years and reseeding every time the soil level reaches the height of the concrete but that should be a fairly easy task.

 

[fred]

No its shite Fred ... gets pulled up and weeds still grow

nah it doesn't. used it many times on gravel drives, mainly to stop the hardcore mixing with the chippings, without issue.

 

[JD450A]

No its shite Fred ... gets pulled up and weeds still grow

I concour.

 

[T whiting]

Half the problem with gravel is there's too many cowboys laying it on soil 6inch of stone as flat as possible teram then gravel works well half the time when you see teram it's usually a lump in the hardcore or a lack of gravel. It won't stop weeds though. They grow in the muck that washes down between the gravel

 

[GazCro]

No to terram, gravel won't stay put on it unless you pile it on and create a gravel trap for cars and as i mentioned earlier it makes scraping off and re gravelling later if needed an utter t**t.
It does stop the bulk of the weeds growing any deeper than the gravel mind but there's a few which will punch through terram.
As for the gravel mixing with the hardcore without it not a problem unless your hardcore is lacking fines or compaction imho.

 

[doobin]

No to terram, gravel won't stay put on it unless you pile it on and create a gravel trap for cars and as i mentioned earlier it makes scraping off and re gravelling later if needed an utter t**t.
It does stop the bulk of the weeds growing any deeper than the gravel mind but there's a few which will punch through terram.
As for the gravel mixing with the hardcore without it not a problem unless your hardcore is lacking fines or compaction imho.

With you in this one. Chunky hardcore needs to be blinded with type 1 well compacted before gravel on top.

 

[Furniss]

With you in this one. Chunky hardcore needs to be blinded with type 1 well compacted before gravel on top.

If the hardcore lacks fines in areas (which sometimes happens as you trim it to grade with the machine) then we blind with a bit of fines and wacker in before the gravel

 

[doobin]

If the hardcore lacks fines in areas (which sometimes happens as you trim it to grade with the machine) then we blind with a bit of fines and wacker in before the gravel

What do you use for fines to add?

 

[V8Druid]

It's the oher way round down here, nobody wants locally sourced Solent gravel, they all want Cotswold Buff at £100 a dumpy bag!

Solent's what we've got here Doob ..... 80 quid a bag .... and quite a few of them ... but keeps 'the boss' happy

 

[doobin]

Solent's what we've got here Doob ..... 80 quid a bag .... and quite a few of them ... but keeps 'the boss' happy

£23 a ton here, want me to bring you some next time I visit?

 

[V8Druid]

£23 a ton here, want me to bring you some next time I visit?

spose it's the tranny costs pushing it up so much .. 4 dumpies might slow you an' the missus down on the way up Boyo

 

[Left hooker]

Chain harrow on gravel drives helps keep weeds down

 

[Furniss]

What do you use for fines to add?

Use a sand non classé - called" 0-6mm sable TP" - massive heap at end of quarry not classified used to backfill trenches/tanks etc - sets really hard after compaction.

 

[V8Druid]

Use a sand non classé - called" 0-6mm sable TP" - massive heap at end of quarry not classified used to backfill trenches/tanks etc - sets really hard after compaction.

something akin to 'quarrydust' over here 'praps ... tops planings off nice .... put 60 ton down in my yard to blind off the hundreds of tonnes of planings when I did that years ago

guess who on the roller ... looking much younger, one Saturday afternoon, in June '02

 

[Mark]

Weedkillers have been banned for the public for a year or two here in France and I am continually getting asked what we can offer driveways ect , lots of people dont like concrete or tarmac and everyones gravel driveways are basically just weeds now (mine down to the man cave included) and I wondered if anyone had any experience with an overflow parking type product that would be suitable for certain secondary drives to garages etc ie grass grows through and can be mown but allows traffic in winter all the same.

Cheers

Adblue does a good job of killing weeds

 

[Grahams]

Adblue does a good job of killing weeds

and paintwork.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Adblue does a good job of killing weeds

So does salt...

 

[Mark]

I’ve got a 25 litre drum of industrial strength round up and egg cup into 15 to 20 litres of water and it kills anything

 

[Canal Navvy]

It's the oher way round down here, nobody wants locally sourced Solent gravel, they all want Cotswold Buff at £100 a dumpy bag!

That is utter madness, our cotswold goes dusty too quickly!

We have been using Romsey shingle as it performs better and has the added benefit of being difficult to move over quietly.

I realise that aggregates double in price every 50 kms moved but hadn't realised that our stone is a backload from yours