Hoggin driveway - Advice please on repairs

[Troubled of Bucks]

Can anyone advise me please on how to repair potholes in a hoggin driveway. Is it simply a matter of filling the holes with fresh hoggin or similar self compacting gravel or will I have to dig up what is there and recompact the whole driveway? Any advice would be much appreciated.

[GB_Groundworks]

i think hoggin is a southern term? but its considered the lowest of the low in the aggregate world, you should just be able to refill the holes and compact with a plate compactor(wacker), but they are likely to return

alternatively have it stripped off and a more hard wearing surface laid so you wouldn't get the pot holes in the first place

giles

[msh paving]

we use hoggin all the time in norfolk,best way to repar is dig out a square hole bit bigger than you have got refill with more hoggin,only fill with same material as your road is made from other wise it will pop out give it a good compaction job done ,if you have lots off holes best to rip surface up to 4 inches regrade and roll,

[Troubled of Bucks]

Thank you guys most helpful. The drive is 120 feet long so I won't be ripping it out any time soon but it's a shared driveway too so difficult to spend other peoples money. My neighbour keeps getting quotes for just the first part of the driveway and the cheapest was 14,000 or so going up to 19,000..........Don't think so! Thanks again

[lutonlagerlout]

hoggin, possibly the worst surface in the world.


"sets like iron" they say


yes until it rains

do as the guys above said ,but even type 1 and shingle would be a better bet than hoggin

LLL

[Tony McC]

Back in the mists of time, when garden makeover shows were the in-thing on the owld gogglebox, I'd regularly get a call from some production company minion explaining how they were doing a garden somewhere in the far north, near Stoke or that sort of high latitude, and [ insert name of gormless zelebrity here ] is insisting they use hoggin for the paths, but they can't find any locally: can I tell them where to get it?

My stock answer was that, up here in the civilised part of the country, we had far more sense than to use hoggin for anything other than filling skips, and what they actually needed is known as a self-binding gravel. However, if [ repeat name of smug tw*t here ] is adamant about using hoggin, they might find it useful to know that, up here, we pronounce it as "shy-te", and any half-decent landscape supplier would be able to fix them up with as much of it as they desired.

[Dave_L]

The drive is 120 feet long so I won't be ripping it out any time soon but it's a shared driveway too so difficult to spend other peoples money. My neighbour keeps getting quotes for just the first part of the driveway and the cheapest was 14,000 or so going up to 19,000..........Don't think so!

Eck! Rather expensive!!

[lutonlagerlout]

i was hoping this one would escape the gaffer's attention :;):
cant you do the thing tony where when someone types in a word it gets changed to something else?
for hoggin===>> shyte

LLL