Hardstanding - Help with hardstanding

[handy2no]

Hi, new to this!wonder if someone can help me. wanting to make a hard standing (economically) on an area of ground at side of house, at present grass and getting chewed up. my idea is to dig out and put a 100mm sub base of stone dust rollered, then painted with a tack coat and to this add some coloured stone chippings and roller in, can you tell me if this would work as a simple roll on roll off surface, thanks

[steve r]

Basically you get what you pay for.
The stone chipping wouldn't last very long as the base would be liable to scuff up.
Have a look at the main web site here site map and have another think.

[handy2no]

Hi, thanks for your reply steve, i feared as much, strange coincidence, my names phil rogers

[Tony McC]

Hardstanding usually means a bound surface. There are two principle methods of binding a surface: bitumen and cement. Bitumen bound is what is known as "Tarmac"; cement bound is better known as "Concrete".

Laying a flexible (ie: unbound) sub-base and then using a tack coat is a complete and utter waste of time. The sub-base id too flexible to offer adequate support to the tack coat. Further, tack coat is the wrong product - what you're thinking of is "Tar & Chip", but this, too, requires a fairly firm and regular substrate: a flexible sub-base would not be adequate.

Your cheapest and simplest option is concrete and you can read all about that option on this page.

[handy2no]

Hi, thank you for your reply and information, i realize that it would be a pointless waste of time and money doing it my way, thanks again, Phil