Graveling my drive

[easyrider]

Over the past few months I have been busy kerbing my driveway.Now is the time to gravel it.The driveway has had road chippings on it for the last five years while I was building the house.I bought them dead cheap and they have served their purpose well..Keeping the build site clean.However they do my nut in. They are small and get everywhere and get stuck in bike boots soles

Anyway I digress,I'm looking at something new not the standard gravel...Anyone had any experience of graveling drive ways or had their done?

ideally I would love tarmac but I can't justify the cost.









easy:)

[Dave_L]

Nice work on the kerbing!

In my experience the gravel will be OK on the straight sections of your drive but when it comes to areas where the car is turning, you will find yourself forever raking it level.

Just don't lay it too deep; 40-50mm at the most.

[lutonlagerlout]

14mm granite chippings work well
knit together nice
LLL

[easyrider]

What do you think about moonstone 20mm ?

[lutonlagerlout]

yeah moonstone is fine albeit pricey
moonstone link
cheers LLL

[easyrider]

yeah moonstone is fine albeit pricey
moonstone link
cheers LLL

Could I buy some say crushed concrete, whacker it to bring the level up and fill with moonstone to save on quantity?

[nry]

Based on our neighbours very thin layer of gravel on their drive, if it isn't deep enough it'll constantly push away and you'll see the base layer...or mud in their case.

[Tony McC]

Gravel and motorbikes don't mix.

There's the obvious skid risk, but also you get individual stones thrown up to damage paintwork, you need a puck for the side-stand and the relatively narrow track of 'bike tyres causes rutting.

It may seem hard tyo justify the additional cost of blacktop or concrete, but you only need to drop the 'bike once to realise gravel was a false economy

[easyrider]

There are 3 cars in the house hold...I only ride in summer My fear with Tarmac is it would look to much like a road and people will mistakenly drive down it!

Looking at the size of the drive would RBG be into the thousands?

[Dave_L]

Yes - thousands!

[easyrider]

I have emailed sureset with a link to this thread asking for some more details.

[Dave_L]

You'll need an AC14 bitmac base for the resin to be applied onto; have you an idea of area? I could give you an approximate costing.

[lutonlagerlout]

£££
LLL

[Dave_L]

£££
LLL

I'd say ££,£££ looking at the area!

[easyrider]

You'll need an AC14 bitmac base for the resin to be applied onto; have you an idea of area? I could give you an approximate costing.

The drive is 100m long and 3.35m wide with a parking bit at the bottom.

The bit at the bottom is around 10m x 5m