Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:22 pm
Currently my drive is a lovely concrete piece of design. I really need to get another area of off street parking down as soon as possible. Ideally the whole lot would come up and be block paved and that is the long term plan but for the moment all I want to do it pave off an area of grass.
Currently it looks like this:
The current drive is 7.6m x 2.5m and the area of grass that we were thinking of paving is 2.7m x 6.7m. This would leave a strip of grass / boarder around 1.4m wide to the left of the picture.
The land slopes quite steeply to the right and away from the house.
I have a few questions:
1. Would it be advisable to add some form of drainage to the new area?
2. Is 5.2m considered wide enough for a double drive and be able to walk up between the cars? It seems to be ok but I wondered if there was a rule of thumb measurement thats normally adhered to?
3. Would something like tombermore tegular look out of place against the "LBC tudor" brickwork of the walls of the house? Which is something like this:
Or would I be better off sticking to something like driveline 50 brindle with a charcoal boarder? I realise its my choice at the end of the day but a bit of advice is always handy.
4. The reason for not ripping up the concrete drive is that some time next year it will have skips on it and holes dug it in by the gas people. Whats the chance of being able to get blocks to match the area that I'm doing now next year? Or am I better off doing a buy for blocks for the whole area now?
Currently it looks like this:
The current drive is 7.6m x 2.5m and the area of grass that we were thinking of paving is 2.7m x 6.7m. This would leave a strip of grass / boarder around 1.4m wide to the left of the picture.
The land slopes quite steeply to the right and away from the house.
I have a few questions:
1. Would it be advisable to add some form of drainage to the new area?
2. Is 5.2m considered wide enough for a double drive and be able to walk up between the cars? It seems to be ok but I wondered if there was a rule of thumb measurement thats normally adhered to?
3. Would something like tombermore tegular look out of place against the "LBC tudor" brickwork of the walls of the house? Which is something like this:
Or would I be better off sticking to something like driveline 50 brindle with a charcoal boarder? I realise its my choice at the end of the day but a bit of advice is always handy.
4. The reason for not ripping up the concrete drive is that some time next year it will have skips on it and holes dug it in by the gas people. Whats the chance of being able to get blocks to match the area that I'm doing now next year? Or am I better off doing a buy for blocks for the whole area now?