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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:00 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:39 pm
by 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
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:34 pm
by 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,
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:57 pm
by 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 
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:31 pm
by 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
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:01 pm
by 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. 
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:43 pm
by Dave_L
Troubled of Bucks wrote: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!!
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:42 pm
by 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