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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:55 pm
by john_o
On the outer side of my garden boundary wall, there is a strip of earth (13.5m long x 0.5m wide) between the wall and the adjacent public pavement. The local felines regard this as the Taj Mahal of cat loos and I am for ever having to clear up. I want to dig out a shallow trench and fill it with gravel to deter the offending moggies. What will be a suitable liner below the gravel, please. I doubt if anyone will bother if I put gravel down, every other property in sight has done something similar over the past few years and, being the last, I'm getting the full brunt of offensive smells etc.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:38 pm
by Tony McC
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:26 pm
by john_o
Hang about. I started from that site but understood it to play down the relevance of permeable landscape fabrics; hence my posting. I'm still not at all certain whether the site is, or is not, recommending them for my sort of project but, on balance, I think it is. I don't need much though; can I buy them by the metre?
I do plan to check at my local garden centre next week but I was hoping to be forearmed with advice from here. Left to myself, I would probably just dig a shallow trench, lay perforated polythene sheeting in it and tip the gravel on top. I'm pretty sure that this would not be a particularly good idea but I don't fully understand the implications.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:37 pm
by seanandruby
you will need a good quality fabric like terran. slit poleythene wont let the water pass through fast enough and will flood your strip.
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:04 pm
by msh paving
i have cleared loads off gravel area's covered with polyethene ,big no no all its does is make a wet mess,
You need as seanandruby say's TERRAM or some form off geotextile even if you use a weed barrier that the diy sheds sell, garden centres sell small rolls of the weed barrier in 1m wide rolls cut the roll in half you got your 500mm strip roll is out spread the stone on top jobs a good un MSH 
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:31 am
by Tony McC
That site, as you refer to it, is the parent site for this forum, and the page to which I referred you clearly shows a separation membrane used for garden construction projects.
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:49 am
by john_o
Tony McC wrote:That site, as you refer to it, is the parent site for this forum, and the page to which I referred you clearly shows a separation membrane used for garden construction projects.
Sorry if I caused offence; I didn't mean to. I think I have the information I want now, courtesy seanandruby and msh paving. I think these forums are a goldmine for numpty garden DIYers like myself. I'm very grateful I was directed to them from a distant isp forum.