Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:39 pm
Why is decorative stone 3 times the cost of gravel, is there any benifits to having stone apart from colour. is it all sort of a gravel. do they dye it or is it natural iam getting the red stone.
I can't see your 'gravel' or 'deco agg' from here, but the main cost of any aggregate is the haulage.
Gravel, when sold as such, tends to come from a local source and is of variable quality. The gravel that comes from the pit in my village is a nice golden-buff rounded river gravel, but for my mate Jill, who lives on the edge of the Peak District, her local 'gravel' is an angular limestone chipping.
Deco Aggs may have travelled hundreds of miles, and are usually quarried, rather than simply dug out with a drag-line, and that's why they are costly. The Spanish White comes from...well, it's obvious, innit!
There's no hard and fast rule stating that a Deco Agg is always better than a local gravel. You have to decide what it is you want and whether you think it's worth the price being asked.