The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:06 pm**

What's the opinion on using site rubble in place of MOT base stone? recently saw a guy tweeting a pic of his base ready for laying with a load of roughly broken brick, stone etc and he passes himself of as a 'Paving Consultant' The only place for that crap is in the skip...the base stone that is....although... :-/

For me I would only use this if its been though a crusher, is a hard material and crushes with a good size range through to dust. The few times I've used crushers I could have done with crushing with a big opening, then screening and crush again to final size ...if I had a screen.
Crushing
Base stone
I find crushing to final size in one pass is slow and produces to much fines

Edited By Thehandmadegarden on 1353326860

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:48 pm**

on certain sites crushing is great
TBH most patios are fine with broken bricks as long as they are well compacted
the most important thing IMHO is no voids
LLL

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:22 pm**

did that company pass on the operators licence for a days use on that machine? if they didn't they have operated illegally!
The smaller crushers are exempt however.

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:41 pm**

I still like brick hardcore laid neartly and bashed up with the sledge, key as always is geotextile and a finer grade on top like crushed or mot. In my mind thats a hard to beat combination as a base. The same system has been used since roman times of larger grades down to smaller for best results

Posted: **Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:14 pm**

If it's broken up and then mixed with a finer material to fill voids, it can be OK for lightweight pavements such as drives and patios.

I don't like full bricks laid side-by-side: no interlock of angular 'particles' and too prone to minor movement of a single piece resulting in suignificant distortion or displacement of overlying layers.

The Brew Cabin

Suitable base - Using site rubble