Gravel grid driveway installation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2021
- In this video we show how a gravel grid system can be used to create a gravel driveway which can take the load of a vehicle without the gravel moving which saves raking of gravel where on a normal gravel driveway you would create tracks. There is no movement of the gravel when moving over it or even when turning. We used the 'ECODEC 500' square grids in this video and filled them with 10mm golden flint gravel. We would definitely recommend this method when having a gravel installed.
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Hi Sam cracking job, really important the Grano dust to finish getting it beautiful and flat, love the Ifor trailers great bit of kit.
Grid system works really well have a awesome week all the best Tony 👍
Cheers Tony, appreciate you watching the video. Hope works going well for you, catch you soon!
Just about to do mine, thanks for posting and tip on the lugs.
No problem and glad the video helped. Good luck with your project!
That's some nice flat gravel. First time I've seen that stuff being installed on TH-cam. Never heard of a "spazzle"! Now I want one
Once you’ve got a spazzle there’s no going back 🤣! Great for levelling gravel, soil and even tamping concrete footings
Great job with our grids!
Getting the base flat and level makes the rest of the job a doddle. Your clients are going to be chuffed with this for many years to come!
Thanks, we were very pleased with the product right from ordering to installation! Would definitely use it again and will recommend to future clients
Is it possible to do this on a slanted driveway? Will the grids hold the gravel even though its at an angle
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Well said! They mean no more raking on your gravel driveway and provide a stable area!
What made you choose this system over others? I've read some reviews where these systems start buckling when the sun shines on it and the grid starts to rise up a little and once that happens there's no way to get it back down.
Beautiful job, would laying weed barrier under the geocells be ok?
Yes I can’t see an issue with that
Good job. Question, for the sub base and car traffic is your recomendation at the start for the sub base enough to cover the weight of a car e.g will it sink over time? Would a concrete base (although maybe more expensive) be better? Thanks 👍
There would be no need to put a concrete base in. It all depends on your ground conditions too so in some instances you may need more sub base. As long as the sub base is compacted in layers and if it’s a new driveway then even put a vibrating roller over the new sub base and it won’t go anywhere.
Ensure you have a membrane under the sub base to stop any soil mixing with the stone over time too
@@SamDaviesBuilder Thank you for taking the time to reply. Appreciate it 👍
Hi great video and thanks for sharing your knowledge. Do you know what volume of stone go into a square meter or how many square meters would a tonne cover
Thank you
Thanks John. I can’t remember what a tonne covered but I know the sheet that came with the grids had the information on it. Sorry I can’t be more help with a figure
29mm deep stabiliser + 2stones(just to hide) covering with 8-12mm gravel on 320m2 takes 23tones of granite gravel, it's mine knowledge.
Hi lads looks good I’m thinking of doing this in my front drive just wondering how do you get how many tonnes you need when I got a sq meters measurement
Hi, thank you. I would use a calculator such as this to work it out www.mainlandaggregates.co.uk/gravel-calculator?gclid=CjwKCAjw6vyiBhB_EiwAQJRopn0kRCW7ai-C3XOOvhYWo4VoJRqVUU5Ppj71QUzK2J3v0FNMV9lkqxoCiZwQAvD_BwE
@@SamDaviesBuilder thank you very much I appreciate your time cheers
@@montdino9775 no problem at all. Make sure you enter my competition, details are on my latest video. And easy £50 for someone!
A neighbor of mine installed a grid system and had crushed gravel used to fill/cover it and now he has weeds growing through it that can't be pulled. He is constantly using spray products to try and make it look better.
I get the odd weed but nothing major and just spray it twice a year. Has he got a weed control membrane beneath the grids?
Are these good for keeping water out? We have had a new build and I wanted channels but our landscaper wants to gravel grid the sides of the house? A lot of water floods and he stated that this will stop the water sitting etc., I love channels but he states this is more effective
These don’t keep water out. They will let water through them (permeable) providing the ground beneath is free draining. I’d say you’d have to put some sort of drain in if it floods, if you used these you could put a land drain pipe below?
What would you recommend on a solid concrete base (which cant be removed) - Can the membrane go straight on top? (For garden furniture area not driveway) Thanks!
I’d say you can just put these straight on the concrete. And if you’re straight on concrete, I wouldn’t worry about a membrane.
Hi nice job. Can you confirm how deep you dug out.
Hi, thanks. It was a new build so was already dug. If this was a new job I’d want to put in 100-150mm of sub base (mot type 1), then use something finer just to get it nice and flat so 25-50mm of 20mm to dust. So including the grid thickness you’d be somewhere between 170mm to 240mm to dig out. This all depends on your ground too, if you already had hardcore down you wouldn’t need so much thickness of new hardcore to go in
Surely your not supposed to see the grid it doesn’t look good and would put me off having it
You can leave the grid exposed or cover with gravel. Also there is different colour grids so you could get something close to the colour of your gravel
Just cover it with 2 stones layer, enough to hide, but still not moving when rotating wheels standing still.
What about rain does it hold the water
Would this be a better solution for drainage problems caused by surface water laying on top of gravel?
I don’t think it would help with drainage. Only way to stop water sitting on the gravel is to use a permeable base underneath or slope it all so the water can run off
How well is it handling weeds after the install?
Not bad, probably about the same as a driveway without the grids really. I just have to spray the odd bit with weed killer but most of what I drive over the weeds don’t come through
How does this compare cost wise to block paving, as the sub-base is pretty much identical, does the grid and the shingle cost as much as blocks ? Was this something you priced and compared.
I would say its definitely cheaper than block paving as there is much less labour (grids go down far quicker than paving blocks) and also no need to think about drainage as you would with block paving (as long as you're not on really wet ground). I didn't compare this job to block paving as it would have been too difficult to get falls etc with the paving to get the water away in this scenario.
Could monoblock be removed and this system be put down wothout changing the base under the monoblock
If it was laid on stone dust then yes but if the mono block was laid on sand I’d say no. You’d have to take the sand up and replace it with stone. The sand would be too affected by water
How does this system cope with a slope towards the house? Will it retain the gravel or will it start to make its way downwards?
What sort of slope are you talking? It would contain stone on a slope as long as it’s not really steep
Difficult to say.... A moderate slope maybe! If the car handbrake was released it would fall back on its own. Really like the idea of a porous drive - could you recommend anything different?
@@dj9048 you’d ideally need to find another gravel grid driveway of a similar slope to see if it works but I’d say you could go pretty steep!
Another option for a permeable driveway is block paving as you can get a permeable version of that and it works well when it’s done right
What max weight of vehicle will such grid support?
Can’t remember but it was more than a car! There’s loads of different specs on these grids and price differs accordingly
how is it now?
how do you keep weeds from growing?
Still good and it is pretty good for lack of weeds. You have to use weedkiller or pick out the weeds the same as any other gravel driveway though. A lot of it is driven on so that keeps the weeds down a lot but anywhere they spring up I just give them a spray every few months.
What is the sub base ? Thx
Hi, it’s crushed stone as a base layer which gets compacted
how much would something like this cost?
Sorry, I can’t remember the cost! But the grids you can get for £8-£10 per m2
Overcomplicating a very simple job, just chuck some membrane over the soil and dump your gravel on it. Yes it will sink in places then get another ton bag 6mts later and launch it on.
I’m not sure if this is a joke post but if you did what you said you certainly couldn’t drive over it. You could get away with what you’re saying if it was somewhere you’d only walk on but it would still be terrible. Plus anywhere that sinks you can’t keep topping up with gravel or over time you’d have some stupidly deep gravel!
@@SamDaviesBuilder I did this on my drive where I park 3 cars and yes after about 6mts it needed a top up where the wheels typically go but after that it's been OK and hardly sunk. I can understand when you do it professionally and have to be accountable then yes you have to do everything to ensure it is solid but my basic way has worked very well for a domestic situation
Interesting, you may have got lucky in that your ground is pretty hard to begin with as soil especially when its wet would sink and move like crazy with cars driving over it. But if it works for you and it saved a few £££ then that's good!
What made you choose this system over others? I've read some reviews where these systems start buckling when the sun shines on it and the grid starts to rise up a little and once that happens there's no way to get it back down.
It came down to budget, these grids were the cheapest I could find. I’ve not experienced any buckling and we had some pretty hot days last summer! They’ve been great so far and I’ve not had to rake any gravel. Only regret I have is I used 6mm gravel and I’d go for a 10mm next time
Yes dude, mine came with suggestions 8-12mm gravel. And textile was on it hot pressed. No chance to rise up. As well mine was done like that: wall of the grid in bottom wider then on top twice, gravel holds it from rising.