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Default General advice sought on gravelling a garden


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1) dig out existing topsoil down six inches or so


If that is all gravel, it will be difficult to walk on. Lay a couple of
inches of well-compacted MOT sub-base and a couple of inches of gravel on
top of that.

1a) remove large volume of topsoil from site

2) lay impermeable plastic layer to kill weeds


As others have pointed out, semi-permeable membrane is the right stuff.

3) get gravel delivered from local builders yard
4) haul gravel up onto garden (it's about 2 feet above ground level, so
I think this necessitates a 'barrow and has to be done by hand) and
spread it out with a rake.


The driver should be able to dump the bag on your new gravel area.

The garden is quite small -- about 12ftx8ft, or thereabouts. The guy in
the local builder's yard reckoned a half-ton of chippings, quite chunky
ones (10-15mm or so, by eye). Does the amount seem about right to
everyone?


Doesn't sound enough to me. It took six tonnes to do a 3m radius circle and
some paths in my house to 50mm deep. It is also worth specifying 20mm grid
chippings. They are far less attractive to cats as a litter tray than
smaller sizes.

Colin Bignell