"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message
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Has anyone experiance of resin bonded gravel drives. This year I'll
be laying a driveway to the house, and although the base will be mass
concrete want a better top surface. We have extensive pea beach
elsewhere, but it gets everywhere - sticks in shoes and ends up in
the house, so wondered if resin bonded shingle would be the way to
go. Is it possible to DIY or how's it done?

Pea gravel is always a mistake. I went for 20mm chippings and have
very little problem with it wandering. The larger size means it does
not get picked up in shoes or tyres and chippings have sharp edges,
so tend to lock themselves in place better than rounded gravel. I
have seen bonded gravel surfacing in catalogues, but the prices were
horrendous.

I agree about pea gravel. I have 20mm gravel on my drive/front garden & its
a great surface. The drive has 2 tonnes of compacted type 1 under it and
doesn't move about at all.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk