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?

AWEM

Andrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

I remember quite some years ago admiring someone's path and drive that
had some sort of bonded pea shingle. He said it was shortly to be
replaced with something else because it was like an ice rink when wet.
Hopefully the resin you refer to is not so slippery or will not reach
the upper surface of the shingle.

In article ,
"Andrew Mawson" writes:
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?

That sounds like a description of the pavements they relaid all
around us. They look like tarmac, but they weren't. They were
laid cold and then set, with no tarmac smell or heating at all.
They look excellent, but that maybe more down to the quality of
the workmanship, which quite impressed me, sufficiently to tell
the workmen doing it at the time.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:19:26 +0000, Invisible Man
wrote:

Andrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

I remember quite some years ago admiring someone's path and drive that
had some sort of bonded pea shingle. He said it was shortly to be
replaced with something else because it was like an ice rink when wet.
Hopefully the resin you refer to is not so slippery or will not reach
the upper surface of the shingle.

But might it be that the path was slippery,not because of the resin
,but because the pea shingle was " fixed" whereas if it was loose then
it would "give" as you walked on it and you wouldn't slip.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:33:27 -0000, Andrew Mawson wrote:

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?

My next door neighbour has it, it's been down now about 13-14 years, the
age of their house.

They don't ever seem to have any undue problems with it, except that there
are quite distinct wear marks from vehicle tyres. The surface is virtually
bald in places.

--
The Wanderer

Inertia keeps me going!

"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message
...
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.

Colin Bignell

WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid which
can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

http://www2.dupont.com/Plantex_Pro/e...rid/index.html

Rob Horton wrote:
WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid which
can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom

http://www2.dupont.com/Plantex_Pro/e...rid/index.html

Stuart Noble wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:
WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid which
can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom


Nice legs.

On Jan 9, 9:12*am, "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname here.me.uk
wrote:
Pea gravel is always a mistake. I went for 20mm chippings and have very
little problem with it wandering.

Cats also think pea gravel is a suitable toilet. Resin bonded pea
gravel may confuse them somewhat!

Dave.

On 9 Jan, 09:34, Rob Horton wrote:

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid which
can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

http://www2.dupont.com/Plantex_Pro/e...rid/index.html

Or this one: http://www.gridforce.co.uk/build-a-gravel-driveway/ which
I'm going to use to re-lay my gravel driveway as soon as the weather
warms up a bit.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:15:24 +0000, Bruce wrote:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom

Nice legs.

Can't see the face.

"nightjar .me.uk" cpb@insert my surname here wrote in message
...

"Andrew Mawson" wrote in
message
...
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.

Colin Bignell



Colin, I agree 10mm pea is not the best - but we inherited a large
proportion of an acre of it here when we moved in, and replacement
isn't really an option !

AWEM

"Andrew Mawson" wrote in message
...
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.


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

Bruce wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:
WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid
which can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom


Nice legs.

Looks like an old bike to me.


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

"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

Bruce wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:
http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom

Nice legs.

Looks like an old bike to me.


I won't make the obvious reply ... ;-)

In message , The Medway
Handyman writes
Bruce wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:
WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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?

AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid
which can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom


Nice legs.

Looks like an old bike to me.

Would you wear shoes like that to ride any bike?

regards



--
Tim Lamb

Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , The
Medway Handyman writes
Bruce wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:
WAndrew Mawson wrote:
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? AWEM

How about considering something different such as a honeycomb grid
which can be used to stabilize the gravel. Here are a few links:

http://www.nidagravel.co.uk/

Nice bottom


Nice legs.

Looks like an old bike to me.

Would you wear shoes like that to ride any bike?

Notice the subtle difference in the before and after shoots? Bl^^dy
marketing guys!

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:33:27 -0000, "Andrew Mawson"
wrote:

Has anyone experiance of resin bonded gravel drives.

http://www.pavingexpert.com/resin.htm
http://www.pavingexpert.com/resin02.htm

"pcb1962" wrote

Or this one: http://www.gridforce.co.uk/build-a-gravel-driveway/ which
I'm going to use to re-lay my gravel driveway as soon as the weather
warms up a bit.

Hmmm, tempting. That looks like good stuff and a cheap way to get your
driveway redone and to current regs too