I am in the process of building a budget driveway - we're having an extension on the front built later in the year which will affect the driveway, so as I said, this is temporary, being forced by the purchase of an EV and the council saying I cant charge it across the pavement. The driveway will be the whole front garden, and is for parking one van, one car and a setting down point for the builders.
The pavement is about a foot higher than what was the lawn. I'm going to create a gradient on the driveway. I've knocked down the front wall, laid down heavy landscape fabric, and using the bricks arranged flat to make up some ground to pad it out a bit. I plan to use road planings as the top surface - this wont create white dust everywhere. Unless there's a reason I shouldn't use this? But what should I use to make up the slope and sub surface? I was thinking fine crushed brick (6f2?) to make up the volume, run over it with a plate compactor. Then a layer of landscape fabric, then the road planings - again, compacted down.
My plan is in future the planings can be removed, then a permanent surface put down.
The drive dimensions are approx 6700 x 7700mm, and I've got between 100-200mm of height to make up at various points across the driveway. What sorts of quantities should I be looking at? There's a company nearby who delivers loose recycled aggregates between 5 and 11 tonnes.
I have a contractor lined up to drop the kerb (council approved). Rotherham council wanted around £3000, contractor wants £1280.
The pavement is about a foot higher than what was the lawn. I'm going to create a gradient on the driveway. I've knocked down the front wall, laid down heavy landscape fabric, and using the bricks arranged flat to make up some ground to pad it out a bit. I plan to use road planings as the top surface - this wont create white dust everywhere. Unless there's a reason I shouldn't use this? But what should I use to make up the slope and sub surface? I was thinking fine crushed brick (6f2?) to make up the volume, run over it with a plate compactor. Then a layer of landscape fabric, then the road planings - again, compacted down.
My plan is in future the planings can be removed, then a permanent surface put down.
The drive dimensions are approx 6700 x 7700mm, and I've got between 100-200mm of height to make up at various points across the driveway. What sorts of quantities should I be looking at? There's a company nearby who delivers loose recycled aggregates between 5 and 11 tonnes.
I have a contractor lined up to drop the kerb (council approved). Rotherham council wanted around £3000, contractor wants £1280.
