Resin Bonded Driveway

zxr_

Hi Folks,

This is my first post.:D

I am thinking about putting down a resin bonded gravel driveway over an existing concrete slab. The process seems pretty straightforward according to variuos UK sites. Some even sell DIY kits for this but importing from the UK would be expensive. Does anyone out there know where I might be able to get the resin locally to do this? Are there any knowledgeable suppliers out there? I am sure I can pick up the gravel nearly anywhere.
Thanks in advance.

zxr_

?Cee?view

I was going to post to ask about something similar.

I came across this crowd who sent me a sample and details of a stockist and installer in NI

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I never followed up because they seemed to be slow to give guide prices. The usual, we'd need to see the site first line. I would have thought an indicative price per square metre should have been possible.

If you find out anything, would you let us know here?

Thanks.

zxr_

Thanks Churchview, I certainly will. Might just search the goldenpages for Chemical suppliers or glue suppliers or something. Never know, the old fashioned way often works out..:)

Do-more

Went googling to see what this stuff is like and found a crowd in Tullamore doing them...
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Opps kanga got there first!

zxr_

Thanks folks, I have seen the website but never enquired, I assumed it would be very expensive but E35 /sqm sounds very reasonable. I would be very interested to know how it goes for you, maybe even a picture or 2 would be nice..
Thanks again,
Graham.

bertie1

I used a cork company ****************** to inside resin flooring & their website does outside resin as well , apartantly he is back from Austrailia where it is all the go around swimming pools

bertie1

I would like to state that I have no connection what so ever with the company mentioned above only that I used them to do resin flooring in my own house. While I was researching their work as I had not used them before, I saw a number of completed jobs done by them , which were both inside which was what I was looking for & outside.
zxr did not state what part of the country he was in.

k123456

Saw the product at Bloom, although if you dragged your foot a bit, the gravel worked loose v easily

Graaaaa

Hello,
The only company I’ve had dealings with are UK based so I think you’ve already got the contacts you need.
Do you mind me asking where you are located and if you have thought about the drainage details to your driveway?
The reason I ask is to do with a pet issue of mine: sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) which the councils are supposed to be enforcing for new development but don’t seem to bother with domestic planning.
I’m based in north Dublin suburbs and was affected by the major storm last year. I look around at all the neighbours who had their front and back gardens fully concreted and wonder if they know they’ve added to the flooding problems, just to avoid their property needing a clean or weeding every now and then. When rain falls on grass, it soaks in over a short time period. When rain falls on concrete, it stays, floods, or rushes off onto the road or into a gully/drain etc. and then rushes off in pipework to the main drain under the road. The drains were designed for the areas of the house roofs in suburbs and for the road surface, not for all the gardens to be impermeable too.
Resin bonded surfaces are not permeable, but they can be laid with falls into the verges so that the water stays on your property, or a channel drain can be constructed at your entrance, piped to a small water attenuation tank with an undersized pipe connecting to the public stormwater sewer. Thus in the event of a major storm, you won’t be contributing to the flood on your road or community.
I’ve only come across one case where the planners conditioned a permeable driveway to a property, and to be honest I don’t think the planner had the first clue what this meant or to what purpose it was supposed to serve. Of course there are no legislative ways to regulate what people do with existing gardens, and I doubt the local authorities would ever have the resources or backbone to open that can of worms.
If this is of interest to you, I can point you to a few products for attenuating that are out there. You would think all these landscaping contractors would have developed a bit of knowledge on the subject of drainage, but when I got quotes recently for paving and gravelling the front garden, the **** that they came out with made me realise that the days are not over of two chancers travelling the country with a tar machine leaving a trail of weed ridden driveways in their wake.

Graaaaa

Well fair enough, if your drive was already concrete and drained by a gully then your not adding any more surface water to the drainage system. There are few of us in the country at the moment with deep enough pockets to go bells and whistles for the sake of it.
I would recommend that you ensure the gullypot has a sufficient trap depth below the outlet pipe to catch solids etc. and prevent your outflow pipe getting blocked up, 300mm would be sufficient. Also easier to rod later if you get a decent size one. The little domestic pots at the end of rainwater pipes would not be appropriate.
Also make sure the cover is rated for at least B125 loading (car parks) to make sure it is not crushed if you ever have a delivery truck coming.

Graaaaa

LOL, that's what I get for trying to be helpful to a fellow northsider!
Just make sure he doesn't put a useless plastic cover on the gully is all.

Concrete might be slightly cheaper for the material, and less chance of being laid badly (lots of dodgy driveway tarmac contractors out there). Both are equally durable if laid correctly, with concrete having the edge if laid thick enough (60mm as an absolute minimum over the highpoints in your existing surface).

SKIETWO

Hi Bertie1. Sorry now this is my first time using boards.ie. I wonder can you tell me who you used to do the resin bonded flooring for You?

bertie1

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hexosan

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horse7

How much did it all cost,and can you powerhose
the drive, I have concrete imprint and I have it,it's very hard to keep clean,and each groove in the imprint seems to hold the dirt.