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Driveway construction

  • 11-04-2017 7:52pm
    #1
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭


    Hi all I'm currently making a driveway into a house and a street around it. What is the recommend build up of stone. It will be tarred. Is there any spec available online, didn't find much with google. Thanks.


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  • #2
    sydthebeat
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    Street??


  • #3
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Dupont


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Street??

    Well what I'd call a street. A driveway from the road into the house and around the house of you know what I mean. Like an apron all around the house coming out around 7meters


  • #4
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Dupont wrote: »
    Well what I'd call a street. A driveway from the road into the house and around the house of you know what I mean. Like an apron all around the house coming out around 7meters

    thats my single biggest pet hate with irish country houses.

    why in gods name do you need to drive all the way around the house?

    you end up:
    1. making the house subservient to a car
    2. having the house look like its in an island of tar / gravel etc
    3. you loose any connection between your patio area and a green area ie the outside and inside spaces.
    4. your landscaping is compromised and your house is more obtrusive from the road.

    https://ibb.co/dSkX5k

    this link gives you an idea of whats good and bad.


  • #5
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Dupont


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    thats my single biggest pet hate with irish country houses.

    why in gods name do you need to drive all the way around the house?

    you end up:
    1. making the house subservient to a car
    2. having the house look like its in an island of tar / gravel etc
    3. you loose any connection between your patio area and a green area ie the outside and inside spaces.
    4. your landscaping is compromised and your house is more obtrusive from the road.

    https://ibb.co/dSkX5k

    this link gives you an idea of whats good and bad.

    Yeah I agree but it's not my house. Only doing the job. I would prefer if it was just the front and one side. Still gives plenty room for reversing even if you've a trailer on.


  • #6
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Dupont wrote: »
    Hi all I'm currently making a driveway into a house and a street around it. What is the recommend build up of stone. It will be tarred. Is there any spec available online, didn't find much with google. Thanks.
    Dupont wrote: »
    Yeah I agree but it's not my house. Only doing the job. I would prefer if it was just the front and one side. Still gives plenty room for reversing even if you've a trailer on.

    You getting paid to do this job?


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  • #7
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Dupont


    BryanF wrote: »
    You getting paid to do this job?

    Yeah. Mates rates ........


  • #8
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,349 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Dupont wrote: »
    Yeah. Mates rates ........

    What has your Engineer specified in the build up to take the constant load from cars driving on it, and stationary over the course of its life time?


  • #9
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Dupont


    kceire wrote: »
    What has your Engineer specified in the build up to take the constant load from cars driving on it, and stationary over the course of its life time?

    I was just asking what was recommended. Just to get a heads up before he would draw up a detail. After inspecting ground conditions of course.


  • #10
    macadam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭macadam


    You must have a solid subsoil to build a strong aggregate base.

    A common problem is subsoilthat is not properly stabilized. When there is wet, soggy clay present, you need to remove it or put down a good stone base so it all depends on the sub soil.
    Ive seen driveways with 100mm of stone sub base or less and they would be rock solid Ive also seen driveways with 450mm of sub base and they still sponge..
    You will know what its like when you strip to the sub soil.


  • #11
    Bishopsback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Bishopsback


    Dupont wrote: »
    Well what I'd call a street. A driveway from the road into the house and around the house of you know what I mean. Like an apron all around the house coming out around 7meters

    Its talking to someone with experience in this type of work you need to be doing, on site live as the job is being done.
    You are taking on a major and expensive job and if you don't know what you are doing you need either an engineer inspecting this when ongoing or at least a capable and experienced technician.
    You say in another post its mates rates, if its a mate you're working for do the real matey thing, get experienced help, otherwise you could cost your mate a fortune and still end up with a ****ty job.
    The cost of having to re-do this type of work if its wrong would be colossal.


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