White cobbles on driveway

Cyrus wrote: »

Is there a management co ? You’ll know if you are paying management fees

Gumbo wrote: »

All the hassle you went through when buying this house (remember your previous thread?), and how you wanted it, now you are willing to completely destroy why you have the hard standing walkway (Part M of Building Regulations), so its a "I'm alright Jack" attitude in my opinion.

If I was a neighbour, id be dumping the stones at your front door, not neatly back onto your driveway. Its not just a 2 minute brush every now and again, the stones will be littered the full length of your road, not just outside yours!

I've seen it happen so many times and most end up being ripped up a year later.

Gumbo wrote: »

Making your house non compliant with the BCAR process you heavily replied on when buying.

awec wrote: »

You want your driveway to look something like that?

It's horrendous, and very cheap looking IMO.

TheBoyConor wrote: »

you thought it was a nice idea because you don't live there!!! And you don't have to deal with the disaster that it would be.

a) My first thought is that it would look like a grave. Who knows, perhaps the builders did bury a few bodies under the driveway.:D

b) Gumbo also rightly points oot the possible Part M contravention, if you do not leave a sufficiently wide solid access to allow people with disabilities to use it.

c) Round pebbles like that will not bed in at all. The wheels and your feet will sink into them and they will be constantly moving and shifting about. They will end up out all over the road and footpaths. Children will use them as missiles to throw at windows and anything that moves. Stones on the road will be kicked up possibly chipping cars and hitting people. Forget about brushing them back into the driveway. Are you really going to go out twice a week in the dead of cold rainy winter when u are exhausted after a days work and with kids screaming at you to brush a few pebbles off of the road? Be realistic, it won't be a priority.

d) besides the above, you'd break you neck walking on 40mm pebbles going to and from the house. If a visitor or the postman falls on it you'll be getting sued.

e) even if you keep them in the drive, the stones will slowly break down from all the wheels and movement. You'd end up with a dusty mix of pebbles and grit after a while.

f) as well as being out on the road they pebbles and fragments and dust will come into the house on your feet.

g) after a year or two half of the stone will just be gone, lost to the road.

h) the cobble lock paving is perfectly fine, good condition, looks decent, and is safe to walk and drive on and is pretty much *maintenance free. (*maintenance free provided that you are not one of these nobs with too much free time that is constantly out power washing and hosing and treating and spraying generally scratching around at their driveway like an aul hen). You are going to tear that up to put down a maintenance heavy, arguably dangerous and troublesome surface that will be a constant headache. Think about that.

I) if you are contravening the Part M then you will make the house non-compliant and it will harm the saleability and value of the house. The neighbours and the residents association will have a bone to pick with you. Also, the planning consent may stipulate that finishes must be of a specified type. Changing might breach the planning consent, again, hampering saleability and value.

My sister built a house and she wanted pea gravel all around it. I warned her about the difficulties of loose covering layers would pose and that an 804 yard would be most durable and still looks fine. if she had to have it I said chippings on an 804 base would bed down better. She went ahead and got the pea gravel. A DISASTER. Too thick for starters and as I predicted, car wheels would plough furrows through it. Constantly moving and shifting. The main wheel track areas were shortly down to bare 804 with big ridges of gravel at either side. I also heard the "oh sure we can relevel it the odd time". lol, stuff hasn't been touched since the day it was tipped down. Again, kids and all their chaos are the priority now, not stones in the yard.

I literally could not think of a worse, more brain dead idea for a drive way as this. Trust me - my sisters folly with it was a train wreck. Op, do not do this, You will regret it if you do. I assure you you will.