Driveways - CAUTION! May contain motorcycle related content

steve robinson escribió:

It's actually more often than not, a thin layer of a very weak mortar mix.
Usually can be scraped off easily. Especially when wet.

 

I think you might be confusing 'screed' with self-levelling mix.

 

No its not , its usally about 60mm thick , you thinking of self
levelling compound

 

where's Petrolcan when you need him? He's bound to have been "doing a
job round the corner and has some tarmac left over, so he does".

 

A typical thread on UKRM.

 

Depend dunnit. If you want to look like an utter **** with too much money
and no fucking sense then you put down decking. If you want to show how
much sheer class you have at a sensible cost and thus impress burds of all
sorts then you use secondhand brick.

Either way it is not the finish what counts but the bits of minced and
scraped motorway underneath it what makes the job a good un regardless of
what you put on the top.

I have a 2 foot (at it's shallowest) layer of rammed hard core capped with
preloved brick for the important bits where I park my toolbox and stuff
and the rest is just the hard core rammed a bit more and dressed with dirt
and brick dust. Excellent drainage, even for spilt motor oil, firm
surface that will, in places, take a side stand an huge amounts of
maintenance spraying it with weedkiller 3 times a year. and I have a
couple of small colonies of daffs that meander slowly around it as well.

 

Don't the bricks get slick when wet?

 

Last month I almost bought a Yaris off a chap who had just about finished
building a new house: his version of temporary drive surfacing was
apparently made of ground up incinerator ash. It certainly had all sorts
of odd junk floating around on top of it although he claimed he'd never
got a puncture.

 

We don't do wet here in Sunny Essex but on the rare occasions we get a
small shower or two in the spring then not that I had noticed. The real
trick seems to be to keep nature from reasserting itself between the
cracks, moss in the damp dark places especially.

 

Block paving but don't have it coated with the shite that's meant to
keep the weeds off because it makes it slippery and you're bike will end
up resting against your garage door if you leave it out in the rain.

 

I'd go with block paving every time. Perhaps set on a bed of resin fixed
sand (given the slope). It's easy to maintain and repair localised
spills/cracks/subsidence ( and without it looking like a patchwork quilt)

 

Krusty escribió:

Normally referred to as screed though. Bloody experts.

 

Latex

 

Good quality concrete, not that shit that some cowboy put down on yours.
Coincidentally, my neighbour was pointing out the area of concrete in
his yard that was mixed with inferior aggregate - the surface is all
breaking up after the last round of winter temps, while other, older
areas are fine.

 

But that's not important, right now.

 

To be fair, it has lasted 45 years

 

Driveway paint?

Restored our oil stained tarmac to a very good standard last year.

Needs re-doing after a few maintenance disasters, though.

 

No

 

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