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What to put at end of driveway?
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sunnysurrey_2
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Morning everyone :j
I was hoping someone can advise what the best thing would be to put at the end of our driveway it slopes down gradually away from the house & is gravelled which means we then have spillage onto the pavement & which has to be continually swept back.
I'm at a loss as to know what material/style/idea to use that's durable enough. The barrier wouldn't need to be particularly deep -10-15cm should suffice. I hope I've made sense & put in enough information, I'd really appreciate some help.
Many thanks!
I was hoping someone can advise what the best thing would be to put at the end of our driveway it slopes down gradually away from the house & is gravelled which means we then have spillage onto the pavement & which has to be continually swept back.
I'm at a loss as to know what material/style/idea to use that's durable enough. The barrier wouldn't need to be particularly deep -10-15cm should suffice. I hope I've made sense & put in enough information, I'd really appreciate some help.
Many thanks!
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We have a lip sort of thing of brick at the end of our drive to keep the gravel off the pavement, it does the job in sort of fashion and the gravel seems to be retained. I do need to rake the gravel at times back up the gradient to keep it from being taken over the lip. The lip is about 2inches high across the width of the entry of the drive.0
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A brush. The problem is that the tyres pick up the stones and drop them on the next rotation. So a barrier will not work0
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Also can't see the point of having a nice drive and having to drive over a 2" lip to get into it.....
Maybe gravel for a sloping drive is not the best surface?
Olias0 -
Don't worry about the lip, it works for us and helps get the gravel out of the tyre tread.
The gravel is better for the drainage. The infrastructure around here is bad and we need water to drain away rather than wash down a solid surface to a non existent drain away. We live out in the sticks.0
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