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While I am a fairly successful contractor who has over 25 years of problem solving experience I have reached an impasse for a solution to my own stone driveway. I have been trying to maintain a stone driveway on a steep pitch. I have about a 4 inch base of clean 5/8″ stone over what was previously badly deteriorated road bed under layment. I tried adding road dust to some areas but it has not been sufficient. I thought of a concrete pattern which would allow for grass or other ground cover but it would be extreamly difficult to form on top of the bedrock base. I just hate blacktop and pavers are to common (not to mention expesexpensive) Any ideas?
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..i take care of a couple houses on a half-mile of gravel drive ... some of the areas are steep-pitch..
every other spring or so , since long before i started 25 years ago, the excavator will come in and top-dress with gravel creating some gravel ((thank-you-mamms)) these are slightly pitched to gently move the water off the drive...after a couple years of doing this he knew exactly where he needed the berms to go .. this can also be done with a york rake and normal gravel drive maintenance..
the trick is moving the water off the drive instead of letting it run down the drive..
*Houzabout Pergo in nice stone tile pattern?Just kiddingWhat are the problems with the gravel road?,Potholes?, ruts? the gravel being driven into the underlayment/base ? or is it being pushed off and down the road by traffic, rain and gravity? As for Ideas I've seen tar and chip, tar is sprayed on the road then stone chips are put on top of that, guess you could use different colored stones. Sorry, but I have no idea on how to do this right or how long it might last. I think there was a "This Old House" program that showed gravel or stone chips being rolled as a topcoat onto hot asphalt . As I recalled it looked kinda niceOyster shells? Only seen them on flat driveways though.Just a few thoughts,Mike
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While I am a fairly successful contractor who has over 25 years of problem solving experience I have reached an impasse for a solution to my own stone driveway. I have been trying to maintain a stone driveway on a steep pitch. I have about a 4 inch base of clean 5/8" stone over what was previously badly deteriorated road bed under layment. I tried adding road dust to some areas but it has not been sufficient. I thought of a concrete pattern which would allow for grass or other ground cover but it would be extreamly difficult to form on top of the bedrock base. I just hate blacktop and pavers are to common (not to mention expesexpensive) Any ideas?