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Aggregates for Drives - Ideas & Inspiration

Gravel driveways are the most popular choice due to it being easy to lay, low maintenance and inexpensive. It also looks fantastic and there is such a wide variety of colours and textures to choose from. With gravel, you can create your own unique driveway.

All shapes and colours for your gravel driveway

The variation in shape, size and colours between crushed aggregate, rounded gravels or self-binding gravel gives unrivalled options over plain tarmac, concrete or paving. Nothing looks better than a well laid gravel driveway. Gravel driveways are also a great option for the security conscious. See all the choices on our Driveway Gravels and Aggregates category.

If you have sloping ground, the best choice is the self binding gravel where a more robust finish is required.

One of the main considerations when choosing an aggregate for driveways is displacement. Nobody wants to end up with ruts in their drive or having to rake the gravel out time and again. Whilst a cheaper pea gravel is okay for the job, this is exactly what can happen as the gradings are variable and won't neccesarily interlock. This causes one of the main issues with having a gravel driveway which is excessive movement.

In order to alleviate this, we would recommend an angular gravel,or chippings. They interlock better and lie flatter due to ther shape, meaning they won't disperse as easily as rounded gravel. You can also use 40mm Slate for driveways.

• 20mm Golden Gravel or sub-rounded gravel like the Cheshire Pink with a grading of 10 to 20mm will be best for a driveway.
• Golden Gravel, Cotswold Gold, Dove Grey, Cotswold Buff which are all available in our Gravels and Aggregates section.

Quick transformation

With a gravel driveway, what you will get is a quick and easy transformation to your home. See in the pictures below how some of our customers have transformed their driveways with our products.

Use our gravel calculator to find out how much you need. We recommend you lay driveways at a thickness of 50mm-60mm.

Make it Low Maintenance

Stop those weeds

Lay onto a well compacted MOT Type 1 layer or any solid surface, before the gravel is spread. This will prevent weeds coming through and keep it low maintenance.

Harder Wearing

Surfaces are made from crushed stone graded at 10mm to dust and comes in a beautiful rich golden colour.

The material is laid onto compacted MOT Type 1 but then laid thicker that a normal layer of gravel as it is then rolled and wetted to give a smooth hard compacted surface with a loose gritty surface. This is traditionally used in parks, for cycle ways and for easier mobility areas where it won’t rut up or spread.

The Ultimate Driveway

The ultimate aggregate for driveway surfacing has to be resin bonded or bound. Where specialist dried aggregates are bound in clear resin and applied to concrete or tarmac drives, giving a fantastic stone carpet of coloured gravels is the most eye-catching, and cost-effective driveway you can get.

http://resinbondedaggregates.com or contact us for more information on how you can transform your drive or pathway.