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PostPosted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:15 pm 
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I am going to gravel my drive but am going to put down a CoreGravel stabiliser to hold the gravel in place.

I am planning on putting 20mm annular gravel down as normally this sits better on drives without the stabiliser but I am not sure on a drive with the stabiliser if it will sit better and have less movement over that of a smaller gravel say 6mm to 14mm.

What do you think??


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On the CoreGravel website it says "We recommend gravel 10mm or below, such as pea gravel or crushed angular gravel, to be used to fill the 38 mm cells. We also have 50mm cells for larger size gravel or aggregates."

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northwales4u wrote:
On the CoreGravel website it says "We recommend gravel 10mm or below, such as pea gravel or crushed angular gravel, to be used to fill the 38 mm cells. We also have 50mm cells for larger size gravel or aggregates."


I think their larger 50mm supports up to 22mm gravel so they have a product for both but I'm not sure if one is going to be better than the other???


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Not being funny , but gravel drives will always wear tyre tracks in them, with or without fancy ideas like stabilisers! As an apprentice my boss of 25 years or more ago always told me to lay it ( 1 pebble thick on compacted 2" crusher/ h,core, & 10 ton on his drive & courtyard went a very long way!) he also told me when it wears a bit to top it up where the grooves were 6 mnths later with an extra ton or 2.
The moral of the story is it can be instantly revamped at anytime for very little money.
He is a very wealthy man now & still has a gravel drive to this day.
p.s 20mm gravel is cheap & cheerfull.. :salute:

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