Garden Bike Driveway?
 

Hey all:)

well the time has come again to start more frequently getting the bike in and out the back of the house (garden).

I like having a garden so no suggestions to destroy it all please:D

What you reckon about using that colurfull gravel? Will the bike be fine going over it? Garden is not flat also so when u get the bike out is uphill and will not be pushing it out but riding it out:)

Cheers

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

No, don't use gravel, we tried that - it's really hard to push a bike over it. We resulted in paving slabs, just the odd one dotted about - works wonders.

Lou x

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

:( Paving slabs it is then

I assume you just dropped them here and there then?

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

I think you would be better off digging out an area, say 3m x 1.5m x 100mm deep,

put down a layer of polythene to stop the grass growing through
lay a 70mm bed of sharp sand mixed with cement (Dry mix),
then some 30mm paving slabs, say 450mm x 450mm which can be bought for about £3.5 and you will need 25 of them to cover that area.

Paving slabs = £87.5
polythene = £5
sharp sand 1/2 m3 = £25
4 bags of cement = £15
1 bag of kiln dried sand bo brush into the joints after = £4

total = £136.50

Thats if you can lose the spoil you dig out some where in your garden because its not a lot of material really.

This should take about 4 hours.

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

jayjay - fancy coming to help?:) I'll put the drinks and food

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

's funny you should ask this, I was off last week and on some garden doing up show they had someone in a wheel chair and wanted a gravel path, you can buy these squares of rubber mesh - think bottom of a milk crate - that you put down first then cover with a thin layer of gravel. Gravel doesn't move when you walk across it so bike shouldn't sink. Thought 'that'd work well with a bike I bet'

No idea what it's called though would imagine a good paving place would stock it/know more than me.

Ste

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Think man!! Whats its called:) you know B&Q and the lots are useless when it comes to knowing stuff:)

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

It's along similar lines to what you sometimes see outside factories etc, called "grasscrete". A concrete grid laid directly on the prepared ground and the holes filled with soil and grass planted. Looks like grass but can be driven over without becoming a bog.

If using any type of gravel, use a geotextile membrane for weed suppression, it allows the water to drain through, and I like to use large gravel sizes, 20mm typical. If you use smaller stuff ("pea shingle") it gets everywhere, sticks in tyre treads etc.

I wouldn't use straightforward gravel if you want to take any sort of vehicle over it, it continually shifts about and needs raking flat again or it looks a mess IMO.

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

Last year we bought some block mat type things from B+Q. They're about a foot wide and 3 foot long I think and have a load of blocks connected together to make a strip of blocks. We laid a few of those in the garden and now some grass has grown through it, it looks really good and is solid to ride/wheel the bike along. A nice easy way to make a path! They weren't too expensive either if I remember rightly.

Amanda

Re: Garden Bike Driveway?
 

right oh - i'll go to the garden center to have a look for options