Anyone gravelled their own driveway? Top tips needed please!!

[foxcub]

We have applied to have a vehicular crossing and have been shocked that our council want to charge us £1,450 for the privilage (over 3 times what it cost 3 years ago!! .

Ths means that the only way we can afford off street parking is to pay the council to drop the curb, and then do the driveway ourselves.

Has anyone atempted this?

We want to put gravel down and have no idea how to treat the soil etc underneath.

Any tips?

Help please!!

Ha Ha it worked then!

UCM thanx for the tips - very useful

Any top tips anyone else???

No - what you really need to do is post a link to this thread into the BJ thread with a title 'apparently this MNetter has the perfect BJ technique'...or something along those lines ....that will get 'em coming (excuse the pun)...whether they post or not is a different matter

No probs fox. I asked Dh why all of the reinforcements and he said, I want it to last forever so if I die, you won't have to fork out for a new one nice. He called it 'belt & braces'. I am wondering what if I suddenly decide I want a front lawn as alot of flooding is caused by this concreting over everything

Have just discovered that in times of flooding the gravel swims away...

Sorry to hear that CN. Very sorry indeed.

I thought the rain could soak through the gravel and membrane? That's half the reason why I want it!!!!

It can - but when the water table is above the front door there is no-where else to go

Not too bad here now but when a white van drives down a flooded road at normal speed and causes a tsunami that the gravel sort of disappears.