john in la
Well-known Member
What do you guys use or recommend for driveway material?
Remember I live in the deep south so there is never any snow grading to worry about.
Driveway is hard packed white to tan clay.
You could not dig a hole in it with a pick axe.
Has had river gravel on it but has sunk down into the clay.
Driveway is at grade with surrounding ground.
My options that I know of........
Crushed limestone.
Makes a good driveway but out on my price range.
Blast-furnace slag
Also makes a good driveway but must be trucked 50 miles so expensive.
Recycled asphalt
I have never priced this so know little about it.
Now we will get into things more in my price range.......
Red dirt to build a crown then cover it with river gravel pumped out the ground. This is the same washed gravel they use to make concrete around here.
This is what I was thinking of doing.
Dirty river gravel.
This is the above gravel as it is pumped out the ground; it is not screened or washed.
Mixture of sand (like is on a beach) all the way up to 2 inch gravel.
Crushed concrete.
A guy at work told me they opened a crushing plant close to me so this will most likely be the least expensive.
Suppose to be from dust to 2 inch concrete.
Have not seen the product so I do not know how pure the final product is.
May have bricks; cinder blocks; and or rebar in it.
Remember I live in the deep south so there is never any snow grading to worry about.
Driveway is hard packed white to tan clay.
You could not dig a hole in it with a pick axe.
Has had river gravel on it but has sunk down into the clay.
Driveway is at grade with surrounding ground.
My options that I know of........
Crushed limestone.
Makes a good driveway but out on my price range.
Blast-furnace slag
Also makes a good driveway but must be trucked 50 miles so expensive.
Recycled asphalt
I have never priced this so know little about it.
Now we will get into things more in my price range.......
Red dirt to build a crown then cover it with river gravel pumped out the ground. This is the same washed gravel they use to make concrete around here.
This is what I was thinking of doing.
Dirty river gravel.
This is the above gravel as it is pumped out the ground; it is not screened or washed.
Mixture of sand (like is on a beach) all the way up to 2 inch gravel.
Crushed concrete.
A guy at work told me they opened a crushing plant close to me so this will most likely be the least expensive.
Suppose to be from dust to 2 inch concrete.
Have not seen the product so I do not know how pure the final product is.
May have bricks; cinder blocks; and or rebar in it.