Re: OT, putting in a driveway

Posted by EngineerJoyce on November 16, 2004 at 13:12:08 from (67.232.144.87):

In Reply to: OT, putting in a driveway posted by Joeeey on November 16, 2004 at 10:07:52:

First thing you gotta do is get the drainage done well. Make sure no water drains across the road bed, and make sure all water will drain away. If you have a low spot, put in a culvert/pipe and build the road bed up. Take the extra time and space to put a road ditch on the upper side, to flow to a pipe and under the driveway.

If your soil doesn"t have rock, the next thing you should probably do is (I"m probably gonna get slammed for this...) lay down geotextile fabric. Then put about 4" of Dense Graded Aggregate (DGA) also known as traffic bound or road stone, etc. Rock is heavier than soil, so it has a tendency to sink into the soil. The geotextile acts as a barrier to keep the rock on top. The road stone will pack on top of the geotextile just fine.

We put in a driveway 3 years ago by doing this and don"t even have a pot hole. We do have to grade the middle down and the sides back in about once per year. We had to add some rock in places that were spread only 2" thick because we drive so fast we rolled too much off. 35mph is smooth as silk -just watch that sudden turn at the bottom!

Best of luck.

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