Re: soil cement driveways

Posted by RGatt on July 04, 2005 at 07:10:38 from (63.190.192.68):

In Reply to: soil cement driveways posted by BSer on July 02, 2005 at 14:40:36:

I live in North Georgia. My driveway (on a hill) kept washing out in ruts. I had a few bags of portland cement laying around, tilled them into the clay soil, compacted with a tamper, regraveled over. That was three years ago and I haven"t had any problems. On a work project several years ago, we used fly ash (kiln dust) to stabilize soil on a large area. Tilled it in and let it get rained on. Turned hard as concrete in no time. I think that tilling in would be better than just disking it. The better you mix up the particles the better results you get. To do a driveway in an area with no real freeze/thaw issues, I would give it a try. Fly ash is much less expensive than cement, but you will definitely want to mix it well, probably at least down six inches and then compact. The roller might be enough but a vibratory roller would be better. Maybe you"d want to try this whole process on a small portion to see how it will work for you.

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