Resin Driveway Anyone got one?

[Lowestoft Firewood]

Dont just pour on top of an 'already stable base'. This makes it nearly as expensive as tarmac / brick weave when i got a quote for our drive. 

[dumper]

4 hours ago, Lowestoft Firewood said:

Dont just pour on top of an 'already stable base'. This makes it nearly as expensive as tarmac / brick weave when i got a quote for our drive. 

Good resin should be more expensive than Tarmac 

[AJStrees]

On the estate I work at, we had a large project done and have miles of resin bound surfacing on paths and driveways. As above, with a very good base and ideally permeable tarmac then properly mixed and correctly laid, the resin looks great. If you don't have a good base, the resin breaks up and all sorts of stuff grows through it from below. Resin bound is the gravel mixed into the resin which is the more expensive product but lasts years. Resin bonded is resin laid down and then the gravel of your choice rolled into that which is a far less quality product. 

 

We have had resin bound laid over old pavers in one instance and it looks pretty bad after a couple of years, so best is tarmac and maybe concrete. Resin bound gravel is permeable and so you do have to clean it fairly regularly as otherwise dirt, etc... gets into the small holes and things start growing out of it. Much like tarmac left for a long time with moss growing on it, etc...

 

Hope that helps. 

[Peasgood]

Always thought they look nice in the towns but would be a nightmare if you were likely to get mud on them.

[shillo]

imo owners of resin driveways are anal, owners think its a treat for peasants, like myself, to drive on it! I was given instructions on how not to turn the steering wheel too much as I might mark the resin. The rest of the job was just as anal, never again!

[Guest Gimlet]

2 hours ago, Peasgood said:

Always thought they look nice in the towns but would be a nightmare if you were likely to get mud on them.

I've spilled cement water from the washings from my mixer all over a resin drive and a hose pipe and stiff brush lifted it off next day. 

Do that on tarmac and it's a write-off.

(For reference, the worst thing you can spill on tarmac - or any surface - is pink gypsum plaster. If you've got a skip on a tarmac driveway and you've got plasterers coming round, get shot of the skip first. Because it will have a hole in it, the plasterer's labourer will chuck his wash water in it, and when the skip is lifted there'll be a massive pink bloom underneath it that will never come off). Spreads.. Fuckers they are.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Gimlet