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Dbikeguy

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26 minutes ago, Gimlet said:

80 T of new washed shingle is going to cost up to 3.5 grand just to supply. If you can wash/clean and recover the existing for less than that including labour it certainly makes sense.

 

Thinking about it, you wonder why the original builder just quoted for more shingle, when it's the base that needs the attention. Was he just going to throw more down in top of old?

I thought everything was cheaper in England?!

 

I'm sure we were paying about £500 a load (20t) for 20mm gravel last year

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One of the sites I look after for the Gas Board, there was a issue with contamination so decided to top dress the gravel surface, they wanted 70mm of gravel on top of existing. Unfortunately the contr

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If the drive thats there is of sound make up I would scarify and roll what's there., then top off/roll with the bare minimum of dressing. Nothing worse than driving through a sea of stone and it never

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By my calculations that would need roughly 60ton of gravel if Renewing. But the sub base is everything so maybe there has been an allowance to repair the pot holed subase?  Don’t really want gravel

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£875 for a wagon load of gravel LOOOOOOOL

 

Someone is seriously taking the piss there.

 

Normal price would be a third of that from the quarry, unless that is gold plated gravel of course.

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