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I am restoring a few historic ponds and will be using paddling clay with a flint cap. My usual suppliers as in the Midlands though so it's a crazy distance to send grabs. 

 

Anyone have any suppliers for clay in West Sussex or under an hour from Brighton?  

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3 hours ago, richy_B said:

I am restoring a few historic ponds and will be using paddling clay with a flint cap. My usual suppliers as in the Midlands though so it's a crazy distance to send grabs. 

 

Anyone have any suppliers for clay in West Sussex or under an hour from Brighton?  

What's special about puddling clay? There are quite a few brickworks around Horsham that may do a deal.

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1 hour ago, dumper said:

Think he wants paddling clay probably small pond!

Yes but they lined dew ponds and clay by puddling it but I thought any clay subsoil did the job.

 

I worked at a clay pit at Ewhurst and it was just ordinary clay which was pug milled smooth and formed into tiles and the gloopy stuff out of the pugmill would have made an impermeable lining.

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28 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Yes but they lined dew ponds and clay by puddling it but I thought any clay subsoil did the job.

 

I worked at a clay pit at Ewhurst and it was just ordinary clay which was pug milled smooth and formed into tiles and the gloopy stuff out of the pugmill would have made an impermeable lining.

Yep, “puddle clay” isn’t an actual material it describes a process. 


Depends on the m3 needed, I’d contact some local muck movers/remediation/civils and see what’s being moved around. How big are the ponds? 

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18 hours ago, richy_B said:

I am restoring a few historic ponds and will be using paddling clay with a flint cap. My usual suppliers as in the Midlands though so it's a crazy distance to send grabs. 

 

Anyone have any suppliers for clay in West Sussex or under an hour from Brighton?  

Might be worth contacting the Canal and River Trust, as they use clay in the same way to mend canals - and they are all over much of the UK of course.  I don't see why they wouldn't give you details of a supplier they would use....as long as you can actually get to speak to a worker who knows such things and not just get stuck in a call centre somewhere.

 

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