roof slates as yard cover?

[carpenter1]

i have been offered 5 tons of roof slates that have come of a house,

would they work on the yard ground?

if i was to roll them with a vibrating roller, would the break up and be ok to drive on?

or will it be sharp edges and trye trouble?

 

would go on to of 70mm clean hardcore

 

any one used slates?

 

thanks

[s.varty]

i have been offered 5 tons of roof slates that have come of a house,

would they work on the yard ground?

if i was to roll them with a vibrating roller, would the break up and be ok to drive on?

or will it be sharp edges and trye trouble?

 

would go on to of 70mm clean hardcore

 

any one used slates?

 

thanks

 

If its had a good vibrating: no problem

[carpenter1]

it should be ok, no real sharp edges,

 

just to in fill around the 70mm clean hardcore, so it it locked in place

[muttley9050]

It will be fine mate, better than the landfill,but have a look through em as decent ones will make £1 each easy.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Good call on reclaim where possible, might be a few bucks in it. If you have a high volume concrete/cement mixer, put them in with a couple bricks and rumble them. It's a time consuming and noisy task but it rounds the sharp edges a treat! I've used them for landscaping, if you get a good process going you can crack through 'em and the end result is on sale at £10+ for a 15k bag in any garden centre!

[david]

i have been offered 5 tons of roof slates that have come of a house,

would they work on the yard ground?

if i was to roll them with a vibrating roller, would the break up and be ok to drive on?

or will it be sharp edges and trye trouble?

would go on to of 70mm clean hardcore

 

any one used slates?

 

thanks

 

are you putting anything on top of if? i dont know where you are but type 1 around here is £10 a tonne delivered so you wont buy many tyres for £50

 

your choice tho

[treedave]

Use slate paddles as top dressing loads round here, they're all rumbled to take the edge off or you will be slicing tyres.

They migrate pretty quickly if the surface ain't level and worse if vehicles are on it.

Best thing we found for taking the edge off was bigger cobbles and a big pan style cement mixer. You can load by machine then which speeds it right up.

 

 

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