CED and Cedagravel

  After a few days of digging out it was time to fill it all back up again!  So, down went some landscaping fabric to act as an extra layer of protection against those pesky grass roots and then 5 tonnes of sharp sand was spread out to about a depth of 100mm (and then I needed a sit down.  I now know what my mother used to mean when she would say "I'm just going to have a sit down").

After the sand was down the fun part began.  If you do nothing else with machinery, get yourself a compactor, wind it up and let it go...not literally of course!  I had an hour of great fun trying to hang on to this thing and attempting to get the sand flat whilst it dragged me along behind it.

Then, on Friday our old friends from CED turned up with 4 tonnes of angular gravel and 17 sheets of Cedagravel.  Cedagravel, for those who don't know, is a gravel stabilisation system that stops gravel from rutting and being difficult to walk on or push anything with wheels on through it.

The sheets are just laid on the compacted sand and then the gravel is just tipped in and spread out so there is about 10-20mm of gravel over the top to hide them.  I lightly trod it down so it filled any voids and that was all.  There is now an even layer of gravel that has a nice crunch to it when trodden on and we won't have to spend any more time re-spreading it out after the path has been used.

                         

One word of warning though, the size of the sheets has been changed recently from 2.15m x 1.14m to 1.6m x 1.2m.  I had measured the width if the path to 1.17m to allow a little extra but will now have to trim the sheets a little.  A learning curve, you might say...