Advice on building a gravel parking pad
If all goes well this fall, i will be installing a gravel parking pad for the RV. It will be 36ft long, by 12ft wide. And will make it 4 inches deep. Rough estimate of 3/4 crushed stone needed is 4 ...
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tragusa3 wrote:
The sub-soil you're dealing with will partly determine what sort of prep you need to do. I'm on a very hard red clay. We just dumped the gravel, spread it out and used it.
Very true. If you are on sand, landscape cloth is very important as the gravel will just sink into the sand over time.
tragusa3 wrote:
We used "crusher run" and it is closer to cement now than gravel.
Crusher run has different names in different area. It is a combination of 3/4" and down to "fines". It compacts very well. If you are doing more than 4"-6" you should spread the first 3"-4" "lift" and compact that before doing the next "lift".
