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Self binding gravel path

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Terram is a proprietary landscape fabric, it's like a black woven plastic mesh. Not really necessary imo. Definitely do not lay it over the hardcore.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    The Terram  quality we bought is a really thick greyish black, quite stiff and on a very large roll. I wouldn't describe it as a woven mesh type fabric.

    Perhaps there are several different qualities.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Loxley said:
    Terram is a proprietary landscape fabric, it's like a black woven plastic mesh. Not really necessary imo. Definitely do not lay it over the hardcore.
    Should this be laid under the hardcore instead as they’ve already put this down 
  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    edited December 2023
    Lizzie27 said:
    The Terram  quality we bought is a really thick greyish black, quite stiff and on a very large roll. I wouldn't describe it as a woven mesh type fabric.

    Perhaps there are several different qualities.
    Yes, plenty of different grades depending on usage e.g. highways, pathways, drainage etc.

    Terram1000 is usually white and relatively thin, its most often used beneath soft landscape and paths.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Oops yes the stuff I was thinking of was more like generic 'landscape fabric' 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @coaching4adhd, I would be inclined not to if your contractors have already laid the hardcore, unless there is room to lay a decent thickness of the self-binding gravel.

    The thinnish landscape fabric does have a habit of working itself up the surface where it looks awful. What does work better is to pin the fabric down with either metal or special plastic pegs you can buy but of course this will add to the cost. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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