Concrete blocks to allow parking on grass

[Piglet]

We currently have a grass area that we use as extra parking but as we're building on our main parking area we'll need to park on the grass area all of the time so we need to make the surface harder.

We'd intended to get the hollow concrete blocks that allow the grass to grow through but give a solid surface for parking as we really want to maintain grass rather than convert to a driveway.

I'm amazed how difficult these things are to buy which makes me wonder whether they are crap?

Does anyone have any experience of them?

Cheers

[TheEnd]

they are pretty handy, they get used for fire roads round buildings so it can still be nice a green but you could get something big and heavy round the back if needed

http://www.boddingtons-ltd.com/civil/grass-paver-g...

that's a plastic version.

search for "grass stabilisation" to find them

[Astacus]

no experience of using them, but I think you can get them from Marshalls

http://www.marshalls.co.uk/transform/products/driv...

[thinfourth2]

How about those plastic waffly things they use on the side of some parking areas for lorry to stick a wheel on and not fk the grass

[mybrainhurts]

Used to good effect for parking near Stannage Edge, north of Hathersage in Derbyshire...

Lookee here-----> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&ge...



Hoe does one display a Google map hereabouts...?

[Firkin D]

I believe the product you want is called Tuff Turf. I have it down my garden leading to my garage. Been down 7 years now and from a distance it looks all lawn and works very well in in winter when the rest of the garden is a bog.

http://www.supremeconcrete.co.uk/default.asp?page=...

[Piglet]

Fab thanks for all of those, looks like my Google searching was poor....I'd tried all sorts of searches but not hit the magic words.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Does anyone have an idea of how much it would cost to put one of these things down?

Can't do it myself, but would happily pay for an extra standard-sized parking space.

[mybrainhurts]

You'll need more than one...

[henrycrun]

I think Screwfix do a plastic version

[Uncle Fester]

Watch the drainage of the surface you put this stuff on.

I live on clay, so it doesn’t drain that well.

I bought some of the plastic stuff. It came on a roll from Homebase. Just roll it out and peg it down. The picture showed it with a car parked on it.

All I wanted was to protect the lawn from a garden gate to a shed so a motorbike could get into the shed.

The water won’t sink through my lawn, but this stuff went down like the Titanic. Useless.

[Busamav]

google grasscrete

[mrmaggit]

Yup, grasscrete or grassguard, the Marshalls one, we keep in stock. Also there is ACO groundguard, made of plastic, again we keep it in stock.

Be warned, though they are not a chuck down and drive over product, they require base materials to work properly.

[satans worm]

Are they laid on type 1?

Also, you can get the same sort of thing for gravel, does this ,make the drive 'silent' or do you still get the gravel 'crunch'?

Am looking at alternative driveway options, all so far expensive (ie block/cobble, stone resin) how cost effective would grasscrete / gravel version be?

Any other suggestions cheap but nice looking drives?

(sorry for the thread hijak)

[Stu R]

mates old man owns this place supply the sort of thing you're looking for http://www.hoofmark.co.uk/

[Firkin D]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Does anyone have an idea of how much it would cost to put one of these things down?

Can't do it myself, but would happily pay for an extra standard-sized parking space.

When I put Tuff Turf down 7 years back the blocks alone cost £600 which was just 2 lines that stretch about 100 ft. Laid it ourselves onto some some crush rubble, sand then the blocks.

I live in a clay area and although my garden is a bog in winter, the Tuff Turf has not made it worse.

[mrmaggit]

satans worm said:

Are they laid on type 1?

Also, you can get the same sort of thing for gravel, does this ,make the drive 'silent' or do you still get the gravel 'crunch'?

Am looking at alternative driveway options, all so far expensive (ie block/cobble, stone resin) how cost effective would grasscrete / gravel version be?

Any other suggestions cheap but nice looking drives?

(sorry for the thread hijak)

Yes they do, the ACO groundguard can be used with a gravel drive, has the side-effect of tending to keep the gravel where you want it, but you still get the "crunch", I believe, so the drug dealers out there will still be able to hear plod coming up the drive.

At least that's why I thought people had gravel drives. ;o) As a bike rider, I can't stand the things.

[satans worm]

mrmaggit said:

satans worm said:

Are they laid on type 1?

Also, you can get the same sort of thing for gravel, does this ,make the drive 'silent' or do you still get the gravel 'crunch'?

Am looking at alternative driveway options, all so far expensive (ie block/cobble, stone resin) how cost effective would grasscrete / gravel version be?

Any other suggestions cheap but nice looking drives?

(sorry for the thread hijak)

Yes they do, the ACO groundguard can be used with a gravel drive, has the side-effect of tending to keep the gravel where you want it, but you still get the "crunch", I believe, so the drug dealers out there will still be able to hear plod coming up the drive.

At least that's why I thought people had gravel drives. ;o) As a bike rider, I can't stand the things.

Actualy the 'crunch' noise is a bummer as my neighbour has requested it a 'quite' drive, any other suggestions, we like the look of gravel but need it silent, stone resin is the best we can come up with but is expensive