We’ve yet to decide on driveway material after the garage is finished, one option was resin, yet to get quotes so that might well be a deciding factor, anyone any thoughts or experience of these kind of finishes.
Drive area is 200 sq mtrs
Last edited by Weirdfish; 4th February 2023 at 15:01.
I did have a bad experience with a resin-bonded drive. It was fine for a couple of years but then the resin started to lose its grip, and our lives were accompanied by a particle drift from drive to house interior, usually by a magic trick of getting inside our shoes.
Probably there are resins and there are resins.
Had this at one of our properties and it worked very well easy to keep clean and weed free no flood or water issues and if laid correctly no sinking.
Forum member “ eagletower “used the same supplier and could maybe tell you more.
Good luck
Addendum
Looking at further comments like anything choose your contractor very carefully
Last edited by mart broad; 4th February 2023 at 11:45.
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Three of my neighbours had drives done like this,two years and they look a mess.
Yep as Mart mentioned I had it in my old house. The three years not one stone came loose. It really comes down to the installer , would highly recommend ours . He covers Herts Essex .
Only pressured washed it once in the 3 years I was there. No weeds no , staining , no algae .
Unless I’m mistaken
Resin bonded , glue layer down , stones sprinkled on top - can come loose.
Resin bound- stones mixed in glue in mixer and trowelled down. - this is what I had . Like peanut treacle!
All to do with preparation, some horrific ones & some stunning near me.
Oh & you need powdered glass sprinkling on top unless you like slipping over when weather is wet or cold & damp.
Had ours done 4 years ago and would do it again in a heartbeat. Zero maintenance and looks great.
No stone migration, as ours is the stone in resin sort. Not cheap mind but glad we did it & extended the drive.
Would love it all the way around to the rear of the house but that’s going to be too expensive.
Just had ours done in November. Cappuccino seems to be the most common colour.
We have iron grids under ours to reinforce it when the cement was poured.
Really happy with it so far. Just looks like what you’d do for a modern drive these days.
Any pics?Originally Posted by Mj2k
I have monoblocking and would like it changed.
Used to have tarmac and preferred that for maintenance and wasn't as slippy.
Willey do you have pics?
It's all about the contractor and the weather whilst it is being laid. Good preparation and dry weather = a good job. Resin does not "stick" when any part of the process is wet. My concrete driveway was laid 53 years ago and is just starting to show some cracking. We haven't seen "old" resin driveways much yet!
Just received the first quote.
£19200, that’s just for the 20mm layer of resin, no groundwork etc that’s extra.
Strewth how big is your drive, what sq metreage...
200 sq mtrs
Doesn't the fact nobody knows if these last 10 years, give you a moments pause...seems eye wateringly expensive to me, but we're all different.
Last edited by Passenger; 4th February 2023 at 15:07.
Best I can do at the moment as not home.
Photo was when it had just been completed.
Last edited by Mj2k; 10th March 2024 at 08:59.
Absolutely, it was just an option, but it would seem a very expensive option, by the time you factor in the groundwork, that they would probably have to do to get the warranty, I’d hate to think of the final bill.
Plastic grass and resin drives - sign of the times I know
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
[QUOTE=Mj2k;6153252
Best I can do at the moment as not home. Bottom
Photo was when it had just been completed.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. Looks good.
Cars and the driveway
My word…. You live in my old house (design wise)
Best I can do at the moment as not home. Bottom
Photo was when it had just been completed.
4 bed detached ~1999?
Bryant Victoria house? Age sounds about correct.
If you need any more, just shout.
Will snap one of the drain cover as it’s a recessed design filled with resin & all you see is a thin metal border. Nicely executed.
I recently paid approx £60 square metre to lay, no ground work.
I don’t quite get where £100 per sq mtr comes from.
The resin is only a top coat ,so there’s still loads to do before this is layed.
I’d go for patterned concrete or block paving,I think you’ll save a fortune on resin.
Sent from my iPhone using TZ-UK mobile app
Few pics of the install. They removed the old tarmac drive, base stone layer, new tarmac and then resin.
Tapatalk not behaving for photos so missing a few.
If you had cement/concrete poured to serve as your base, on which the resin was laid, did you also have some sort of water channels or soak aways designed to take water away?
As resin bound is porous and so the water should be directed somewhere away from your house, etc...
I think for that reason tarmac is popular as a base, it lets water get to Earth below it, (excuse my terminology!)
That makes sense. We’re two steps higher than our non attached neighbour so there is a slope going down to the drain on the side of the house. Hopefully that’s good enough.
There aren’t any channels below the resin but I think concrete was used as they were scared of potential movement afterwards. Resin is the only driveway type they don’t offer a warranty on.
We had ours done about a year ago and very happy so far. Our contractor also laid tarmac underneath as above, and soakaways to drainage at the edges. 100sqm came to about £5k all in iirc, that is in the north though so a bit cheaper up here :-)
Sent from my SM-S908B using Tapatalk
I’ve just had our block paving re done more maintenance but A lot of the cast concrete and resin I have seen seems to crack after a few years at lest block paving you can lift a bit and relay it if it sinks a bit
Yeah, I think that’s the one…. Two bedrooms have sloped ceilings…
We bashed through the kitchen and dining room at the back to create one big space and I had my study built into that back of the garage….
Nice house…. We liked it a lot and it was a good design
Had our drive block paved just before the jubilee last year
We have a small concrete double drive. Could resin be put over that?
I like those pavers, are they concrete?Had our drive block paved just before the jubilee last year
That looks like quite an area
Yes
Sent from my iPhone using TZ-UK mobile app
Blocks look good for few years then then weeds etc make it high maintenance.
Blimey. that's a lot. Sorry I can't really help as a bit far.
Last time I purchased the resin kit, t was around £30 per sqm, so based on that its still only circa £6k for the resin part. A competent team would het that down in a couple of days.
The prep work consist of excavation , circa 8/10 inches, MOT type 3 levelled and compacted to around 6/7 inch. Type 3 is more of a loose limestone aggregate, rather than type 1 which has dust and fines which bind together.
2" or so of 20 mm open grade tarmac laid and compacted as the wearing course for the resin. This makes it all porous, so no drainage needed. Resin has to be resin bound as Eagletower said - a sample will show you it as a solid rice crispy type cake and only 18mm depth/thick. Resin uv stable so no real colour loss/fading.
Concrete can be used as a base, but not porous, so drainage needed, unless water dispersal can be on your own land to borders/lawns. Laying concrete a bit more involved, as expansion joints etc needed as you wouldn't want it cracking or any movement.
Resin bond would be whereby a glue/tar type adhesive is speed over the drive and grit chucked over. This will wear off extremely quick.
Had no issues with any of the driveways/paths I've done in 10 years or so ive used it....
HTH
Stone I think it’s about 100ft across it runs upto the house and around the back not a clue how much sqft but took around 7 weeks
Thanks- it’s on my list of home improvements.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
