What I found really good with your videos is the lack of playing to the camera and trying to be funny as so, so many do these days. You just got straight into it and kept it clear, to the point and informative. Well done!
Excellent. Love it. Hard graft. Great job. Have a daughter with 9 children who comes from the same mould as yourself. She will take on any DIY job and put men to shame.
Wow how have I never seen this channel before, you've earned my sub. I love your can do attitude and DIY approach it really helps instill confidence that I can give these things a try as I have literally no knowledge so am taking notes 📓
love your work ethic, sleet or snow, get it done. no power tools, handsaw the sleepers too. amazing how many helpful DIY videos on youtube require you to have every tool in the book. well done, looks great btw :)
Greetings from southern Indiana, USA! It both amuses and amazes me how similar methods and materials are when we're on totally different continents. Keep up the good work and videos.
I love your videos, we've been quoted between 6 and 8 thousand to do our drive and the space seems similar to yours. I just need to convince my husband I can do this myself. I have secretly bought a compactor so I can do work as and when between the children's naps. Thank you for giving me my self belief back. I'm practical but since having children i feel like I'm not capable anymore.
Hi from New Zealand, I loved watching the videos as we have a smaller project to you. We are from Oldham originally and loved your northern can do attitude. Keep up the good work.
Very nicely done. A handy tip for when you are getting materials delivered by the ton bag. Lay down a couple of 8x4 ply sheets. When the driver cranes the bags over the sheets slice open the bottom of the ton bags letting all the material fall onto the ply. Its so much easier to shovel gravel & sand when its not in the bags.
I live up North as well Teesside to be exact, but I recognise the snow, we got it the same time and it still hasn't completely gone, leaving a nasty wet slippery trail. well done for working in the bitter cold, I have been tucked up nice and warm with no thoughts of going outside.
+John Fithian-Franks Lol... Sounds perfect 😄 it soon keeps you warm working outside 😀 Thankfully it's all cleared today, so on to some extra plate compacting for good measure!
Nice Job! Everyone out here in the desert rocks their yards. A few well placed pots and you're done. Easy, simple and beats not having to mow the stuff. lol Although, picking up after the dog is slightly more challenging.
This gravel project is really inspiring and useful that I ended up doing my back patio and put down some stepping stones up to the patio door as well! One thing I would have done different though is cement the gravel into that recessed drain cover (a bit like how you did with the drop bolt pipe) , reason being is because in case it needs to be accessed in the event of a blockage the gravel doesn’t move around in the tray and potentially fall down the drain and cause a blockage. The DIY patio slabs videos and bungalow renovation are also really good too!
Great job vikkie that 1st whacker looked absolute pants compared too the 2nd one you could see a difference straight away a great job well done and I love the colour 😉👍
Been watching your videos a while now, noticed the 01827 on the gravel and thought, no way you’re local ! I’m from Tamworth. Keep up the great work guys. 👍
You should have got the trucker driver to hover them just above where you want the stones then slice the bottom underneath it. That way you just need to rake it out
I was just about to comment and suggest to do just that! Even if the aggregate or material isn’t where you want it, it’s always easier and quicker to shovel it from a loose pile of than from inside a bulk bag. Love the videos and keep up the good work! 😁
Also, for anything that's too far away for the grabber, get them to stack the bags. Then put a barrow next to the bags and slit the top bag, the contents then just slide into a barrow, saves shoveling.
Great to see a female doing jobs like this.even if we do need a bit of a lift here and there watching this makes me believe I might be able to do this on my own drive.
Looking good, I’ve gravelled my driveway but want to extend and can use some of your tips to do this, your doing a great job and keep the videos coming.
Thanks :) Next time I ever have to do this, I'll be taking other peoples' tips on board about splitting the bags while they're hanging from the crane ;)
Doing some research before I do mine. Going to do the same apart from buying about £200 worth of gravel retention grid's. To stop any gravel being pushed onto the pavement.
Thanks so much :) We nearly bought a house in Atherstone! We only never went ahead with it as the internet at this particular house wasn't strong, but it's a lovely place!
Congratulations. Lots of hard work! The one thing that would have made this perfect would be to add a stabilising grid on top of the sub-base before spreading the golden aggregate on top. This prevents the decorative aggregate from working down into the sub-base and keeps everything looking nice and level without wheel tracks etc. For a driveway that size it wouldn't have added much to the cost either.
Thanks +R Down. For a while, we really wanted them but was advised in a DIY Facebook group that it wasn't needed if the ground was fairly flat and was also worried about them being seen.
Just discovered your channel atherstone landscapes is just down the road for me use them all the time found this series off videos very helpful project coming on in January I think
Looks very smart hard work paid off , we have a gravel drive unfortunately we live on the back of a wood in chesterfield so leaves are a pain and its gone muddy but I don't have a pressure washer maybe that would help xx
Looks fantastic, although I do think the lighter colour would have given a better contrast to the brick of the house but perhaps I'm just biased against those golden coloured stones, had them out the back for years and hated them, I just think they look dirty. Anyway well done it looks very professional and saving money is always a huge bonus too
Thanks +Jack :) I loved the colour far left of the samples - they dried paler too the next day but my father in law advised us not to as they'd get dirty very quickly. And the moment we reversed on to the gold, we dirtied it from the grass verge which made me realise he was right. If that darker one everyone preferred stayed that colour, I would have gone for that instead (it was the cheapest) lol but looked like subbase when it dries :(
I did the same with the front of my drive, BUT MISTAKE , you do need a weed cover material ,to stop any weeds coming through the gravel ,I used CAUSTIC SODA in a watering can ( good plastic ) of warm water, to keep the weeds down , Cheaper than any weed killer .
Thanks +tofke314, I looked in to them and was told by other DIYers we wouldn't need them is we're not on a slope. I was also was worried about them showing.
A girl who will sit in the dirt when required.... now that's something!! My wife would have to spend the next three months in a convalescent home if she had to do that.....
If anyone is watching tbis and has old slabs , brick , block copncreteetc. Don't get s skip Get a Crusher. Make your own hardcore. No skip cost, no mot cost, no wheel barrowing stuff to the skip only to barrow more crushed stuff back. Saves money, and effort with barrowing. Crushers have tracks so easy to move around.. Great video and fab finish
Amazing work and effort! What I would do differently (and this is because I’ve done the same after laying over 4 tones of cotswold) is to put some form of gravel grid down. Whis I had of done that to begin with. Oh well. 👍🏼👍🏼
Haha, I'm not sure he thinks I'm top dog of the house, but he knows I'll throw him his ball while I work 😆😆 I've picked things up as I've gone along to save money, so I'm sure you can do it too :) Good luck!
An amazing job! You are an inspiration and have inspired me to do mine. I have a few of questions. How’s the drive looking now? Is there anything you would have done differently? Do the stones escape and make a mess on the street/road? Many thanks
Thanks! There's the occasional escape but not enough to bother sweeping. The only thing I'd say is that we put too much gravel down (maybe two tonne too much at a guess) as it didn't compress down that well. My father-in-law also confirmed this, but we can reuse elsewhere down the line.
Not sure how wet the road base and gravel was before you whacked it but I'm a landscaper and you are supposed to soke it 1st to get all of the air out it makes compacting alot easier
When the pebble on top is that dept it’s never good to walk on and the sub base comes up and gets mixed we always use a blinding over sub base and a much lighter layer of pebbles on top then 3 tonne would of done
