My husband and I are moving out to my family's property. It was once an active farm and we hope to bring it back to life…
One of our big projects we need to work on is this driveway. It's primarily sand with a bit of gravel… and it get very very wet after rain and snow melt. Disgustingly slick and mushy and a huge mess.
We're needing a drainage solution.
The lowest point and the really only super troublesome spot is right passed through bridge going over the creek.
What should we do to improve the driveway?
by ImperfectRelish
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Just love the title… hope someone can chime in for you…
How to title?
Not like this.
So…..expensive…the proper way would be to dig out the whole thing 8 to 12 inches down..or more potentially depending on what the soil/road is like and replace it with a 3/4 minus road base possible with 2 inch minus at the bottom and crown the road up higher than its surroundings to shed water off and away….
Thats based on your description of it being a muddy mess when it gets wet…. you could possibly get away with topping it with some 3/4 gravel and allowing it to work itself into the road bed… still want to crown the driveway….
Another direction is to lay down a geotextile over the existing driveway and spread a 3/4 minus road mix over that to crown the driveway Or you have to dig a ditch on either side but ibdont recommend that ..its more maintenance to keep cleaned out and find places to send the water …
Cheapest easiest way is probably raise it.
$$$. Crown and pitch. I wouldn’t do side ditches, been there, done that, pita.