Road base for Driveway and carpark

**m6sports** · 26th Nov 2010, 12:51 PM

As mentioned in other posts ive bought a house that im going to turn into my
work premises

i need to have 2 car spaces so im planing on pulling up the front lawn whats left of it
and putting down 100mm thick road base

Ive been advised to mix 2 bags of concrete per ton of road base
compact and then wet so to harden

is road base the best for this application or is there something better
ive thought about asphalt but they have all been around $5000 for the job

as for drainage im not to concerned as the soil is just sand

**SilentButDeadly** · 27th Nov 2010, 10:51 AM

given where you are...the local road base would be fine. Just placed it and compact it. We had a driveway and parking area made of it on a block of low ground close to Tuggerah Lake - worked a treat and survived a couple of floods no worries.

Never heard of mixing cement with it (you can't buy concrete in a bag - only cement with sand and stones in it!!) though....and if it's over a soft substrate then it'll crack anyway.

If you can source some reclaimed asphalt (which is available in your part of the world) from roadworks to place over the top (about 25 -50mm) and roll again....you'll have a nearly bullet proof car park.

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