Best source for rocks & gravels
Niall
I am the type of uninformed person
who would nip off to Homebase
and get fleeced for poor products.
Where is the best place to get rocks/pebble/gravel
Builders suppliers? garden centre?...
Is it illegal to pick them up off the road/countryside?
(I assume it is, 'cos you cant take sand off the beach here)
TIA
Niall
Ireland
Niall
TIA
Niall Smyth
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David Simpson
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David Simpson
Jane Ransom
We got ours from a farmer who dug them up when he put in a field drain.
He was only too happy for us to take them off his hands!!
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Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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david
who knocks spots off the larger firms when you only want a couple or so tons
of gravel/sand etc
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David Hill
Abacus Nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk
cormaic
<acadDEL...@iol.ie> enriched all our lives with these
words......:
>best place to get rocks/pebble/gravel
>Builders suppliers? garden centre?...
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Quarry, then local landscape contractor, then BM, then DIY
shed, then GC, usually.
If you're on my paving site looking up options for your patio,
follow the links for decorative aggregates to find contact details for
most of the major suppliers.
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cormaic Garden - www.tmac.clara.co.uk/garden/
Culcheth Paving - www.pavingexpert.com/
Cheshire URG faq/webring - www.tmac.clara.co.uk/urgring/
(allegedly)
cormaic CAN BE FOUND AT borlochshall.co.uk
BizzyB
near me has 10mm gravel at £22 a tonne including delivery and you get to
keep the big white bag it comes in which is very handy when you garden!
Quite a price difference than the £64 for a tonne of identical gravel from a
local garden centre (delivery extra)!!
BizzyB
david wrote in message ...
Mark H
To get some idea of the difference in price between a quarry and the GC.
Last summer I bought 4T of pond slate from Border Stone to line my pond,
this is pre selected so it ia all of a fairly equal size and flat to enable
stacking on top of each other. It came packed on pallets for £80 / Tonne. In
the garden centre the same pallets from Border Stone were selling the same
stuff but not pre sorted into a specific size, for £2.95 each piece, as
there must have been 200 pieces per tonne, not a bad mark-up.
Mark
Niall
I had a look at your site, cormaic
very nice, but regarding the suppliers,
I'm in Ireland!
Anyway thanks for your comments
Now... what does a quarry look like.........? ;-)
Cheers
Niall
niall
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cormaic
>I had a look at your site, cormaic
>very nice, but regarding the suppliers,
>I'm in Ireland!
Whereabouts?
>
>Anyway thanks for your comments
>Now... what does a quarry look like.........? ;-)
A big hole, usually, but in the midlands, around
Athlone/Mullingar, some of the drumlins are 'quarried' for their rock
and gravel content.
D
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>Where is the best place to get rocks/pebble/gravel
>Builders suppliers? garden centre?...
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time.
I have a sand quarry near enough to me, and when they've graded the best
sand the rest gets piled up as 'reject'. When I'm making a path or patio
or hard yard, I use a load of this reject stuff and get it vibrated down
before covering it.
In the same pit they also dig up sandstone / ironstone, which for them
is a bit of a waste product. If they have a small digger you can
probably get a few tons at a time collected by a local builder in a
truck. It makes super garden features as it retains the moisture and
ages very quickly. However, if the quarry has a huge computerised
excavator which dumps 20 tons or so from the bucket, then you'll need a
bigger tougher lorry to collect it in, as they easily damage smaller
stuff.
I've also had great success with mixed gravel, several sizes down to
pea, which again we get in a lorry load and just tip as the lorry moves
along the track. Its cheaper because its not been sized so precisely.
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David