GilSilvers
New member
My first driveway project, looking for advice.
Driveway will span a small creek, a shallow ditch really about 1 foot wide. Planning to put two 15" culverts side by side.
The soil 100' either side of the ditch slopes down and is soft and muddy, takes about 10 days to dry out after rain, and even then it will rut.
I've read I need an underlayment between the natural soil and the next layer. Planning to use upside-down salvage carpet for the underlayment - basically free! Instead of $$ geotextile.
Planning to truck in cheap fill dirt (here it is red sandy clay) to build up a road crown on top of the carpet underlayment.
And crushed asphalt (they call it milling) for the road surface.
Do I have my layers right? Underlayment, sandy/clay fill dirt, crushed asphalt? Or does the underlayment go directly beneath the crushed asphalt?
Spreading with front loader and 7' box blade...
Driveway will span a small creek, a shallow ditch really about 1 foot wide. Planning to put two 15" culverts side by side.
The soil 100' either side of the ditch slopes down and is soft and muddy, takes about 10 days to dry out after rain, and even then it will rut.
I've read I need an underlayment between the natural soil and the next layer. Planning to use upside-down salvage carpet for the underlayment - basically free! Instead of $$ geotextile.
Planning to truck in cheap fill dirt (here it is red sandy clay) to build up a road crown on top of the carpet underlayment.
And crushed asphalt (they call it milling) for the road surface.
Do I have my layers right? Underlayment, sandy/clay fill dirt, crushed asphalt? Or does the underlayment go directly beneath the crushed asphalt?
Spreading with front loader and 7' box blade...