DIRTY CEMENT.

[edgaines]

Glad you like that. I'm considering as I build my shop, house, tractor barn etc.. to use it in sealing the crawl space also. I also will use it to put a floor in the picnic shed.

 

[willywildes]

we have just started to sell some impervious concrete. rock and cement, for walk ways, and around heritage trees. and driveways it makes a solid surface and the water passes into the ground no run off no drains the enviros love it. and make a nice profit

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Is it something that is capable of being installed by a "do it yourselfer," is it available nationally, and what is the brand name? I'm very curious about these types of products!

 

[willywildes]

just rock and cement screed it like concrete and ram it down or use a vibrating plate not to much water or you will wash the cement off.you should find it at a concrete suppler in your area.

 

[SevenCorners]

Does anyone know how much the Polypavement costs. Has anyone used it? This seems like a really neat idea for my paths through the woods. I was thinking of gravel or mulch but this stuff looks so much easier to apply and hopefully cheaper.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Somewhere on their website I found pricing for polypavement, I can't remember the pricing but it was very very cost effective. I presume the pricing to be material cost only, but as a "do it yourselfer" can install it and as asphalt requires hiring a crew, it seems even more economical. Dig around on their website, they price it by the square foot based on how you use it.

 

[OkeeDon]

I found the pricing somewhere on the site -- I'm going to have about 9600 Square Feet of driveway, (800' x 12'), and I used their rules of thumb to come up with something around $2K for a surface an inch deep (16 cents to 22 cents per square foot; I used 20 cents as a guesstimate).

What I couldn't find was a rule of thumb about how many inches deep it needed to be for different types of uses The had a link to a design service on another site, but I couldn't get that site to load in FireFox, and it's easier to skip it than to load up a different browser or otherwise figure out the problem.

Without a guess as to how many inches I'd need, I don't have a clue how that $2K an inch translates to my usage.

 

[edgaines]

There are costs, on the "cost" tab of their site. It also tells how deep you need to have it, and for what applications.
It's $159.95 for a 5 gal trial sizy, and they sell by 55 gal drum for $895.
Lots of good info, but ya gotta look deep for it.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Ed, thanks for that link!
Wow, I am intrigued with the Polypavement system! My mind is literally reeling with ways to use that product, especially in dressing up
the paths through the woods that currently look, well, like crummy paths! I had seriously considered bringing in an asphalt crew to make
paths but really didn't want to destroy the natural look of the woods with asphalt. It appears that running a tractor & tiller lightly down the
paths and compacting the soil is about all that would be needed to make very natural looking, but DURABLE, walking paths through the
woods. If a more distinctive look is desired, the paths could be dressed up with some nice crushed stones prior to spraying with
Polypavement's solution.

And weed control around the garden beds would be a breeze with poly pavement, simply spray the dirt and eliminate the growth of weeds in
the paths between the beds, and it would eliminate the paths becoming muddy too.

And a parking area . . . and . . .
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And a parking area . . . and . . .
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1*Around the outside edge of my garage so I can just lap the MMM over the outer edge a little when I mow and wow no more weeds growing up against the walls and no more trimming along the building with the trimmer. Can't say I'd miss the green grass stains on the white vinyl siding When Ya get the weeds trimmed with the trimmer either.
2*Ground cover under mobile homes to keep it dry under there and save the frames from rusting up.
3*Ditch lining so no more weed eating along or in them.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

LBrown59 . . . unless that ditch is a dry ditch, you won't be able to use PolyPavement in there. Somewhere in my digging on their website it said that it is not suitable for areas that are used for runoff.