Geotextile Fabric Source

[ray66v]

Eddie and I are just ''old school''........ don't pay any attention to us.

Sincerely, Dirt

I do appreciate your doing this "right." In fact; I lose work sometimes, because I won't do otherwise.

Sometimes I do use things, I have discovered and tested, through my own experiments, to make the sales. In today's market, that can mean the difference between working, and sitting at home.

 

[jdmar]

I fully agree with you all that doing it "right" is best. But sometimes it is simply not possible. With my muck soil only the federal gov has the budget to dig 15-20 feet deep (or more) for hundreds of feet and add dirt...even then who's to say the dirt won't move when everything around it is soft muck. Even the oil/gas companies have put roads over this kind of soil and mounted their pumps/brine tanks/etc after layering gravel with geotextile. Geotextiles are a semi-modern solution to old problems. They spread point loads over larger areas. They are not needed where the soil is good or can be made good and solid by reasonable digging and fill. But the fabrics are lifesavers where the drive needs to "float." If they did not exist I likely could never have had a stable drive to my home (the home is on solid ground just in case you were wondering!). My drive trully "floats"...you can see it vibrate with large trucks (cement mixers, etc) or dozers going over it. But it has not sunk or rutted except to a very minor degree in one or two spots in over 800 feet of total drive. If you drive a skid steer 1 foot off my drive you will have to tow it out of a hole! I would not use it as "weedmat" but it is great stuff in the right conditions....err I think I mean WRONG conditions!? aaaww heck you know what I mean!
Peter

 

[dmccarty]

Snowridge,

Rounding up I was paying about a dollar per linear foot for the fabric. The stuff I have bought had 360 feet on a roll. The guy I buy from will sell me a foot of the stuff if I want. The price per foot is the same if I buy 10 feet or 360 feet.

I bought some two spring back when I connected the "barn" to the driveway. I THINK I paid $310/320 for the roll. Twas not that much more than what I paid in 2002ish.

Later,
Dan

 

[jgrinn]

I work comercial construction, and the geotextile is worth every penny!! For good results clean off topsoil, put fabric down, cover with 3's or 4's and then choke it in with a few inches of 2A limestone(that has the dust in it), then top with an inch or 2 or 57's (2B limestone). You will be able to drive anything you want over it.

 

[kmanvt]

You can check out the following sites. I ordered a 12' wide x 300' roll from US Fabrics when we were building out house (I had them split the roll in two, didn't need it to be 12' wide). Make sure you get a fabric that can be used under gravel and not landscape fabric.


US Fabrics - Products
Shaw Fabric Products

 

[SnowRidge]

I picked it up Wednesday. It was a hair over a buck a running foot for 12 1/2 foot wide fabric.