Over the past few weeks we've rebuilt our driveway. It's been a nice project and it's made such a difference to the look of the house. Rather pleased with it all!
This is what we started with. Closest to where the picture was taken (where the soil was all turned over) there was another bush that we took out. It was an awful place to park the car when there was any rain because the ground just turned to mud.
...and this is what we ended up with. We went with 20mm Cotswold Chippings. The subbase took about 8 tonne of type 1 which we compacted down. There's a layer of sand on top of that about 20mm deep and then the grid system so it doesn't rut where the car goes and it should keep the stones in place.
The border to the left of the picture (right of the path) is very nearly perfectly level but the path itself undulates a lot. Unfourtunately, its a shared path so we couldn't work on that as well.
We decided to rebuild the step as well. The house was built in the late 50's and it looks like the step and the concrete slabs around the step were from the original build so they had seen better days. We're really pleased with the step. We actually built over and on top of the old one. As much as it looked horrible, it wasn't moving anywhere. We built the brick wall around it with a gap big enough to sit the 3 slabs in and filled it with concrete so we had a good base for the slabs to sit on. You can see the grid system here as well.
We've got another skip coming today and it's time to start on the other half of the front garden. It needs levelling, some flower beds built in and then new turf to finish it off.