Driveway

Hello everyone,

Please find the second post in my blog. This summer we decided that we would redo our driveway. We've been in our house for over 20 years and the weeds were overtaking our driveway. Louise wanted a little flower garden in the corner of our basement entrance. We also wanted to get rid of the train ties on the south side of the driveway.


Jasmine and I started last Saturday by moving the existing clear stone out of the driveway to the road in front of our house. On Monday, we finished moving the clear stone and took all of the weeds out. On Tuesday we started to install the wedge stone retaining wall on the south side of the driveway. Louise who is more patient than I, was in charge of installing the wedge stone. As always she did an awesome job. We decided to make the driveway a little narrower buy putting the wedge stone inside the existing train ties. We decided to use Robinson range colour. Below is a link to the wedge stone product we used.

Wedge Stone Product

Once the wedge stone was installed we installed our ground fabric. We used propropylene ground cover. The ground fabric should keep the weeds out for a long while.  I bought both the ground fabric and the wedge stone from my brother at Meker's Greenhouse. Below is a link to the ground fabric product we used.

Ground Fabric

On Wednesday I ordered 22 tons of clear stone. Clear stone is screened material that range in size from one quarter inch to one and a quarter inch. It is excellent for drainage or ground cover. Louise, the kids and I shovelled the clear stone for two days to cover the whole driveway. We also used clear stone to fill Louise's corner garden.

We finished putting the clear stone in Louise's garden on Friday. We are waiting for additional wedge stones to finish our retaining wall. We have about 5 tons of clear stone left over and we will be using it to build a path. I guess that will be next week's job.