90% drive way 10% house

It's like a regular gravel driveway, but with extra steps

$155 for one square tile? No thanks. I’d rather spend the money on a stronger concrete or asphalt driveway.

Hey yall. This is product placement. The idea is stupid and unnecessary because it's an ad. Hope this helps clarify.

They installed this system at a new building for my company. It was like driving through slush, threw up rocks that broke windows, and the plastic grid started to come up out of the rocks after only a few weeks. In less than a year it was completely ripped out and replaced with concrete. EDIT: For everyone saying that we drove on it wrong, or went too fast, or there was too much traffic. The only way into the area was through a security gate that you needed a code for. We moved into the offices in August 2022, but the building was not yet open to the public. (As of this writing: January 2024, it still isn't.) For the majority of the time, the staff of 3 were the only ones in the building. Within a month of the offices being opened, management was already talking about having the gravel replaced with concrete.

I’m no expert….. wait a minute, yes I am. This is not the correct rock if you want it to be permeable. Low spots will definitely pool.

Nobody in their right mind would go to this much trouble... for a gravel driveway.

I saw this and was like "how are we supposed to snowblow that?" before remembering some people live in snow-free locations

You combined the high cost and intense labour of a cement driveway with the mediocrity of a gravel driveway lmao

$500,000 later, we had a gravel driveway

"Gravel driveways are nightmares" " MINE will be different! "

My family transformed our driveway with one truck of gravel and a bunch of kids with rakes. Two hours and $150 lasted a few years.

"Driveway" = "entire property"

Gravel driveways are nightmares. Lawnmowers become rock guns.

Glad to see at least one company figured out how to make recycling profitable. You're literally paying them for the opportunity to bury their trash in your yard. Absolutely genius

Yard/garden/weed fabric is an absolute nightmare. 7 years after buying my house, I've been spending months ripping it all out by hand because it looks like trash bags showing through the ground. It stopped the weeds for the first year and that's it. 🙃

Compacted crushed stone isn’t permeable. My company installs permeable paver systems and I can tell you that system doesn’t work the way the voiceover claims. You have to use a washed stone base…not crushed. The weed barrier is permeable, but the stone isn’t.

For the labor cost, get a complete concrete driveway.

that smooth gravel base is like screaming "pour asphalt over me!"

And I'm sure it has an astronomical price tag to go with it!

All the drawbacks of gravel, with all the cost and labor of concrete. Great Job!!

A weed barrier is one thing, but it's the dirt and leaf litter on top which causes weed problems eventually. Dirt is trapped in the gravel and stuff just grows. Every time - without fail

At the end of the day, you still have a gravel driveway.

Driveway is worth more than the house 💀

"Instead of bringing this plastic to the landfill, we put it in the ground"

Buddy, you completely sealed your front yard.

"How much microplastic do you want your driveway to leak?" "All of it please!"

pricepoint done this way: 90k pricepoint if you just pour some concrete: 1.5k upsides done this way: roots wont completely ruin it. water can go through. ice shields wont ever form. doesnt have to be completely flat to work decently upsides done cheap way: quick, cheap, cannot be messed up, roots wont do a thing for many years until they finally break the slab, will dry very quickly. at least that's what i'd estimate

Bro really said make his driveway look like a prison yard

I love how the internet makes people feel like they are reinventing the wheel.

Dude was like a 70% of the way to just call in a few cement trucks

I think normal grass would've been the better option

"Weed barrier" Dandelions: "And I took that personally"

They defeated the point of a gravel driveway..........cost

My driveway to the house is a meadow. I excavated the ground and filled it with gravel. Then I compacted this course. I laid two traces of stone as a path for the wheels of the vehicle. I sifted the soil and mixed it with sand. Then I filled about 4 inches on top of the gravel, compacted the soil and seeded sod. This driveway doesn't get hot in the summer and allows rain to seep away.

My dude couldn’t even grade it off with the skid steer and still had to rake his balls off…

That looks like a more expensive way to lay down gravel

Completely changed it from a gravel driveway to a smooth gravel driveway

Nah I'll stick with my nice solid concrete driveway ✌️

putting plastic directly into the ground, nice. Weed barrier decays into a massive pain, and disperses plastics as it breaks down, and as it decays it becomes harder and harder to remove. however that probably isn't an issue with a driveway, still lots of plastic 🫤

Anyone who's ever seen one of these types of systems after a few years knows they don't last or work well.

That weed barrier aint gonna stop the dealers.

Also don't allow heavy vehicles to EVER drive on this driveway. Those retained metaled driveway products have a maximum weight of sweet fuck all.

Bruh, at that point just pour concrete. That driveway is going to last 2-3 years before it needs more gravel to fill and tamp. Not to mention all the rocks all over the place; stuck in your tire tread, all over the garage, spilling out into the street, in the yard etc. Gravel driveways should only be used for long driveways in rural areas.

Seems like an incredible way to over charge and under deliver.

Buddy just getting absolutely destroyed in the comments and I'm here for every minute of it

As a pavement design specialist for o ver 25 years, I would not use it due to drainage problems if you do not drain properly. I am pulling out 5000m2 for a client of mine due to damage from trucks. One large truck could destroy it

According to their website, one 24"x16" plastic mold is $100!!!! I think I'll pass!!

Microplastics for centuries

I have zero knowledge on roadway construction but I do know that driveway still looks like crap even after all that wasted work😂

So, what exactly is the purpose? I understand wanting to have some kind of separating mechanism that keeps the gravel from "washing away" being "dispersed in otherwise non intended manners". however, I feel like this system is a bit of a stretch to combat those symptoms. Would like to see before and after photos of this system, say 5 or 7 years out? to see how much difference it truly makes.

Friend of mine installed a drive like this in NZ, it's still good 8 years later, and he parks a small garbage truck on it as well as his cars. The rain permeates the drive and helps stop the flooding in the street, unlike the concrete drives of his neighbors.

Plot twist, it costs more than asphalt

The most important thing was left out; price?

After reading the comments, I realized that some people are extremely clueless. They actually think that the shed is the house. Mind boggling.

you can also dig 2 meters deep, fill with concrete, put concrete blocks on top and it will work, both cheaper and better for larger surfaces

I'd love to see how this looks 2 years later.

Don't trust everything you see online. Especially, shorts & reels.

Not practical if it snows where you live. Water seeps in and freezes and loosens the gravel.

Concrete with fiberglass additive mixed into 4000psi concrete gives a strong finish. I was a concrete specialist for many years with hardly any complaints.

It’s called Cellular Confinement and it’s been around for decades. It was never designed to be a permeable solution. It was designed for stabilization and erosion control. The plastic pieces should also be fastened to the ground with spikes before backfilling. When done properly, a system like this can support a 60,000 pound fire truck. And that’s on grass.

"How is this different from me having a ton of gravel just being dumped and me spreading it over with a rake? " "Well, this way you pay me 4500 dollars"

You need to use open graded stone. 3/4” clear gravel minimum 10” base + Ecoraster grid system for this to be true permeable and load bearing

it would be permeable but you used the heavy ass excavator to compact the soil beyond permeability

Mate I just don’t get it. Can you make a video explaining why this is better than traditional alternatives?

just installing fresh gravel would've also completely transformed this driveway

If you're worried about weeds, just sprinkle Preen over the gravel every 6 months and it'll keep them away. Safe for kids and pets.

Having grown up around dirt roads and gravel driveways, my hunch is that the product's main benefit is that the mesh slows the formation of deep potholes and washboards. Not zero-maintenance. You will need to keep adding gravel over time.

Ooos 5/8 minus is no longer permeable. When compacted it has only 3% permeability. Next time use 5/8 washed to allow water to pass through

"We have one beautiful, sexy beast of a driveway" Son that shit looks absolutely fucking horrible lmao

I'm 95% positive that you should have used clean stone on top to fill the grid. Otherwise, if you didn't fully compact your base because of the grid holding up the compactor, it's gonna cause all the dust to wash out and likely kill your grass and therefor counter productive to continue to use down/minus crushed rock, you also should have watered your base to properly bind the material.

Cool for the right application. You guys did a great job. Not for everyone in every climate but for the right folks and the right area it’s a nice option

Hate to say it but this isn’t permeable. When you have multiple layers of compacted rock, that’s eventually going to be filled with sand and other fine materials, it will come in permeable. It doesn’t have to be asphalt to be non-permeable. Think about the bottom of a river or even a puddle. It’s sitting on top of Dirt, which is compacted fine rocks yet water doesn’t go through

This just seems like a very complex and expensive process to something that should be relatively cheap and fast.

the weird barrier is a great way to make this whole permeable driveway a lot less permeable. it also pollutes your land with chemicals and plastics 🤢 also, as leaves and grass etc falls weeds will grow, it’s a waste in so many ways. i do like the permeability to this overall beyond that and it seems helpful for reducing flooding

All fine if you have $100,000.

That looks like the most depressing piece of engineering I've ever seen

My next door neighbor had a business doing dirt work and installing septic systems. He always swore by putting down a base layer of 1 and 2 size rock, packing it down and later covering it with light gravel. It really made a strong base. I trust his method over this any day of the week.

Did this under part of our lawn with a similar product so we can park the motorhome on it and not make ruts. Works great, going on 10 years now

With that level of effort and cost I’d rather just do concrete or take it a step further and lay down cobblestone which would be far more aesthetically pleasing and longer lasting.

Then the rocks get taken by the tires, grid breaks apart and the plastic starts coming up. Two years later it’s a mess.

This allows rainwater to drop into the earth below, not to runoff into the sewer system where it can overwhelms it, flooding the neighborhood. I'd like to see earth and grass applied and planted between the plastic.

Those weed barriers work for a solid 3 months and then more robust weeds start growing through them, in reality, it just makes it 10x harder to renovate when the time comes

Is barely permeable: Weed barrier will hold water in puddles, rock was compacted before plastic mesh making it difficult for water to get through. Water will likely pool in the mesh of the plastic. Is bad for environment: 100% recycled plastic or not, you’re still putting 2 layers of plastic in the ground, both of which will likely become damaged. Plastic will be in your soil. It’s not long lasting: Concrete and asphalt, although they do have cons, are long lasting. Gravel often gets messy and new gravel is needed often to maintain a gravel driveway. Whether using typical gravel, or this type, regular maintenance is required for it to look good. Typically gravel though, does have the previous cons.

I've never heard a driveway being called a sexy beast. 😂😂😂

And it costs more than a paved driveway!

Cordless impacts are amazing to have.

high tech solution to a problem that doesn't even exist

i had 3000 sq/ft of this stuff in the heavy duty variant. despite following all best practices for installation and securing it with 9 spikes per panel the entire driveway pulled itself out of the ground and was ruined when someone did a u turn on it. do not use this for anything but driving straight on/off and parking, it does not hold up to regular driving

Its not about using recyclable plastics! Its about using plastics for such stuff. Thats sheet you put under the gravel breaks down into soil after a while and the same is going to happen with the grid. Restrain from using plastics where they are not necessary.

For a flat drive it works both a driveway with water washing down an angled driveway mine washed out and didn't help at all.

if you didnt pour it in concrete it's your own asphalt

How to turn a small gravel parking space into an expensive over engineered parking space. That should’ve been the headline.

Microplastics included

theres only 2 acceptable surfaces around a house. 1. grass 2. asphalt/concrete

Go to this dude’s New Year’s party and he’ll brag for 10min about the rocks in his driveway. 😅😅

The country club I used to work for used this on a section of the golf cart path that needed a quick repair while they allocated money to repave it. It cost them over $2000 and it washed out in a heavy rain 2 weeks after it was installed.

Here in cold you would need to place DuPont HiLo (high load capable polystyrene) to prevent frost heave but then no longer permeable. If that mesh was stainless steel I’d give it more hope.

This is definitely a sexy beast of a driveway. I'm glad you called it that

Imagine taking the simplest form of something making it 100x more complex and 1/2 as useful