Arts & Literature27 mins ago
Imprinted Concrete
Does anyone have any experience with this?
We have a biggish driveway (about 80 sq metres) and am getting fed up with weeds growing through our block paving.
Want something with less cracks so less weeding.
We got a quote for resin but came in at 15-17k which is out of our price range but did like the idea of no cracks, no weeds.
I've seen an advert for impressed Concrete which looks ideal (tho don't know the cost yet) but seen very few houses with it done so wondering why that is.
This project is going to cost us several thousands so don't want to get it wrong.
Any ideas, advice appreciated.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.While I'm not a massive fan of Google's AI feature, it does seem to produce a remarkably decent summary of the pros and cons of impressed concrete. So I suggest googling 'impressed concrete reviews' and then clicking on 'Show more'.
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>>> " . . . the fact that I don't see it often has me worried . . ."
I suspect that you might be seeing it far more often than you realise. Take a look at the two videos below. (NB: You don't need to watch a total of around 20 minutes. Simply skip to the ends of each of them). You'll see that, in each case, the end product looks as if it's made up of individual concrete slabs, even though it's actually a solid block of concrete. So you might have lots of similar driveways in your area without ever knowing that they're made of imprinted concrete:
Nothing wrong with imprinted concrete Darcey. It's just ordinary concrete that's been stamped with a metal grid.
Apart from the material cost, you'd need to excavate to make room for the concrete.
Have you considered a traditional gravel drive? Excavate to a depth of 150mm (6"). Lay a landscaping membrane (weed control). Fill with clean(ish) hardcore, rolled in. Top off with chippings (a few colours available depending on where you are.) Roll that in, and there you are.
Good for security too (you can usually hear someone coming down a gravel drive.) Self-draining too (thinking Atheist's post above ^^