Gravel Parking Pad Construction

A gravel driveway also separates yard and parking areas.

Gravel parking pad construction.

My own driveway routinely gets delivery trucks on it that weigh in excess of 15 or more tons. To build your own gravel parking pad you ll need to dig and remove about six to eight inches of soil. Drill holes in the timbers and hammer 1 2 inch rebar or long metal spikes into the gravel if you want to prevent the wheel stops from moving. If you want to designate individual spaces within your gravel parking area paint landscape timbers to create wheel stops and use spray paint to create parking lines.

First we can lay machine crushed gravel of a larger size that will serve as a solid foundation for more aesthetic higher layers. Large base stones or l sized stones should then be installed in the bottom to a depth of four to six inches for strength. They re subject to the same concentrated loads as primary loads. Like gravel or interlocking concrete pads there are no petroleum products involved that can damage your tires.

A gravel driveway is a good place to keep your car off of mud. After compacting the area finish the pad with regular sized gravel or choker angular gravel. Use a tire vapor barrier. Normally we would like our gravel path to consist of 2 or 3 different layers of gravel.

If your gravel driveway is not carefully planned and constructed then it can turn out poorly. A gravel parking lot can be an excellent temporary or in some cases permanent solution for a commercial building especially if it s installed with detailed sub grade preparation drainage planning and engineering in mind. Cost for gravel parking lot or pad the cost for a gravel parking lot or pad costs 3 to 5 per square foot or about the same as constructing a new gravel driveway. However water doesn t flow through so the pad should be designed with a slight crown at the center to urge water to roll off the pad rather than pool.

A 10 20 gravel parking pad costs 600 to 1 000 to build depending on soil conditions labor and type of rock. You will need to maintain your gravel driveway in different ways throughout the seasons. We can add sand or dirt to this basal layer of gravel. Gravel parking pads are just like roads.

Temporarily parking on asphalt.