Technical Questions

The base for your garden office has to be stable and level. It’s not worth cutting corners. Before you start marking out the base, you need to equip yourself with a ball of string, wooden pegs, a hammer or mallet, a spade, a wheelbarrow, a tamper, a broom, some damp-proof membrane and some polythene or

Limestone is often more uniform in colouring, usually coming in white, buff or grey. Gravel is made up of many colours, with common options being brown, white or a mixture of shades.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock whereas gravel can be made up of unconsolidated rock fragment. Limestone is often more uniform in colouring, usually coming in white, buff or grey. Gravel is made up of many colours, with common options being brown, white or a mixture of shades. The shape of quarried limestone and gravel is

Despite how these two products look when in a stockpile they are, in fact, very different. Type 1 material is graded from 40mm down to dust and is used for a regulating course under highways, sometimes referred to as sub-base. Type 1 stone is made to ‘Clause 803: The Specification for Highway Works’ and is