We went to the county fair on sunday and in the booth for the county's Cooperative Extension they had a sample of Flexi Pave. It looked and felt like what I want for my walkway. It is slip resistant and should conform well to the boulder my front yard is on. The guy in the booth said they put it down themselves at their office but could provide me with much info on it. Has anyone tried it or something similar and if so is it DIYable? Google has not turned up much in the way of suppliers.
http://kbius.com/kbi-products/kbi-flexi-pave/
No story from the fair is complete without a pic of me and my beloved funnel cake:
I've heard of it but have never seen how it's installed, they used it on a motel we were working on several years ago. I like the idea of using recycled tires.
And now I want a funnel cake.
I really want to replace my busted up driveway with a porous system, but I want to go Euro-style:
Is it just a pathway product or can it take the weight of cars and such?
And I'm an elephant ear man myself.
pinchvalve wrote:
I really want to replace my busted up driveway with a porous system, but I want to go Euro-style:
Wait... you'd have to mow your driveway?
They use something similar around here. Building codes will only allow a certain sq ft of land to be covered by impermeable surfaces so rain water has a better chance to soak in rather than run off. What they use here, allows them to pave more parking area and still be under the maximum.
Looks like the stuff they use at one of the playgrounds around here
If so, it's pretty neat stuff. been there for a few years and is holding up well
SVreX
MegaDork
9/1/15 9:27 p.m.
I've used similar products in playground construction.
It was VERY expensive, and not DIY friendly. Required special application equipment. I think installed was 4-5X the cost of asphalt. But it was not the same product.
Your local concrete companies should also be able to talk with you about permeable concrete.
If you can find somebody to provide the mix you could probably DIY. It's basically really dry concrete with no sand or fines that you dont float and finish. You need to test the infiltration rate of your soil and provide an appropriate thickness of crushed drain rock below the concrete to act as a reservoir to hold the water as it soaks into the ground.
That isn't the chesterfield fair is it?
I do not know that specific product, but I have seen similar products in use. They have been in service for years and are holding up well.
For a walkway, you might do better with the permeable rubber matting that can be bought by the roll or bundle and laid by hand. KBI also has flexistone, which might be more esthetically pleasing for a walkway.
ProDarwin wrote:
pinchvalve wrote:
I really want to replace my busted up driveway with a porous system, but I want to go Euro-style:
Wait... you'd have to mow your driveway?
It's the trimming that will kill you!
Thanks everyone. I don't have a big space to do so I wasn't too worried about the price over concrete and I wasn't as concerned about the porous aspect since its being installed over the rock that makes up the front of my yard but the rubber felt like it had good traction and given the bride's ongoing battle with gravity I thought it would help with the occasional hard landing.
SVreX
MegaDork
7/2/16 7:15 a.m.
Is that an activity gay people in NY enjoy doing? 
Paving Queen Canoe.
I don't understand how it doesn't get shattered by expanding water-to-ice. If it's permeable and it rains but then freezes then it's going to be full of expanding liquid...... Just doesn't compute unless, Florida.
In reply to KyAllroad:
The stuff I looked at was bits of ground rubber held with a binder. If an water frozen inside it there was some give that allowed I to stretch.
Instead of a retention pond, a commuter lot I used to park at had this stuff at one end to capture rain runnoff. It seemed to become less effective over time as sand from runoff filled the surface pores and it was prone to being stained by the red clay soil we have.
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