On 7/9/2011 9:26 PM, Brian Kemp wrote:
> Jim - If you are just moving a car once or twice a year, I wouldn't
> bother with grass pavers.
When we redid our driveway as part of a remodel a few years back, we put
this in the lawn next to the driveway:
http://www.invisiblestructures.com/grasspave2.html
Sits on a bed of gravel, then the grasspave, then sand, then sod.
We drive over it regularly with everything up to a 3/4-ton Suburban, and
the route into and out of my trailer-parking slot next to the garage
goes over it. It's worked well for us.
Issues:
a) Make sure the installer (or you...) knows what they're doing. I had
a guy working on the lawn who'd never worked with it before, and I
pretty much had to follow him around getting things done the way I
wanted them. Not super-difficult but certainly more involved than just
rolling out sod.
b) Make sure the lawn drains. We had a couple low spots where the grass
would be too easily torn up due to water puddling. Every year I'd add
half an inch of dirt and some seed to low areas, and after three years
or so everything was good.
c) If you've got a sprinkler system pay careful attention to the heads
vs the grasspave. Even then, digging up a sprinkler head for pipe
repair will be quite a challenge.
d) It still won't protect the grass from bald spots where, for instance,
you did a bunch of steering-wheel cranking while backing a trailer in.
Keep some seed handy for the inevitable.
John.
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