Case Studies, Blogs, How-Tos and Reviews of MatsGrids Products
This latest article comes courtesy of Paul who had a large gravel front garden next to his current concrete driveway. He wanted to start parking on part of the garden but it was not suitable due to the strength, possibility of sinking into the gravel and migration. Paul told us: “We replaced the grass on our front […]
This case study comes from Matthew who was wanting to extend his current block paved driveway at the front of his home. He decided that to do so he would convert his current front garden into a gravel driveway to create the extra parking space needed instead of using block paving. Read on to find […]
This latest blog comes courtesy of Mark and his team at West Bridgford Landscaping who used our X-Grid to create gravel parking areas for two different clients. One job was a small overflow area next to the main drive and the second job was a large gravel driveway. Following a meeting with the first client, […]
Gardeners’ Question Time is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 4 from 3pm until 4pm. During last weeks episode (4th January 2019) listeners were treated to an engaging piece from Carol and Manoj who were discussing the use of gravel grids and permeable paving such as X-Grid® to create a gravel driveway within a […]
This latest case study comes from Babatunde who was looking to replace a muddy grass patch at the front of his home where his children parked their cars. The cars had taken their toll on the grass leaving him with a muddy patch with two large tyre tracks on. He decided to replace the grass […]
This case study comes courtesy of Gary who was looking to create some off-road parking at his home in place of his currently steep and unused front garden which you can see a photo of. It would be a lot of work to build up the area to become level but with the right products and […]
This case study comes from Adam, he was looking to extend his current bricked driveway to create another parking space. Although the existing half was brick, Adam wanted to create a gravel parking space as it would be strong yet simple for him to install alone. The extra parking space in front of his home […]
This case study comes from Paul who had recently upgraded from a touring caravan and bought a motorhome. His caravan was stored at the back of a concrete driveway on an area of gravel with paving slabs under the wheels, legs and jockey wheel. However, his new motorhome is much heavier than the caravan and subsequently the […]
This case study comes from Tim and Janet who were looking to transform a patch of land in front of their home from an almost unusable area into a beautiful grassed driveway where they could park their car. As you can see from the photos, the current area was a very uneven soil and stone flooring […]
This case study comes from Paul, after deciding to install a Car Port on the side of his workshop needed to convert his part tarmac driveway and part gravel path into a strong, easy to lay and permeable gravel driveway. After using our X-Grid® in a previous project, he decided to use our fully recycled […]