Our drive is a bit of a mess. It has various structural issues that I will go in to later when we look at them more closely, but at the moment the thing that is bothering us most is the mud. It has been raining LOADS recently and the mud makes it hard for us and others to get up the drive as well as creating a giant swamp at the top where we park the car which means everything gets covered in mud.
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| It is much worse when it is wet |
We are currently in a short interlude between rainy spells so we thought we had better try to do something about it. We started with the very top section as that is a very short steep bit coming in to the turning circle/parking area at the top and is the most difficult bit to get up as well. It is also where the mud bothers us most where we get out of the car.
It seems there must have been a better surface some time ago which has filled in with mud, we guess from rotting leaves as well as what washes down the hill. The surface underneath means the water takes longer to drain out of the mud compounding the problem.
We decided to scrap the earth off back to the harder surface underneath and then top up with gravel.
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| Area with the mud scraped off |
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| Gravel added |
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| The earth we removed |
The two strips you see above yielded something like 6 wheelbarrows full of earth so it is going to be quite a big job to do the whole muddy patch here as well as others similar at the corner and bottom of the drive. Something to look forward to!
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