Landscaping?

[M-technik-3]

They call this a rubble wall, what other names are associated with this style concrete walls. I want to retain more of a slope but it needs not to be decorative in anyway.

Needs strength though.

[iamsam]

what?

[M-technik-3]

Also has anyone used a driveable paver that you put soil on and then grow grass like these?



Want to rid my yard of hot pavement since I lost some shade trees last year.

[ohthejosh]

I was hoping you were alluding to manscaping. I am disappoint.

[slammin.e28]

I <3 pavers.

[samiam3356]

Also has anyone used a driveable paver that you put soil on and then grow grass like these?



Want to rid my yard of hot pavement since I lost some shade trees last year.

My old neighborghood had a couple homes that had drive ways like this. One had the main drive way done and the other was the driveway for the basement and seperate garage. I think they look bad ass of done correctly.

[M-technik-3]

No Manscaping, was meant as an adult conversation. Sorry to disappoint.

what?

Did you read what I asked?

Europe uses them everywhere, just figuring that while redoing the yard, I'd like to spruce it up some and cut back on heat from black top.

[akorcovelos]

Also has anyone used a driveable paver that you put soil on and then grow grass like these?



Want to rid my yard of hot pavement since I lost some shade trees last year.

I have been looking for something like this, links or info on buying/installing them?

[mrsleeve]

As far as the wall goes not hard to do. I did some stuff like that with the broken face a few years ago, apoured wall with a true footer might be better depending on how much dirt you are trying to hold up.

As far as drive way goes. Any time grass is on anything you will kill it by driving on it too much. Never seen it hold up. If you want to reduce heat from pavement, then remove it black top, re claim part of the area with top soil and sod/grass seed and then a traditional limestone gravel drive way/parking area or cement if you want to spend a little money. If you do the limestone put the standard 2a sized drive way stone in, then get a load of "fines" or sand/dust to put on top and wash it in with the hose, will be hard as anything if you do it like that.

[M-technik-3]

I have been looking for something like this, links or info on buying/installing them?

http://soilretention.com/drivable-grass/do-it-yourself/gallery/1/41/1/

Need 5 feet in height but will be building on some of the reclaimed land. So need to have a stable base.

[ck_taft325is]

You can do the pavers yourself if you can build a form (not rocket science) that's barely acceptable as square. Not hard and concrete is fairly cheap. Build yourself around 7 forms and leave about 5" of space (minimum) for the soil to go and grass to take root in. As long as you manicure your 'ish (lawn) you shouldn't have a problem with the lawn over taking the pavers themselves. Just leave 2-5 cm from the top of the paver with the soil. Or more if you like a slightly longer blade of grass.

Love the look. When we finally move into our new house (still going through all the confounded paper work to finalize the purchase) I'll be using a similar design/idea for the driveway.

[ohthejosh]

Aren't those pavers sort of like chia pets? Besides a lowering the temperature of your driveway what other advantages would a driveway like that provide.

Seems like it would be a pain during a rainy season since there is some sort of soil to maintain the grass.

Also as far as the retaining wall, how many degrees of slope are you looking for?

If you did a retaining wall with the offest pattern you would probably be able to create a higher degree of slope.

[akorcovelos]

I want the grass/pavers for the side drive that goes behind my house where I park my trailers. My main driveway is standard blacktop.

[Eecen]

Those "grass pavers" look cool, but like someone mentioned I doubt the grass would last with any regular traffic.

How high of a wall are you going to be supporting with the "retaining wall"? I don't know about Mass. but here you need to have an Engineer to sign off over some height, I want to say 10ft, but I'm a probably wrong there. Something to look into. They're very easy to build, compacted 3/4" crush base, flat cement footing, first few block layers filled with cement, locking pins...just make sure you have good drainage.

[M-technik-3]

I need approximately 5 feet nothing drastic just stopping soil from sliding down a bank of a former canal. That is all.