LBV Charente

Surely you should introduce them to a nice bit of ROSBIF!!! [;-)]  

[quote user="Théière"]Have you seen your ederly neighbour recently? [:)] 3" is getting to the point of too deep, 2" is better for any vehicles that may need to drive off the gravel.[/quote] Didn't use it on a drive - calcaire would be my first choice for that. Gravel tends to deform too easily for our liking. You simply end up with large ruts over time. As for our friend, we simply helped him create a low-maintenance area in his garden. It started off at 3" but over time it will gradually settle to more like 2". As it's a maison secondaire it made more sense that way.

We recently did something similar for an elderly neighbour - his area was about 100m2. We used 6m3 of gravel (about 8 tonnes) and it cost us about €30 per tonne delivered by a local builders merchant. We laid it to a depth of about 3" (8cm) and made sure we had a good draining membrane underneath to supress weeds. The membrane cost us about €1.25 per m2 from Bricomarche.