Some help

[Super-Shiny]

At the front of my house there is a small front garden that i want to just make it look better, i want to dig up all the weeds and flatten the surface ready for a membrane (to stop weeds) and fill the above with these: HB Beach Pebbles Grade 40 Maxi Bags

It says one bag will do: Coverage: 1 pack covers 0.4 sq m

All that 0.4 sqm goes right over my head so can anyone help to tell me how many bags i will need?

Here is a rough diagram of the areas i need to cover:



Maths has and will always be my worst nightmare

Help

[sleedale]

I might be waaaay out but I make that area 8.27sq metres, which means that at coverage of 0.4sq m per bag, you'll need a lot of bags.......20.675 I think, which works out to be £175.53

I so hope I'm wrong

[Super-Shiny]

Aug 19, 2014 19:23:30 GMT sleedale said:

I so hope I'm wrong

So do i

[Ripshod]

I'm sorry. So, so sorry. Would appear sleedales maths is correct

[igual]

Tbh they are ruddy expensive we just had our back garden landscaped had 8 crane bags of Devon red delivered for £550
You need approximately 2 crane bags at a depth of 45 mm.
www.bournemouthaggregates.co.uk/index.html. 1.5 ton load from here is a good price

[sleedale]

Sorry Super-Shiny, I've just done the areas again........and it's still 8.27 square metres, unless you've stuck a 0 or two on those measurement! And if one bag does less than 1/2 a square metre, it's going to be, well, loads.

That isn't really a 'small' front garden........1.5m x 1.5m is small.....ish and you'd still need 5.6 bags for that.

The bags are too small.......... Hopefully I'm still wrong I'm still very

[sleedale]

Aug 19, 2014 19:32:49 GMT Ripshod said:

I'm sorry. So, so sorry. Would appear sleedales maths is correct

Well, I'm sort of happy I got the maths ok (I'm getting old and slush brained these days) but maybe someone can come up with a cheaper alternative........they'd look very good though.   You have impeccable taste 

[Greg]

I make it 9.02 square meters so 22.55 bags = about £190

Is there no quarries round your way Super-Shiny, I got 15 ton of gravel up here for about £250, and 15 ton is a lot believe me.
Might struggle to get those smooth pebbles but the stuff I got from a quarry you could buy from home base etc and it would have cost about £1500 there jog on Homebase

[toots]

Why don't you just go to the beach once a day and fill a bag or two up, much cheaper

[DiscoDes]

Get down too Chesil Beach near Weymouth at night with a Flat Bed Transit and help yourself! You'll even be able to choose the pebble size dependant on where you go along it's length.




Opps toots beat me to it!

[Greg]

Might struggle to get cheap pebbles elsewhere but would chippings be any good instead

www.suttles.co.uk/SD-1a-Calculate.html

[Greg]

Aug 19, 2014 19:12:38 GMT Super-Shiny said:

At the front of my house there is a small front garden that i want to just make it look better, i want to dig up all the weeds and flatten the surface ready for a membrane (to stop weeds) and fill the above with these: HB Beach Pebbles Grade 40 Maxi Bags

It says one bag will do: Coverage: 1 pack covers 0.4 sq m

All that 0.4 sqm goes right over my head so can anyone help to tell me how many bags i will need?

Here is a rough diagram of the areas i need to cover:



Maths has and will always be my worst nightmare

Help

The only thing Maxi about those bags is the price tag 

[sleedale]

Can't do the price per.....cos it's needs a postcode, but this lot do the same in bulk bags. Think one would be more than enough, but no idea of the price
link

[Ripshod]

Delete me

[sleedale]

link

This is nearly the same, and 1 bulk bag should easily cover it to a depth of 4cm. They say free delivery.....haven't checked to where! And a bulk bag is £120

A couple of ideas, there are even sellers on eBay