Driveways & Gravel
Patios & Hard Surfaces
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A Family Business You Can Trust
We focus exclusively on gravel drives and hard surfaces to ensure the highest safety standards. We pride ourselves on being a friendly, local team that delivers professional results every time.
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Standard Treatment
* We accept card payments via a secure link sent with your email invoice. We do not take cash or cheques.
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Gravel Drive Weed Control Questions
We charge £60 to visit and treat using up to 15 litres of herbicide. This will cover approximately 200 square metres. For each further 15 litres required we charge £50. We ask that you pay us by card via the link provided when we issue an invoice via email. We do not take cheques or cash.
A gravel drive should stay weed free for at least two months and often much longer.
To keep control of the gravel, we recommend just one treatment a year will do.
You may have a few weeds appear in August or September. We are not going to talk you out of having it treated a second time, it depends on how deep your pockets are.
Factors effecting the longevity are typically a very wet season, where seeds get a much better percentage of germination.
Most of our customers are domestic but we have a sprinkling of commercial customers as well who like to keep the weeds under control at their premises.
It’s safe for humans and mammals but not aquatic life. We suggest that you stay off the treated area until it dries, which is about two hours. However, it is deadly to lawns, so do not walk onto the lawn for two hours after the treatment.
We are not prepared to enter dangerous situations, such as steep banks or any situation that we deem dangerous.
The plants have to be actively growing, so the window to apply this treatment is from February to November. We would not apply this during the rain, but we know that it works well if it rains after our visit. Our main concern is wind; we cannot spray if it’s windy.
We kill all standing weeds. The pre-emergence herbicide is particularly effective on gravel drives, railway ballast, and soil, but it does not have the same longevity on block-paved drives.
Further Note: We cannot carry out this treatment on a normal lawn treatment round; it is a special request and has to be booked in advance. There is too much that can go wrong if we carry these types of herbicides in a van when we are treating lawns, and I don’t want to have to replace a lawn because somebody makes a mistake.
Yes, we can.
It’s recommended that an old lawn be killed off with glyphosate at least once, about three weeks before a new lawn is laid. This is to ensure that no weeds or couch grasses emerge through the new turf.