Ballast query

[soupsandwich]

Someone on here I think, earlier this year, mentioned an aggregate company that produce a fine aggregate for decorative stone and marble type kitchen tops etc
I think it had the name Devon or Devonshire in the Company's title, any one got a lead or info on this. It sounded good stuff.

Of course i may have read it somewhere else !!

Cheers in advance

 

[JimmyB]

Someone on here I think, earlier this year, mentioned an aggregate company that produce a fine aggregate for decorative stone and marble type kitchen tops etc
I think it had the name Devon or Devonshire in the Company's title, any one got a lead or info on this. It sounded good stuff.

Of course i may have read it somewhere else !!

Cheers in advance

Unless you are going to the supplier you may find getting a specific brand difficult. What you need is horticultural grit, this has rough edges, and is normally 3 - 5 mm in size.

 

[dunnyrail]

I was buying some very fine gravel at a place near Ipswich also used by others on this forum. I thinkmit is a dry stone for filling gaps between paviours that may be available elsewhere. Oh I also picked this up at BnQ a few years back, may be available at odd builders merchants near you if you do a webb search. But have a look before you buy as these products can change over time. When I got mine it was very good.

 

[JimmyB]

I was buying some very fine gravel at a place near Ipswich also used by others on this forum. I thinkmit is a dry stone for filling gaps between paviours that may be available elsewhere. Oh I also picked this up at BnQ a few years back, may be available at odd builders merchants near you if you do a webb search. But have a look before you buy as these products can change over time. When I got mine it was very good.
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Organic Minerals - are these animal, vegetable or mineral!!

 

[Gizzy]

Unless you are going to the supplier you may find getting a specific brand difficult. What you need is horticultural grit, this has rough edges, and is normally 3 - 5 mm in size.

Horticultural is is what I'm using too.

Unfortunately I had a delivery of the wrong size of gravel before lock down, which is oversized for the last part of my railway.

So I've used this in non track areas and I've ballasted the track bed itself using the smaller 3-5 horticultural grit....


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[Halcyon]

Here's a range of small scale aggregates in many colours from this company in Derbyshire; resin-bound-aggregate
2 - 5mm on the scale represents around 1.7" to 4.5" so not dissimilar to class sizes for real ballast. If you think this a little big go for 1 - 3 or 4mm which equates to around c1" to 2.7" or 3.5" in scale.