Chalk floor
- Thread starter onthehoof
- Start date
- Location
- Hampshire
If you're in a chalky area you will get it delivered free, we use it a lot in cattle sheds / cow tracks etc. Get it right and it goes like concrete, get it wrong and it goes like porridge!
- Location
- East yorks
Chalk for free??? We are In a chalk area and pay £10.5 a tonne for it
- Location
- East yorks
This was a shed base before concrete
Tidy shed there how much concrete on the top of all that chalk
There’s chalk and then there’s CHALK
Huge variation
The super white-soft-small lumped stuff round here is ace
The big-lumpy-hard sh!t with a yellow tinge is just that.......sh!t! Waste of time putting it down
Ask around, speak to local digger drivers they’ll, tell you what’s hot and what’s NOT
£11/t ish locally
Huge variation
The super white-soft-small lumped stuff round here is ace
The big-lumpy-hard sh!t with a yellow tinge is just that.......sh!t! Waste of time putting it down
Ask around, speak to local digger drivers they’ll, tell you what’s hot and what’s NOT
£11/t ish locally
- Location
- Wiltshire
Got some chalk floors here. It will go like concrete and makes a good floor. I only need to move a few inches of soil out of the way to get it though so no idea of cost.
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- Location
- Hampshire
Had hundreds of tons delivered free in the last couple of years for cow tracks. Presumably they charge enough to the building site to cover it, and the alternative landfill would cost them. Still getting phone calls wanting me to take more.
- Location
- Hampshire
Why bother with concrete with a floor like that?
- Location
- East yorks
I wanted to be able to do some bigger machinery jobs so put 6" plus structural fibres. If it had just been for straw etc I would have left it.
There seem to be so many variations of ‘chalk’ round here. The best stuff we’ve found to go down tight is almost like a paste when wetted with a bit of water, then whacked down, goes as smooth as concrete. Problem with this stuff is it’s full of flint. Next quarry we try has no flint but the chalk is all hard round stone size of a golf ball which don’t break up when whacked so however tight you put it down the cows seem to manage to scrub it up when used as a cubicle base with a thin layer of straw. Is there a ‘grade’ of chalk for example that has no flint and is soft enough to go down tight? Or any suppliers if such a product?
ollie989898
Member
Some limestones will go down like that, the yellowy stuff seems to make perfect looking cow tracks. Lots of water though and they pot hole eventually.
- Location
- South Molton
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
^^,Will it not lift when you muck it out ,,tyres digging in ,muck fork tines will go straight through it
- Location
- South Molton
I already have a loose house with a chalk floor the tyres don't dig in it they just spin on top I have been very happy with it it though it did raise concerns when I bought the farm
- Location
- South Molton
- Location
- East yorks
Nope it will set like concrete but still allow infiltration. Most of our yard is like that along with the cow sheds.
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- cattle