Cost of creating a 100metre road for a farmhouse just good enough for access to make the house mortgageable??

[Dylan121]

Cost of creating a 100metre road for a farmhouse just good enough for access to make the house mortgageable??

 

[Yale]

2 days with a 15 tonne machine to strip the soil off at a guess. £800- £1000.

Minimum 100mm of hardcore 3 metres wide (insufficient but serviceable), 3 running metres to the cubic metre. Approx 33 cubic metres of hardcore at 2 tonne to the cubic metre. Call it 80 tonnes so 4x8 wheeler truck loads. Be about £25/tonne delivered maybe. £2000.

£800- £1000 to lay the hardcore.

So ballpark about £4k. Could be a little less or a lot more.

If there is stone that can be dug on site it would be better as it could be laid 30-40 cm deep.

 

[Yale]

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[Still Farming]

Long bank holiday weekend is it????

 

[Kidds]

3 metres wide (insufficient but serviceable)

Building Control require 3.7m for Fire Engine access.

 

[Still Farming]

Building Control require 3.7m for Fire Engine access.

But if no planning or original access different possibly??

 

[Kidds]

But if no planning or original access different possibly??

And if the mortgage people are so interested in it they will ask the question.

 

[onesiedale]

railway sleepers.
400 @4 per metre 2.4 m wide
800 @ 8 per metre 4.4 m wide
probably get them for £13.00 delivered
2 days to lay
zero maintenance thereafter.
....you could even remove them after mortgage granted

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Talk to @glasshouse for field picked stone
SS

 

[Nearly]

railway sleepers.
400 @4 per metre 2.4 m wide
800 @ 8 per metre 4.4 m wide
probably get them for £13.00 delivered
2 days to lay
zero maintenance thereafter.
....you could even remove them after mortgage granted

Put a line of sleepers down each side. It finishes them nicely.
Inlaws have 1 wide and 1 down each side.
3m wide road.
500m long.
Back when they were free and haulage was £3.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Put a line of sleepers down each side. It finishes them nicely.

Great idea!
I will add that after reading the header I did wince in the word ‘just’
In making a good roadway there is no such thing as just, big time!
SS

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Impossible to quote without seeing it
I dug my own stone out so just the cost of my fuel ,wear and tare and my time, on another job i had to bring stone inba £24 ton , a lot depends on how stable the ground is , so you know how much soil to remove and does it need ditching to deal with surface water

 

[essexpete]

So many variables. soil type, gradients, local availability of recycled aggregates. On clays around here I might use clean 20-40mm crushed concrete to 150mm over a membrane. Then top with a further 100mm plus of road planings. If the ground does not lay wet, you could do 200mm of planings over a membrane. You could use MOT type 1 spec crushed but it can turn mucky if any water hangs about. If the track is not on a steep slope you could top with 20mm clean stone (only requires a light dressing), that might reduce dust in the summer. The track really needs to be 3m wide with a slight camber or side slope, depending on the falls, to stop water damage. Any skimping is a waste of time IMHO. Aggregate companies will be able to give you a clue as to volume per tonne.

 

[Nearly]

Great idea!
I will add that after reading the header I did wince in the word ‘just’
In making a good roadway there is no such thing as just, big time!
SS

behold, the giant xylophone.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

behold, the giant xylophone.

Looks good

 

[Dylan121]

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Seems I may have to re-think
How depressing it is to deal with picky lenders. :-/

 

[Nearly]

I think it just finishes the edges off and makes it a touch wider.

 

[puppet]

Building Control require 3.7m for Fire Engine access.

That is 12 feet, wider than a trunk road! And a turning circle if they need to reverse more than 20m.
As I have found to my cost. You wonder if any are actually trained to drive the bliddy thing.