Levelling Driveway

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Hey folks, after a quick bit of advice please. My sloping driveway, which is some form of hardcore base covered in red chips and over time some amount of finer material, like soil in parts.

It is worn in places making it uneven and encouraging wear plus it needs a lot more red chips.

I'd like to level it out a bit before getting more chips.

I'm assuming I need to fill in the low bits and compact properly. Question is, what material should I use to fill in the low points and compact down?

Thanks.
 
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Any soft bits should be dug out.

Material would be hardcore/sub base of some description, whatever you can get locally at a good price. Could be "new" from a quarry or recycled. You want something that has larger angular shaped pieces, all the way down to dust. How deep are the low points?
 
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Here you go. Hard to really show it, but the dark/dirty bits are the troughs. Only a few inches at the most, but because it's on a slope wheels are beginning to spin, making it worse.
 
Your drive has become tired and impervious to water, due to the top layer becoming mucky and clogged. Repairs will have limited success and longevity.

Digging out any low spots and filling and compacting with MOT and generally looking to avoid any ruts or rises so that your motor isn't straining to push the car over any obstacle (like that raied IC cover), will help.

But looking at your drive, you have little in the way of containment and vrtually zero drainage, owing to the lack of granular material thickness. You have an on-going maintenance issue there now. You also must note that gravel drives are a low end product and should be maintained regularly, owing to the migration of gravel, collection of crud and weed growth etc.
 
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Yup, I'd agree with all of that. We aren't in a position to have it lifted and something more substantial put down, so I need to repair it as best I can and then, as you say, put a bit more effort into the maintenance of it.
 

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