Resin bound stone is a new and effective way of providing a highly aesthetic surface for your home or business premises. It can be installed internally or externally to provide a surface that is both very robust and load bearing, but also fully permeable. This means that any water that hits the surface will freely drain through the resin bound topping and through a ecological grid base system to naturally dissipate in to the water table.
These types of surfaces have an obvious advantage in current times as they are free draining and therefore effectively add to flood risk prevention. A resin bound surface is SuDS compliant and requires no planning permission; an important fact surface water regulations 2008.
Resin bound stone should not be confused with resin bonded stone. Bound means in simple terms, that the pieces of aggregates are firmly adhered together with a highly robust bonding system which has 20% voids, thus allowing water and detritus to pass freely through. In the past, resin bound stone was coated over a variety of sub-bases such as porous asphalt, tarmac or shredded rubber. Whereas these are perfectly acceptable sub-bases, they are not very environmentally friendly, difficult to lay, very costly.
Employing this new innovative grid system ensures a permeably efficient, ecologically sound and aesthetically pleasing driveway installation.