Mainland Aggregates Customer Blog

  1. Top 5 Most Popular Landscaping Materials For Driveways, Pathways, Gardens And Other Outdoor Space

    Decorative aggregates are a popular landscaping material choice for driveways, pathways, gardens and other outdoor spaces. They can be used for a wide range of landscaping projects, from decorative plant borders to pebble mosaic garden pathways. Decorative aggregate's popularity are due to their versatility as well as the large selection of styles ...
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  2. What Is The Best Driveway Surface To Have In The UK?

    Are you considering upgrading the front of your home and wondering what the best driveway surface materials are? Whatever the reason for your driveway deliberation, you’ve come to the right place as we will be going over the pros and cons of each in this post.  Why You Should Consider The Best Driveway Surface To Have In The UK When ...
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  3. Mainland Aggregates Top Cobble Stone For Filling Your Pond

    Picking the right type of rock, cobbles and gravel for your pond – and then using it imaginatively once you’ve made your selection – can make such a difference to the overall look and feel of your garden. When it comes to filling your garden pond if you want a really attractive end result, choosing your cobble stones carefully is ...
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  4. The Best Ways To Fill Joints Between Paving Slabs

    After all the time you’ve spent on your paving, the last thing you will want to see is unsightly gaps taking away from your hard work. Filling in the gaps between your paving slabs might seem like a tedious task, but it can make your patio, path, or driveway look a lot neater and more professional.What To Consider Before you get started with...
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  5. How To Protect Your Driveway From Weeds

    A driveway is an often overlooked area of the home, however a clean and tidy driveway can work wonders for the appearance of your property. Like all surfaces, driveways need care and maintenance to ensure they are looking their best. They need comparatively less work than other surfaces, but they can fall victim to the unwanted visitor; weeds. ...
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  6. Easy Ways To Fill Your Gabion Baskets

    Gabion baskets are steel wire mesh baskets usually filled with stones, that are commonly used in structural engineering for protecting shorelines, river banks and slopes from erosion. They can also be used for a variety of other landscaping features, from unique outdoor seating to natural garden borders. Most gabion baskets, also known as gabion ...
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  7. 5 Ways To Use Decorative Pebbles

    Using pebbles as a way of landscaping is a really easy way of stamping some originality and personality into your al fresco décor without having to use a tremendous amount of artistic ability. It’s a given that some of us have that special flare for decorating, yet for the vast majority we simply don’t possess the vision to ...
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  8. Types Of Sand Available Locally

    If you live near a beach you might think you have easy access to as much sand as you can get your mitts on but actually, did you know you’d be breaking the law to remove sand and stones from beaches? However, it’s lovely to remain true to local roots, so, when in need of sand for garden projects and builds of your own, it is always ...
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  9. Self binding gravel explained

    Gone are the 80s and their pebble dashed buildings with stony, uncomfortable gravel paths, for it may have looked the part (on the path, I think we can universally agree the pebble dashed houses were forever a mistake) but it didn’t half get everywhere! Inside shoes and the cut knees of children falling, not to mention the treading in as it...
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  10. What Exactly Is Railway Ballast?

    A railway ballast is used as a bed for railway tracks. They provide not only stability to the tracks, but also will offer a great drainage system when in place and support for the loads carried by trains running over them. They are very cleverly engineered into place so that they possess another beauty and offer low maintenance by being tricky ...
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