Lime for roads

[JLSAG05]

Any road builders or anyone have any experience with buying/applying lime to a road, particularly a sandy road.

Building a house and was told in order to get the concrete trucks to my pad, I'm going to need lime before my gravel.

Thanks!

[Shiner]

Limestone. Yep, trucks are heavy, need a road bed

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[lab man]

Lime is used on high PI soils (highly expansive clay soils) to reduce the PI. I've never used it on sandy soils.

[stringmusic]

Fly ash is what we usually use on sandy soils and lime in more heavy clay. Sometimes a blend works good too.

[Greyman]

just have some road base trucked in and spread and roll/compact it.

[slabnabbin]

Lime is used on high PI soils (highly expansive clay soils) to reduce the PI. I've never used it on sandy soils.

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Cement is used to stabilize sand

Usually cheaper to haul fill and add road base than to cement stabilize.


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[Mike Murphey]

I would go to a civil engineer and get the correct scope of what is needed....

[Abctx]

You might read about "soil cement". Usually takes 1-2 pounds of portland cement per sq ft.

[El General]

Any road builders or anyone have any experience with buying/applying lime to a road, particularly a sandy road.

Building a house and was told in order to get the concrete trucks to my pad, I'm going to need lime before my gravel.

Thanks!

Is it really deep sand? If not, what is under the sand? How long and how wide is the road? In Weatherford?

If it is dry, concrete trucks usually don't have an issue with sand unless it is very deep.

I do this for a living, so should be able to help you out if you can't answer the questions.

[Drycreek3189]

I imagine they told you limeSTONE, which is just road base material. If you have to lime/cement stabilize just to build a house, you have bigger problems. A good base to get ready-mix trucks in and out. That will be your heaviest load. Any dirt contractor can help you with that.

[iamntxhunter]

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Cement is used to stabilize sand

Usually cheaper to haul fill and add road base than to cement stabilize.


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This ^^^
Cement stabilization for sandy soil and Lime for high P.I. would like heavy clay.
The rate (%) of application will vary depending on having a test done on the existing soil.

[El General]

You can stabilize anything in Texas with lime. The only reason to use cement or fly ash for soil stabilization is because it is cheaper.

And, even if you stabilize you are going to need road base (limestone or crushed concrete) on top of it.

[lab man]

Another option to look at are geofabrics. You can roll them out where your drive will go and dump your driveway rock on top. They work well in certain applications. In your application it may be cheaper than other subgrade treatments.

[El General]

Another option to look at are geofabrics. You can roll them out where your drive will go and dump your driveway rock on top. They work well in certain applications. In your application it may be cheaper than other subgrade treatments.

Good call. That's why I wanted to know the size.

[Pushbutton2]

http://lime.org/documents/publications/free_downloads/fact-soil-stabilization.pdf

http://www.carmeusena.com/markets/construction/lime-soil-stabilization