VIVOSUN 2’’ Depth Ground Grid, 9x17 ft, High-Density HDPE Geo Cell, 1885 lbs per sq ft Load, Foldable & Tensile, Easy Installation with Gloves, Perfect for Gardens, Driveways, Pathways, Slopes

I have use this product to lay down a gravel floor for an industrial “garage in a box” that I use to hold two motorcycles and some seasonal outdoor equipment, and to create two parking pads for an empty cargo trailer and an empty landscaper’s trailer. The aggregate I’m using is 1A crushed rock, which will never compact. The good news with that stuff is that it drains beautifully. The bad news is that it won’t stay in place, so driving over it is guaranteed to push ruts into the gravel. This terra-grid product holds the gravel in cells, and ruts don’t form. It’s reasonably straightforward to stake it out with rebar J-hooks and to fill it up. I got a couple of helpers to put down the floor of the garage, and I must admit that it’s an easier job with more than one person, but I did the next two trailer pads myself, using the J-hooks first to establish the corners, then stretching it out sideways in four-foot sections using more hooks. That gave me a constantly enlarging solid pad to drive wheelbarrows and my garden tractor on, and I could fill the entire pad four feet at a time. I did find it difficult to keep the front edge of the grid uniformly held down, but that’s partly because it’s hard to drive enough J-hooks into the particular bearing soil I’m dealing with, which has a lot of coarse rock fill already present. Based on the loads I needed to support for my applications, the 2-inch depth is sufficient, but if you want to build a pad for a truck or something heavier, the deeper cells will probably serve you better.

First time using this and I was skeptical spending a good chunk of money on it because of that. I had just moved my horses to a new area and the run in shed we use, flooded so bad and was so so sloppy. Anyone with horses knows how bad they can tear stuff up with their hooves because of how much weight is behind them. Me and my husband spent one afternoon with a box of this and a load of rock dust and made the best, most solid area my horses have ever had. We leveled the mostly dry ground up the best we could, laid down the black material and realized we needed stakes. It would be great if they sent them, but there aren't any included. Made a quick trip to TSC and bought a few bags of garden stakes, then used those to hold it in place. It takes a little doing and you want to make it all as tight and flush to the ground as possible. After it was stretched out a bit, it loosened up and we had to stretch it out more. I expected that, so just moved the stakes. One you get going, it moves easily enough. We started at one end with rock dust, and my husband hauled load after load in the wheelbarrow. We kept smoothing as we went and making sure it was all flush, so there wouldn't be any problems with it rising up or coming loose. We spent all afternoon doing it, but when we finished it was amazing and had about 4 inches of rock dust. It did settle after a few days, so we just kept adding more until it finally got all packed down and was solid. This was back in August, so it's only been a couple months now, but so far it's held up amazing and we've not had any issues. Just do yourself a favor and buy stakes ahead of time and also stretch it out and leave it for a bit then tighten again and get to work. Highly recommend. Would give 5 stars if only they'd have included stakes. It's impossible to get it flush and tight, without a lot of extra frustration in my opinion.

This stuff is impressive. I’ve had it for ages but never got around to installing. I say this bc when I opened the box the item was folded and I thought I’d never be able to straighten it out. I’d open it and it would go back to its folded state. So not a great start on my part. Anyway I start preparing the area; a muddy, weedy spot, 80 square feet, where I keep my garbage cans and such. That part sucks with a shovel. It was a lot of work. I got part of the way there and then laid out the geocell. As I said earlier bc it had been in the box for so long it was a real pain to open and keep open. I ended up using big metal stakes and big rocks to hold it in place. Just an FYI overnight the stretched out material loosened and was much easier to work with. I needed to cut to size which was simple and less of a hassle than I thought it would be. I just used regular scissors. Once cut and laid out I realized I needed a way to contain one of the sides so I had to install a metal edging. The rest of the area was contained by the driveway and a fence. Once in place I added stones to see where I was going. I’m impatient. I started realizing that if I didn’t dig deep enough I was going to see stones through the top of the grid and that would bum me out and look bad. So I needed to keep digging. It wasn’t perfectly even but at a minimum I had 3” of depth all around. I wanted to use pea gravel bc it’s what I have elsewhere but I’d read it moves around bc of the spherical shape and since this was an area where I’m rolling and dragging trash bins I wanted to avoid that. I ended up with a crushed stone. The delivery cost more than the material. Filling the cells took about 45 minutes. I overfilled and then started walking on the to compact it. At one point I drove my car on it for maximum compaction and that baby didn’t move. I was shocked at how sturdy it was. The areas with proper compression are freaking SOLID. It may as well be concrete. I think I’m going to rent a tamper from Lowes and do it right. Or I might not bc I’m lazy. Anyway I’m really proud of the effort I put into this and the result. Now I’m wondering where else I can use it.

Really a good idea and I think it’s do okay but don’t expect to turn your wheels while driving on it as it just rips it up out of the gravel, the skid steer made a mess of them had to cut the ripped sections out. Also I was short on the rivets to connect two together but managed to make do. I’d probably use this for a walk way but wouldn’t recommend for drive way.

I love this product! My gravel driveway kept eroding from the rain, 6" to 10" deep. Installed the grid system 8 months ago, early August 2024, and have only had 1/2" deep x 5" wide erosion, but what do you expect after getting 4" of rain in less than 2 hours. Very happy with the control the grid system has over the rain. It takes some time and work installing it, but not a lot of skill. The skill is in laying it out. A tractor helps with a driveway, you don't need it if you are doing a small sidewalk.