BaseCore HD™ 2" Geocell Ground Grid | 6 x 9 ft Commercial Grade Gravel Grid for Driveway, Parking, Slope | Heavy Duty Stabilizer for Landscaping, Sheds, Pathway & Erosion Control - 1 Panel 54 sq ft

Installed in front of farm gate on dirt road. Husband excavated down about 6 inches and put the grid down and refilled with coarse DG. Had problems with rain rutting and uneven terrain but after installation these problems no longer existed. It has held the ground extremely well. We will be installing more now that it has proven durable.We will be using for a residential driveway with DG and pea gravel instead of expensive concrete or asphalt.

The product is excellent. I priced out the cost of building a platform (1 Foot rise) in my back yard for a large fire pit surrounded by chairs using Stone Pavers or just Stone. Both options cost above my budget (several thousand dollars in materials) and that is with me doing to work. I found this Geocell BaseCoreHD™ 2" Ground Grid from Performance Footing and it is about half the cost of other PVC / Plastic based footing grids. for my project I DONT need the strength to park a car on this material. All the other grids were much more expensive because they were for parking cars on top of. When I spread the material out, its like a webbing that has to be streached out and held into place. You MUST buy ground stakes to secure the grids open as you pull the material open across the coverage area. With ground stakes it was very easy to apply across the entire area for the platform. I used dirt from my backyard (free!) and the grids (when filled with dirt) added the strength needed to walk on the platform and the end result was a very even surface. I finished the project with river stone from a local garden center BUT I only need about an inch of stone material to be decorative so that cut the cost of stone in half! Overall this is a great material if you understand how to use it. My platform is good to go and I had 6 friends over (big guys) walking on the platform and nothing shifted. They were all very impressed with the project savings and they could not tell it was a plastic grid system they were walking on. I searched other sites besides Amazon but I could not find a material this thick and this level of quality for a better price. Very happy with the purchase.

I ordered one to test what I was getting. It is made of thick webbing, not a hard plastic. Not a huge package. It looks like expanded metal when you stretch it out. It is flexible enough to go around a biggish curve or through a narrow spot. Just dig/clear the location two inches deep, place the webbing, and fill w dirt.

I'm putting in a paver walkway and have a large slope at one corner and decided to purchase this product to lay under that area for stability. So glad I did. Spread it out, stretched and trimmed to fit the corner and used 6" galvanized stakes to hold in place. Perfect! Then filled with paver base, sand and and a bit of excavated soil to the height I wanted. Definitely recommend and will be ordering more for addressing an area of erosion off the driveway.

This Geocell MAY be a good solution for your project, but I found it to be a nightmare. We installed it twice in an area where we poured gravel into the cells. We learned that you have to be gentle when putting gravel into the cells. The cells will bounce up if you dump gravel and then be too high. The first time, after installation, we found that weeks of walking of the gravel caused the geocell to rise up. It shifted as we stepped on it and gravel shifted under the cells. THERE IS NO WAY TO PUSH THE GEOCELL BACK DOWN! Another lesson learned, we ripped it all up and did it again, this time putting a lot of stakes it. We were pretty happy with the outcome and it seemed really stable. Then, I drove over it with a piece of heavy equipment and accidentally snagged the geocell pulling it up once again. I was so infuriated, I tore it all up and swear I’ll never go near it again. Be warned, this stuff can be good, but it’s way too easy to screw it up.