Full-service
Everything required to build the pavement from start to finish, self-delivered and handed over complete.
- Pre-milling, spreading, mixing
- Compaction, trimming and rolling
- Seal coat or asphalt
- One contract, one site supervisor
Services / Pavement works
Gravel road solutions
Most of the road network outside NSW's towns is unsealed.
What it is
Rural councils spend a large share of their maintenance budget grading it, resheeting it, and watching the gravel wash and blow away between visits.
Gravel road stabilisation changes the cycle. The existing gravel, and the top of the subgrade beneath it, is stabilised in place with a binder suited to unsealed roads: lime, a light cement or slag blend, or a dry polymer. The result is a wearing surface that holds its shape, sheds water, resists rutting and corrugation, and loses far less material to traffic and weather.
The maintenance interval stretches from months to years. The gravel that would have been trucked in for the next three resheets stays in the quarry.
What we do
On unsealed roads
Stabilised resheeting
Where a road needs new gravel anyway, stabilising it as it's placed turns a resheet into a pavement that lasts several cycles.
In-place stabilisation of existing gravel
Where there's enough material on the road, no new gravel is needed at all: the existing surface is bound and reshaped.
Polymer treatment
For roads where dust and water are the main problems (mine and quarry access, school bus routes, roads past houses), a dry polymer binder gives a water-resistant, low-dust surface without sealing.
Preparation for sealing
Where a council is upgrading a gravel road to a sealed one, stabilisation of the existing gravel is the base course. Seal on top and the road is done, without importing a new base.
Best suited for
Where it earns its place.
- 01Local governmentCouncils / ShiresUnsealed networks where maintenance intervals stretch from months to years.
- 02Mining & resourcesMining / QuarryMine and quarry access roads that need to hold in the wet.
- 03Developers & private clientsSubdivisions / IndustrialRural property access, farm roads and private roads.
How we work with you
Full-service and part-service
Flexible ways to engage Accurate, depending on your project requirements.
Part-service
Plant and crew for the stabilisation step itself, working to your programme with your own resources alongside.
- Stabiliser, spreader truck and water cart
- Operators who know the plant
- Your compaction, trimming and surfacing
- The specialist step, on your dates
FAQs
Common questions.
01What does it cost a rural council?
The economics are simple. A stabilised gravel road costs more than a grade-and-resheet on the day, and less than two of them. On roads that get resheeted every two or three years, it pays for itself on the second cycle and every cycle after that, and it frees the grader for somewhere else. Accurate's Local Government Procurement approval covers this work. Mid North Coast and Hunter councils can engage through the panel.
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Enquiries, tender requests or specifications
Enquire about your next gravel road solutions project
Call (02) 4942 6100 or send the road and the problem.
Contact Info
- (02) 4942 6100
- quotes@accuratestabilising.com.au
- 66 Kalaroo Rd, Redhead NSW 2290
- Mon–Fri 7:00am – 5:00pm