Crushed limestone sub-base, 40mm down to dust. It’s what goes under drives, patios, paths and yards — from a trailer-load off our yard to a 30-tonne artic tipped on your site.
Straight prices, ex VAT. No account needed to order.
| MOT Type 1 Limestone (40mm down)Collected from our yard, any amount | £42.00/t |
| MOT Type 1 LimestoneDelivered on a 20-tonne load | £37.50/t |
| MOT Type 1 GraniteDelivered on a 20-tonne load | £43.00/t |
| Recycled Type 1 (see recycled)Delivered on a 20-tonne load — the budget option | £24.50/t |
All prices ex VAT. Delivered per-tonne prices are for a full 20-tonne load around Hastings & Bexhill; further afield we come back with a firm delivered price within the hour. Small loads on our own lorries are the yard price plus the delivery charge for your zone (£65 / £85 / £100 a trip).
Anywhere you need a hard, stable base that won’t sink or rut.
The standard sub-base under block paving, tarmac, resin and gravel drives. Usually 150mm compacted for cars.
Goes down under the sharp sand bedding layer so slabs stay level for years, not months.
A compacted Type 1 pad under cabins, sheds and greenhouses, or under a concrete slab.
Car parks, access roads, container pads and lorry yards — built up in compacted layers.
Firming up muddy gateways, field entrances and tracks that get churned by vehicles.
Building up low spots and backfilling behind walls or around foundations where you need it to stay put.
Rule of thumb: Type 1 compacts to about 2.1 tonnes per cubic metre.
Measure the area in metres, decide the depth, then: length × width × depth × 2.1 = tonnes.
Example: a 5m × 4m drive at 150mm deep is 5 × 4 × 0.15 = 3m³. 3 × 2.1 = 6.3 tonnes — so order 7.
About 100mm under paths and patios, 150mm under a driveway for cars, and more on soft ground or where vans and lorries will run. If an engineer or the council has given you a spec, go by that.
Lay it in layers of roughly 75–100mm and compact each one with a wacker plate or roller. Don’t tip the lot in one go and run over it once — that’s how drives sink.
Based on about 2.1 t/m³ compacted. A guide, not a guarantee — order a touch over rather than run short.
Price it now online around Hastings & Bexhill, or send us the postcode and tonnage from anywhere in the South East — we’ll come back with a firm delivered price within the hour.
Three ways to get it. Pick the one that fits the job.
Any amount, loose or in 1-tonne bulk bags (+£5 a bag). We load you with the machine at Whitworth Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7PZ. Type 1 limestone is £42/t collected.
Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill, Battle, Rye, Tenterden and Eastbourne. Delivery is per trip: £65 Hastings & Bexhill, £85 Rye & Tenterden, £100 Eastbourne. Minimum delivery 2 tonnes. Tipped loose.
32-tonne 8-wheel tipper (up to 20t) or 44-tonne artic (30t), anywhere in Sussex, Kent, Surrey, London, Essex, Hertfordshire and up towards Cambridge. Instant online price around Hastings & Bexhill; everywhere else a firm delivered price within the hour in working hours.
Type 1 is the bulk of what our trade customers buy. Groundworkers and landscapers doing drive after drive get repeat 20-tonne loads to site, a monthly invoice and one person to ring when the next job lands.
Instant price online around Hastings & Bexhill. Anywhere else in the South East, a firm delivered price back within the hour in working hours.