Bunnings have dropped the prices on various 10kg garden pebbles by ~50%.
Thanks to Aldi of course
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/special-buys-sat-30-…
Natural charcoal:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/tuscan-path-10kg-20-40mm-natural…
White:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/tuscan-path-20-25mm-10kg-snow-wh…
Mixed decorative:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/tuscan-path-10kg-20-40mm-mixed-d…
This deal made me reminis the day Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm got married.
Damn I have 8 bags ready to put down tomortow that I got a few weeks ago…hmm lugging 120kgs back to Bunnings for refund then buy same bags again? Is the OB way I guess.
Edit:phew the ones I got aren’t on sale. Just checked.
Even if they are the ones on sale, can't you just buy new bags and then immediately refund using the old receipt?
True ozbargainer
Skill
$1,000 per/ ton..
Local landscape suppliers sell em $30 for 10kg
Mr Bunnings says 'Shush!"
$10 is less than $30
No need, just buy a tonne for $240 from local landscape supply. 10kg is just few pebbles, hardly covers anything.
The stuff you get from the yard will not be as good quality, mixed with dirt and many will be cracked. Not that these wont be the same, i'm not sure.
Think a bit more than that. Especially for white ones.
Anyone know what area 10kg would cover?
Fairly sure upwards of 50kg to a sqm..
The Bunnings pebble special order brochure says 1 ton per 14sqm for 50mm thickness.
So 1 ton isn't even 1 cubic meter? So this is over $1000 per cubic meter? Landscaping places wouldnt charge much more than $200-300 for a cubic meter.
1.3t to 1.7t = 1m3
Anything landscaping is typically way way way cheaper bought by the literal truckload than bagged.
Thought about doing that when I made small garden bed but factoring things like the wheelbarrow, the excess, shoveling time, etc. I just ended up getting bags of soil anyway …
Not everything has the same density as water.
Rocking deal.
So are these pebbles manufactured through some process?
get a bunch of rough rocks and sand and water, put it in a big rotating container for a while and you get this.
That's good value if you need to rock some roofs.
Rock solid deal
$100 per m3 at a landscaping joint. Rocks in your head if you don't just go and get 0.25m3 in your tray or trailer instead.
Depends how much you need. Do the landscaping places have a minimum?
My local has 0.25m3 minimum
Wow that’s cheap our local yard is like $250m3. I’m doing a small garden only 1.4m2 so a few bags was easy for the job. Did a massive garden previously in white rock used a Ute for that one. Just comes down to what you are doing.
https://www.cansand.com.au/
I paid $92 for the last ones I used in my garden but maybe the equivalent here is the $120 range.
Nah maybe for drainage gravel
Do I need underlayer before laying the pebbles?
+1
How to make it so it doesn't grow any weeds?
Yes U should remove any weeds and plants and apply a weed mat/membrane before putting down ur pebbles otherwise weeds can grow between even at high depths of pebbles. Lots of YouTube vids on it. Search "how to lay pebbles" for more detail. Also depends on what ur using pebbles for. E.g. pebbles used for walking path shouldn't be those polished pebbles or super large types as they can be slippery.
Weed mats are cheap too!!
Layers upon layers of old Amazon cardboard boxes are even cheaper :P
I've always had weed matting eventually break up, or enough dirt builds up over time on-top enough for weed seeds that blow in to grow regardless.
@donkeydoc: Only just smothering, blocking the light. Not like weeds need much fertile soil to grow anyway.
Thanks helloeverybody
Is it the same concept for laying bark? I need to take care of weeds first?
Same concept for bark, just a different look. Don't do it for mulching.
Many other options too, weedmatts are just cheap and easy. Herbacides, solarizing, steam wands, hand pulling frequently, etc.
Cheers OP
Awesome for aquarium!
I use the charcoal ones for rock painting. Give em a good wash and come up nicely.
Bunnings are (profanity)!
Cheaper here? Less than $15 for a 20kg bag
https://www.soilworx.com.au/shop/bulk-and-quarry-products/pe…
Not by the time you add on delivery.
At my work we sell pebbles in 20kg bags. 75 bags = 1 cubic metre. So you'd need 150 x 10kg bags to make a cubic metre. Stone is around about 1.4 tonne to the metre. A 10kg bag wouldn't go far at all.
As for buying in bulk, they look like polished pebbles. Polished pebbles aren't sold in bulk, because they get scratched & chipped n people complain. You can't buy bulk pebbles that look like this. It's actually a really good price. Sure you can buy other pebbles cheaper in bulk but a lot of people want this smooth shiny look that u can't get in a bulk pebble.
To work out how much you need, multiply length by width by depth, eg if you want 5cm deep, and it's a 1m square area, 1m x 1m x .05 = .05 of 1 cubic m. 150 bags is 1 cubic m, so .05 x 150 = 7.5 bags.
As for weedmat, yeah it breaks down quick if you get the rubbish stuff, but if you get the good cloth one it works really well. Cardboard is a great mulch, as it breaks down it feeds the soil, so it's initially good at blocking weeds but then becomes weed food. But can be used in combo with good weedmat if u want to cultivate the soil underneath (eg you're going to add plants later, in which case I'd also add a layer of composted material). Poison or dig out all weeds 1st, compost then cardboard/paper if putting in plants, then weedmat over the top, then pebbles. If poisoning weeds and you are planning on putting in plants, will need to wait a few weeks after poisoning before planting anything.
Weed seeds will still blow into the top n grow (especially if things like leaves decompose on top), but they're much much easier to remove as they're only growing on the surface. Digging out weeds from between pebbles if there's no weedmat is pretty rough on the hands.
Care to share any good weed mats?
Sorry I only just saw your question.
Something like this: https://www.bunnings.com.au/pillar-0-9-x-10m-brown-eco-weed-…
Or this: https://www.bunnings.com.au/pillar-1-8-x-10m-grey-geotextile…
I'm not suggesting getting these particular brands, just giving you an idea of what I mean. Your local nursery/ landscape supply will likely have it, and it might even be cheaper. We sell a similar product for less without the fancy name where I work.
Not bad aye