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Aggregate Typical Uses Chart

Material Typical Uses
 10mm Shingle Pipe bedding / drainage. Can also be used for decorative uses
 20mm Shingle Pipe bedding / drainage. Can also be used for decorative uses

 40mm Shingle 

Oversite fill / drainage 

 20mm All in Ballast 

Added to cement to make concrete 

 10mm All in Ballast 

Pre-cast concrete work

 As Dug Gravel 

Trench Backfill / mass fill 

Grit / Sharp Sand

Screeds / sub base for slab paving & block paving 

 Building Sand 

Bricklaying & blockwork

 Plastering Sand

Plastering (internal) & rendering (external)

 Type 1

Roads & footway capping layer

 Scalpings

Drives & pathway sub base

 75mm Rejects

Soakaways / mass fill

 Crusher Run

Sub base & fill