Made in the UK from 100% recycled polypropylene
Made in the UK from 100% recycled polypropylene
X-Grid
Choose a finish and explore build-ups, applications and technical guidance for your project.
Confine angular aggregate in a robust cellular structure: firm, rut-free paths, landscapes and parking that stay free-draining.
Support turf where a natural look and occasional or managed vehicle access both matter — overflow parking, campsites, amenity land.
A 93% open structure carries surface water into the build-up below, supporting SuDS-conscious external works.
Which surface, which problem
Start with the failure, not the product. A gravel surface that ruts, scatters and needs re-levelling every season is a confinement problem — the gravel stabilisation page explains how cells hold 10–20 mm angular stone still under wheels. A lawn or overflow area that balds and churns to mud after a few passes is a shear problem — grass reinforcement covers establishment, mowing and wear. A surface that puddles or overwhelms the drains on every wet day is a drainage problem — permeable paving sets out how an open-cell build-up receives water by design.
Each solution page follows the same shape: the mechanism in plain terms, the build-up that makes it work, and the honest limits — the loads, slopes and ground conditions that belong with the technical team rather than in a generic guide.
Common ground
Whichever finish you choose, the surface only works if the layers beneath it do. All three X-Grid solutions sit on the same discipline: a subgrade prepared and, where necessary, separated with a geotextile; a free-draining sub-base compacted in controlled layers and sized to the traffic; a bedding layer where the guidance calls for one; the interlocked panel grid; and an infill — angular gravel or a rootzone and seed — filled flush and slightly proud. Change the infill and the maintenance routine and you have moved from one solution page to the next; the engineering below the panel is identical.
That is why the specification advice matters more than the product choice. A driveway that ruts, a car park that muds over and a path that puddles are three symptoms of the same cause — a build-up matched to the finish rather than to the ground and the load. Start from the ground and the traffic, and the finish is the easy part.
Honest limits
Ground reinforcement solves confinement, load spread and drainage — and nothing else. Where the requirement is a genuinely impermeable, high-abrasion surface, tarmac or resin-bound paving is the right material and no grid will change that. Where ground is soft, wet or made-up to the point that it cannot carry the design load even after sub-base improvement, the answer is a geogrid or an excavated solution first. And where traffic is constant heavy plant rather than occasional or domestic use, the sub-base design, not the panel, decides whether the surface survives.
None of that is a reason to avoid a grid; it is a reason to specify it in the right place. If you are unsure which side of the line your project sits on, the technical team would rather tell you to use something else than sell you a system that will not perform. The configurator is the quickest way to see which of the three solutions fits, and where the questions it cannot answer need a person.
