Gabion Stone

We deliver all bulk bags on a pallet using a tail-lift lorry. The driver will lower the pallet onto a flat, solid surface like your tarmac or concrete driveway using a manual pallet truck.

Please note that tail-lift lorries cannot crane or hiab the bulk bags over garden walls, fences, or across soft grass and gravel driveways. Delivery is strictly curbside or driveway offload.

The easiest way is to use our Gabion Stone Calculator. As a rule of thumb, 1x 850kg Bulk Bag equals roughly 0.6 m³ of volume.

That is enough to fill:

• x6 small baskets (L97.5cm x D45cm x H45cm)
• x2 medium baskets (L150cm x D97.5cm x H45cm)
• x1 large cage (L97.5cm x D97.5cm x H97.5cm)

If you are filling a large wall, 1 cubic metre (1m³) requires roughly 1.6 to 1.8 bulk bags.

Our stone is graded between 63mm and 200mm depending on the type (sieve size), with individual stones up to 250–300mm long, sized for 75mm mesh. Each bag includes some smaller stones; place these in the middle of the basket, not against the mesh.You need angular stone sized 80mm to 250mm. Because standard gabion baskets have a 75mm x 75mm mesh opening, any rock smaller than 75mm will slip through the wire gaps.

It is freshly quarried. The process of taking the stone out of the earth creates dust that covers the rocks.

Don’t worry, once you’ve filled your baskets, give them a quick spray with your garden hose to wash off the dust and reveal the natural colour underneath.

Alternatively, the rain will wash it off naturally.

Tipping stone straight from a wheelbarrow creates large empty pockets and puts uneven pressure on the wire joints.

For a neat, straight-edge finish, hand-pack the visible front face by placing the flatter sides of the rocks tight against the wire mesh. You can then fill the hidden middle area behind the front row using a tipping method.  Be careful not to cause too much shock against the mesh; otherwise, you may cause the wires to bulge.

For standard garden retaining walls under 1.5m high, you do not need a poured concrete foundation.

Gabions are flexible, free-draining structures. Simply dig away loose topsoil down to firm ground, level the trench, and compact a 10mm–30mm sub-base of MOT Type 1 or hardcore to stop the heavy baskets settling unevenly over time.

Yes. A popular cost-saving method used by trade builders is “Face-Packing”.

Hand-stack attractive rocks along the front face that people see, then place a Backfilling Panel inside the cage to separate the front face. You can then fill the hidden rear section with cheaper crushed concrete, bricks, or hardcore rubble. This cuts your decorative stone costs by up to 50%.

You can also use local stone or rubble bags, please watch the video below for more details