Vodaland - 4" GeoCell - 100% Permeable for Parking Pads, Retaining Walls and Erosion Control, Size 9 ft x 17 ft

I love this product. I was going to install a permeable paver parking pad for my camper van before I realized how expensive and labor intensive it was going to be. Other products designed specifically for this purpose were unaffordable. But this geogrid did everything I needed it to and saved me more money than it cost to buy two sheets!I excavated 6” and tamped down a shallow layer of #57 angular limestone with no dust, then stretched the geogrid and anchored with 12” rebar stakes (which was overkill). To join two sheets of the product, I trimmed one sheet’s terminal sections so that I could overlap them precisely onto the other sheet’s ends, and then zip tied them. It worked like a charm. The grid was easy to cut with tin snips, and wasn’t as hard to stretch out as people claim. A partner definitely helps, but it isn’t impossible to do on your own. We did the grid and gravel moving in one day.The parking pad looks amazing and is everything I hoped it would be! I’m so grateful for this product. However, the frustration it took to get accurate and consistent information from Smartartpark for planning my project unfortunately dropped my review one star.Nowhere on the website are there detailed installation instructions. It’s basically “get a beer, stretch it out, fill with gravel, yay!” You’re never told exactly what kind of gravel you need—should it have fines or not? Should it be limestone only or will crushed concrete work? How many stakes do you need? Where exactly do you need to anchor the stakes? etc.You see the seller answers questions here, which is nice, but the answers are wildly inconsistent:“Any gravel will work!” and then “You need 3/4” or larger gravel!”“You can use any thickness of our product for a parking pad!” while on one tiny part of the website you finally see that the 2” grid isn’t suitable for parking.“You don’t need to have a base layer of gravel for parking!” and then “A 2” or so gravel base is a great idea!”No consistency or clarity on the number of stakes you need, what kind, why you would choose one kind over the other, etc. The one place I did see an estimate for stakes answered by the seller, it wasn’t nearly enough in the end, but it was also completely unnecessary to use expensive rebar J-hooks as was suggested.Get your answers straight, Smartartpark! For careful planners who are trying to get all their ducks in a row, you have the power to make planning, buying, and installing your amazing product completely hassle-free!I was so irritated by the unprofessionalism and lack of attention to detail in the seller responses/product documentation that I almost didn’t buy this product. I’m really glad it didn’t hold me back in the end. What I do hope is that this review encourages the seller to do some quality control on their question responses, website copy, and product documentation, and present clear and consistent information across all of it.

Used this over landscape cloth in a horse pasture. VERY easy to install, cuts easily with branch clippers to shape as needed. I used bailing twine instead of metal anchors because it is in a horse paddock so if the gravel/dirt erodes I didn't get a metal object protruding. I'm a little 66 year old woman and did this project by myself. My paddock area is about 300 sq ft and the project took me about 5 days in total from measuring to laying the base layer to securing the geo grid and then moving the gravel with a 4 foot bucket from the pile left by the truck. As i filled the grid with gravel, I could immediately ride the tractor over it to fill the next area because the grid is that strong. That part went very quickly. The most time consuming part of the project was tying the geo grid together so that it was all connected and stable, but certainly easy enough! I already ordered more and am doing areas through my horse gates that get trampled down and become muddy messes. Using this instead of hard geo grids, I was able to follow the lay of the land without the need to level everything, therefore not impeding the flow of rain water. I highly recommend this product!

We opted for this particular geocell product for best price by far for a lower “grade” geocell —ie, we aren’t parking or driving on it. We also had to work around the footings for our pergola, and felt this product gave the best ease for that — although it meant when installing,, we had to open up the product in a way that created wide cells — if possible, adjusting length to width pull to create narrower, longer cells would be, I think, stronger. We opted for rough gravel up to about an inch below the cell top, then covered with more expensive beach pebble (pic is before we put down all the beach pebbles and we have now mostly covered the cell edges). I did use landscape staples to secure the geocell at every join point and as needed for combining pieces of geocell. Highly recommend doing that.Been enjoying our patio for a few weeks now, and very happy with how the geocell functions. We did end up putting down some outdoor runners under our chairs to prevent them sinking into the gravel.We plan on adding more geocell (the square tile type though, for ease of uniformity) around the perimeter of the patio to extend and give overall support to the existing patio where our yard grading requires a bit of additional erosion control. We really love the flexibility geocell provides to do our yard in stages as budget and energy allow (we are empty nesters and physically more interested in methods we can still manage ourselves). Happy to recommend this product