TRUEGRID | PRO LITE Permeable Paver | Driveway, Grass, Shed Base, Patio, RV Pad, Gravel, DIY Outdoor | 120,000 lb Load Class | All-Weather | Easy Install | Pack of 18 (72 Square Feet)

Absolutely love these! I drive skid steer, mule, F250, lawn mower, wheelbarrow, dolly, EVERYTHING over this and it never budges, crimps, or breaks. Very easy to install. Way too pricey but more than worth it. I filled with peddle stone and it looks amazing. Everyone compliments the path. I bought the cheaper option for an adjacent non heavy weight bearing walkway and it came up almost immediately and trips me on the daily, doesn’t hold its shape and in general is horrible. Pay a little extra and get this awesome product instead. I’m going to rip out the other stuff and replace with this product (at the next sale event!). If I could afford it I’d do my entire driveway! Also doesn’t collect water, drains very well, and is really beautiful.

I purchased this product to construct a patio in place of a hot tub which I had removed--initially I was looking at concrete pavers, but I have 3 mature trees near the spot and the roots are way too dense to dig a conventional foundation. With these, I just graded the site roughly level, laid the tiles down, dumped gravel in, and raked it in, just as advertised. This product, half a cubic yard of pea gravel and a bit of landscape fabric, a wheelbarrow to get the gravel from my truck to the site, and a couple basic tools to spread the gravel really was all that was needed. I wasn't sure what to expect with respect to the surface--I would have imagined that pea gravel would shift underfoot quite a bit, but with the grids in place, standing on it definitely feels very planted. It definitely exceeded my expectations in that regard. The plastic is very thick, and quite sturdy, and the tabs snap together securely but don't require tools to click into place (which is impressive from a manufacturing tolerances perspective). If you need to cut the tiles to make a more complicated shape, you probably can do that, but power tools would likely be required. At about $2.50 per square foot, the price seems steep, but I think they're going to be worth it in the end. Overall, as of the day after the install, I couldn't be more pleased. I'll update the review if that changes, but as of now, it's great.

So far, I have used it in three applications. One was in front of a shop in my backyard where water stood after a rain. I put a layer of white rock, then the TrueGrid Pavers, and filled them with angled black rock. No more water problems, and looks good. Had a number of tree roots I had to work around, and the TrueGrid pavers were easy to fit using a skill saw. The second application was on a walkway to a grill in my backyard. As the walkway approached the deck the grill sat on it sloped down. Problem - this would accumulate water. Put the TrueGrid pavers down, and again cut them easily to fit the form of the walkway. Put rubber pavers over the True Grid pavers. Ended up solving the water problem by lifting the walkway and yet providing drainage since the TrueGrid pavers are about one inch. Used no gravel in these and yet the walkway over them is solid. You would not know the rubber pavers were not on solid ground. The third application was to extend my driveway. Again, the problem was drainage, and in this case, if cars parked there, ruts. I had thought about using regular pavers, but there are are a bunch of roots and I would have had to dig deep enough to make a base of sand for the pavers and the width of whatever pavers I used. Digging down through roots three to four inches did not sound appealing. With concrete, again there is the problem of digging far enough down to lay a good base and use either wire or rebar. Then there is the work involved in mining the cement. Using the TrueGrid pavers I only had to go down one inch, level the ground, lay the pavers on it and fill them with angled black rock. Works perfectly. Heavy pickups can park on it with no. give, no ruts, and yet it allows excellent drainage. Glad I found this stuff. I have some other projects I intend to use it on. Check out their web site for examples of personal and commercial use and it will also give ideas as different ways it can be used. No, I do not work for them nor receive any compensation for this review - it's just good stuff and made right here in the Houston, Texas, area.

As mentioned in other reviews, this is an excellent, easy-to-use product. One word of caution for those laying out an area and computing the number of tiles needed: the product measures 24 inches square, but, when snapped together, you lose about an inch in each direction, because the snap-together mechanism makes the tiles overlap. So figure the installed dimension to be about 23 inches square.

Was able to put a more solid surface down where I take my dumpster out to the curb. As always, it was a quick installation and works for what I wanted it for.