Geocell panels where you need selectable depth — heavier vehicles, soft subgrade, slopes, or anywhere deep confinement is the point. Roll-form pavers where the loads are cars and light trucks, the area is large, install speed matters and the surface has to be plowable.

3″ for light duty gravel, footpaths and garden access. 4″ is where most residential gravel drives land. 6″ for heavier vehicles, access roads and softer subgrade. 8″ for machinery and the worst ground conditions.

Usually yes, but less of it. The grid does not replace aggregate, it makes aggregate work harder by confining it. Because the confined layer spreads load properly, the same performance generally takes less depth than loose gravel would.

Angular crushed stone. Angular material interlocks and stays put once confined. Rounded pea gravel behaves like ball bearings and works loose regardless of what is holding it, so it is the wrong fill for any stabilizer system.

Not once it is filled and topped off. Both systems finish with a thin layer of aggregate over the grid so the surface reads as gravel. The roll-form pavers additionally come in four colors so any exposure blends with the stone.

The NDS EZ Roll gravel pavers are plowable. With geocell, keep the blade high enough to clear the top of the cells — the grid sits below the finished surface, but a blade set low will find it.

Yes. Both systems stay fully permeable, which is a large part of why they are specified over hard paving on driveways and parking areas.

Work out the area in square feet and divide by the coverage per unit — 179.76 sq ft per EnviroGrid panel, 180 per Cell-Tek panel, 577 per EZ Roll. Add a little for cuts around edges and obstacles.

Geocell is the better choice on any real gradient, because the cell walls physically resist aggregate sliding downhill. Deeper cells hold more securely on steeper ground.

Nothing. Shipping is free on every order, on all depths, colors and quantities.