Removing Grass From Your Driveway Spacers

Our driveway is made of exposed aggregate and every 8 feet or so the slabs are seperated by a space. The space is the perfect spot for grass and weeds to grow and grow. The grass doesn’t look too bad, but some people, like my wife don’t like it. And once the neighbours cleaned their spacers, I new it was time for me to clean ours.

You can use this small torch to burn the weeds that grow between the cracks on your driveway.

In the past I’ve removed the weeds and the grass with a screw driver. This isn’t good for the screw driver and is a lot of work. One day I found the special tool pictured to the left that is designed for this job. In case you haven’t seen this before it is basically a torch on the end of a small propane bottle. You use the flame to burn the weeds and the theory is that if you burn the tops, the weeds will die.

This method is a lot more fun and easier than using a screw driver. It’s also a lot quicker and you can do it standing up. But after two years of using this method it doesn’t work too well. The weeds and grass grow back in a few weeks.

Using the tool in this picture worked much better to remove the weeds between the cracks on my driveway.

So a few weeks ago when it was time to do this job again, I found the trusty tool pictured to the right. You use the tool to cut and remove the weeds. It took me a few hours cleaning out the spacers and cracks, but once the job was done it looked great. If you compare the two pictures you can see the before and after of using the special tool. As you can see all of the weeds are gone when using the small tool.

My neighbour mentioned that once he cleans out the cracks he uses a garden hose with an attachment that has more pressure than a normal sprayer, but not as much as pressure washer. The pressure washer has too much power for this job. The small attachment on the hose is great an if you follow up every few months you never have to scrape the weeds and grass out of the spacers…ya!