How to fix a pothole?

[thinfourth2]

The private road up to our house is pretty bad with a few enormous potholes

Now which is the best way to fix these

I have not much in the way of digging equipment but the nieghbour has a JCB and a road roller, i have a landy and trailer

So what do i need to fix the holes?

[bridgdav]

http://www.potholerepair.net/

[matt 2LT]

you can this ready made tarmak stuff, just shove it in the hole, then use the roller over it, and should do the job.

im sure most big builder merchants should sell it.

[allegro]

Pretty sure you can buy bags of tarmac to make such repairs. Not sure how long it will last but in theory if its tamped down well and maybe seal the outer ring with bitumen it should be ok. (if its a deep hole maybe put some well copmacted stone chipping down first)

[elanfan]

There was a guy who 'invented' a pot hole repair system that involved pouring a bag of his mix into the pothole and leaving it slightly proud and the traffic pushed it down. His product was unlike what the road repair teams seem to use as his system actually worked. Quite why it has taken off I don't know (I'm starting to recall it was on some TV programme - might not have been Tomorrows World but was something like that.

Have also seen in my local Travis perkins premade up bags of whay looks like Tarmac branded as a pothole filler.

If you are going to go to the trouble of ripping up what youve got why not go the whole hog and block pave it?

[thinfourth2]

elanfan said:

If you are going to go to the trouble of ripping up what youve got why not go the whole hog and block pave it?

My old house the 2 car long driveway cost about £2k to block pave it

How much do you think a mile of block might cost?

[ewand]

A few years ago, my neighbourhood's shared driveway had a big, deep pothole, partly caused by bin lorries sitting at that point when they were loading up. We took the bin lorry company to court and they eventually paid 50% of the repair costs - it worked out about £850 to dig out the hole, then fill it in with tarmac, seal it off etc. It's still in good shape after 4 years so he must have done a good job... but ouch...

[Rouleur]

I had a similar problem on a short section of the track past my house. As I didn't want to spoil the look of it with tarmac I scraped out the holes to a solid base, filled the deeper ones with rubble/bricks etc, then over filled with mixed-sized MOT aggregate. If you run a whacker plate over it after adding the rubble, then again after adding the MOT, and then finally wet it then it should end up smooth and tough.

As soon as any areas start to form depresions then just top them up.

[Moley RUFC]

Best bet is Fosroc XR45. Open to all traffic in 45 minutes, bet then I would say that I work for them! Just mix with water. Costs about £12 a bag from Buildbase/Travis Perkins

[PurpleTurtle]

bridgdav said:

http://www.potholerepair.net/

Holy thread revival Batman! I've got some potholes to repair in a tarmac driveway, this stuff looks to be just the job.

In the UK it is now sold as https://www.ezstreetasphalt.co.uk/

I will give it a try in the next week or so and see how I get on. The actual tool to flatten it (a hand tamper, fnarr fnarr) is more expensive than the asphalt itself, but I guess I will get more use out of it over the years.

It's only a couple of 6in wide potholes which will get worse if untreated but I can't really justify the expense of hiring a whacker plate so will have to do it by hand.