Asphalt, Blacktop melt-drip method crack sealing DIY 

I just sealed my cracks using your method ! It was perfect! Thank you!

This is what I'll use, drip method. I was thinking to melt the sticks on a can, and pour in small crack. Your method is direct to the crack.

That's a cool way to seal them cracks! A second pass to catch the holidays is not bad. Have a great week Pm and Thanks for the tips!!

I wish I had seen your video first. I tried stretching the "cord" and placing in the crack and it came out terrible. I'd jamb the sealer in and it would "snake" out as I put the torch to it. The end result of my test crack looked like crap. Afterwards, I just started feeding it in with the torch trailing, similar to soldering. I used this method as well as your drip method and it was quicker, looked better and gave a better seal. As you said, you develop a rhythm as you go along. Thanks for the video!

Thank you this worked well.

Back in the day, there were companies that would pay for a team of 4 guys, to spent half an hour per pot hole. (Basically, like $300 today). We would first melt "tack", which looks to be similar to your product, and heat the cracks, and pot holes. A generous coating smeared into the pothole, was then filled with a hot patch.

If you are a home owner and have lots of cracks and want to do yourself buy the bricks the professional crack sealers use and put in a metal pot above a propane burner and let melt and carefully pour the crack sealant into an application vessel such as a metal watering can and pour directly on cracks and then squeegee with a u or v shape squeegee. Or just hire a professional.

This is *especially* helpful if you're applying in cold temps. If you do it on a hot sunny day and straighten and lay your coils out ahead of time, they will soften up and you can fit them onto the cracks easily and they will stay. But when they're cold and coiled, they are not easy to work with.. at all. Have you experimented with using mapp gas instead of propane for this method? I've always used propane to keep the asphalt cooler, but curious if when indirect heat melt dripping like this it could be a time saver maybe?

If crack is deep can you use sand or polymer sand to fill them top with pli stix

Lots of critics here but hey say do whatever works best for you! I used a similar method because getting this stuff to lay down in the cracks is a pain unless it fits perfectly. I used a similar method but I lay the melted bit right in the crack and drag it along kinda like I’m welding.

Can you use this for sealing around a pothole that was filled?

I tried your method and made an awful mess where the melted tar accidentally touched the lip of the concrete garage floor, and the parging on either side of the garage. I was filling the gap between the garage floor lip and the asphalt drive. The dripping coil of sealant was difficult to hold steady as I uncoiled it with one hand and melted the end of it holding the torch with the other hand. Also, the flame from the propane touch scorched the concert floor and parging, leaving a dark or sooty look. I can hopefully clean the scorched areas using muriatic acid but I have no idea how I'm going to remove the tar splatters from the concrete. What a mess. When I reverted to the conventional method, all went extremely well and left a much neater finish.

where can i get the torch?

where do u get those sticks for melting?

We used this stuff in multiple cracks and it was a waste of time. Hire a professional and let them use their hot asphalt machine to fix cracks. They clean the cracks out correctly and lay the mixture down properly. We amateurs just guess at it and than we go on RU-vid to see how another amateurs does it.

Very similar to soldering

Um no, that seems like an awful method

Very sloppy.