HOW TO: Blacktop Driveway Pothole Repair 

LOL... glad you noticed! The fancy, store-bought metal one I had was too wide for the job, so that former wooden post hole dirt tamper filled the bill.

Thanks for the input, I added some other follow-up comments on this project below, but will add that the "height" of this patch worked out well, not too high or low. Now that this patch fully hardened and cooler fall weather is due, it's time to think about seal-coating this patch and the surrounding cracks.

In doing patch jobs like this. How can i calculate the job . they are providing the material.

@@Anthony-bl5rm just charge them $50 an hour

You are very welcome

Thanks for sharing! I had to redo that pothole repair after our brutal freeze-thaw winter of 2021-22, using the same techniques as the first time, so we'll see how long that lasts. The driveway has so many cracks now, that sealing them just about covers the entire driveway. LOL

@@bobscaping .......yup always something....have you tried " gator patch ".....I haven't.... but some I've seen gave and liked it... cheaper than ripping it all up.... Have a great day Bud 👍!

You're welcome!

You're welcome!

Thanks for the tip!

Thank you for all your comments. This pothole patch has actually held-up extremely well (need to do another follow-up video I guess). The patched area and the entire driveway were sealed a year later, as you recommended, and it's due again in September/October before the leaves fall, especially since it was skipped last year. Sunken "ruts" in the two tire track areas clearly prove your point -- that a better stone base is needed -- of course running heavy trucks over it daily for years sure didn't help! I've been sealing it every year or two, throwing on $100 bandaids so to speak, to avoid spending the thousands of dollars you mentioned. No plans to change that strategy yet! Latest investment was a Tesla solar system for the roof, which lowered our last electric bill to $7, even with car charging and heavy AC use in 80 to 90 degree weather. Thanks for watching the Bobscaping channel.

That product seemed to keep pretty well with the bag tightly closed for storage. That patched area stayed rather soft for longer than I expected, and I waited a full year before applying asphalt sealer. BTW, that patch is still holding up very well.

Roger that! Just preparing to upload the latest asphalt sealing video of "this old driveway", spent part of two days on it, and can barely walk, charley horse, etc! LOL

New asphalt sealing video now live with a fresh look at this pothole repair: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-09tF7fXJhLk.html

This product did stay soft and sticky longer than expected, so the solution was adding more grit on top of the patch, and driving around the repaired area for one week.

Correct. It needed to fully "cure" and harden before it could be sealed along with the rest of the driveway, and here is a follow-up video prior to that work being completed: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oboq8broLQU.html

Do you think it would take you half a day (4 hours?) If so, multiply that times your hourly rate.

...and we know potholes, eh!

They're looking for snowplow drivers here in PA

Just got done repeating that procedure on that same area since winter here was pretty harsh.

LOL.... harder to breath when bending over with a big stomach!

That patch has actually held up very well.

Any suggestions as to how to improve this example? Or just a useless comment on your part?

This patch has held well and it's that time of year to apply some asphalt sealer to that area and others.

Even though that asphalt patch material stayed soft longer than I expected, it finally cured to a very solid repair.

Great idea, will work on doing that. In the meantime, a follow-up report... This product stayed "soft" much longer than I expected, it took a month to fully harden, which would be much more of an issue with a larger patch. It looks great now, has held well so far.

Agree. I used a similar product a few days ago and it's still fairly soft. Guess I'll have to wait the 30 days to fully harden.

Jonatan - I just posted a follow-up video on this repair: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oboq8broLQU.html Thanks for watching BOBscaping on RU-vid!

Follow-up video on this driveway repair has been posted: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oboq8broLQU.html Thanks for watching BOBscaping!

Hello Jack, I just posted a follow-up video for you to see how well this blacktop pothole repair has held up: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oboq8broLQU.html Thanks for watching the BOBscaping Channel on RU-vid!

@@bobscaping lots of trolls and hecklers on here. If they could do better they should be making their own video!

Ha, must be a holdover from my younger days when our boss at the gas station had us sweep out car interiors with a whisk broom after we washed them. Just to date that further for you, gas was 35-cents a gallon!

... I just like the sound of shop-vac sucking up such debris. Now I have to search for "shop vac sucking up debris" video.

Even though this patch material remained soft longer than I expected it has hardened to a nice patch that has held very well.

Still looks good after a harsh 2017-18 winter!

$100 for 3.5 gallons. Yeah no thanks.

@@NytronX The Sakcrete US cold patch product was second to Aquaphalt in consumer reports and is much cheaper. The product that was used here was not even mentioned.

I hear you... sold my metal tamper long ago, but it would have been too wide.

@@bobscaping The digging bar with tamper on the other end would be the way to go if you insist on doing it this way, but it should be dug out squared off and tamped properly.

My pants were probably too tight (-;