Learn how to patch a hole in your driveway the right way using either a cold patch or hot blacktop. The best way would be to use a demo saw to cut the hole square ensuring the edges are as thick as you can get it.
I am a middle aged women..I don't know beans about any DIY projects.. but I find your videos so interesting and informative... Makes me want to fix things around the house by myself for the first time!! Great videos!
Many Thanks for a great tutorial and an entertaining one too! I have been pounding away my anger at the pavement companies that cut corners and screw their customers by putting down less than 3 inches of asphalt.
Dude you make THE BEST videos !! I watch each and every single one of them. You explain everything in clear english with none of that fancy smancy shop talk. Its what what i like best about your video turorials. GREAT JOB :0). Keep em coming !!!!
great video...I run my own landscape company and I'm opening it to handy man/maintenance services because I like doing stuff like this I can't wait for spring so I can start this myself!
Just a note to all. You do not need to rent that enormous saw just to cut out the asphalt, especially with as shallow as his asphalt is, inch and a half. Mine was 3 inches at least. Just get a 7" segmented diamond blade asphalt or masonry saw blade at Ace Hardware or Harbor Freight for $25 and attach it to your circular saw . Tape the guard back and wear gloves, eye protection, ear protection and a dust/paint mask and maybe use a little water spray to keep the dust down. (that was my mistake and everything got covered in dust). Ace hardware has the blades more specific for asphalt. For some reason the big home stores don't. Save yourself a lot of money. Don't worry it cuts through it quickly.
Hey Dom !!! What a Great Professional Job Brother !!! You are the Man !!! Hope Yall are Safe with that Nasty Storm coming my Friend !!! Take Care, Fritz ...
I love watching your videos, Dominick. Funny, educational, interesting. Would it help to use a big torch to cure the new blacktop? Would it help to use one of those vibrating tampers? Should you build it up a little higher to avoid a divot as the material settles?
Have you ever added heat (propane torch) to cold patch to actually make it more like hot asphalt? Im used to buying 1-3T of hot but it really is a pain in the ass to transport all that when you only need 1/4T or so. I also have a power tamper/ all the equipment for working with hot but I'd like similar results as the hot with some of this. Cold patch usually takes forever to really cure which is a pain for foot traffic areas. I was thinking get it good and hot, power tamp and mist with diesel to harden... thoughts?
Nice video. Certainly better than the directions on the bag of quickete. I will have to get a tamper and try it on my 10 x 10' busted driveway. Sounds like a good job for the Hulk!. Hulk SMASH!!
Nice vid. My concrete driveway entrance has a pretty bad slope that scratches the bottom of my car when entering or leaving, I'm trying to fix it myself. Would you recommend an angle grinder? Thanks
Thank you. As we here (Poland) also have some water/ice winter problems and I did not understand what you use to seal old/new asphalt - can you write it, please?
Wow found a lot of videos I like on your channel! Yes!!! Do u have a video also on how to level a driveway that is holding some water in some low spots? The tree roots messed it up... :o/// Thought I saw a video one time on RU-vid of someone pouring some leveling stuff down...but didn't know what it was called or it was on tv. LOL 4:48 awesome!
Hey I like your videoI live on Long Island ny I can't make out the type of saw that u said u are using I can hear it's a diamond blade but can't make out what type of saw u said and how big is that blade I am hoping to rent one this weekend Thanks Doug
i have pretty big area where I want to use cold patch to repair it. Please let me know if cold patch will work just fine for bigger repair than hot patch.
just a little advice to people, if you prep a little patch like that and call a few paving companys to see if theyll litterally throw a few shovel fulls of asphalt in it for you when they are in the area they might do it... 50-75$ they might help you out. also if you prep your own driveway it will save you alot. another option the owner of this driveway could do is to top this driveway. it would add 15-20 years to the life of it.
What do you do if this is on the end of a driveway, where half of the area you see in this video is against the grass and you have allot of water moving through this area when it rains?
Hi Dominic, I work at a state park on a rail trail and we experience an extremely high volume of people everyday and we have multiple areas that need to be fixed. At one location someone decided to start a fire on the trail while they were fishing during the winter. Previous employees over the years (before me) have tried to fix it with poor results. Another area has some tree root damage and has actually raised the blacktop a good inch or two and it goes from one side of the trail to the other and split the blacktop in half. So here are some questions I have for you if you can spare a few moments. 1) By cutting the edges smooth and then filling it in is it more likely that the patch will fail because it's not actually binding to the sides (like adding rebar to concrete) or does blacktop not work that way because of the tar mixture added in with the stone acting like a glue to the smooth sides. 2) How long does it have to set before it can start to experience High foot, bicycle, and rollerblade traffic? 3) How will blacktop sealer help improve the patch? Thank you for your time and video, Gene G.
Maybe its because i do asphalt, but id never recommend cold patch. It can be there for a year, and if you have someone turn their tires on it when its a beautiful 80 degrees, its going to tear up with the same consistency as when you put it in. Go to an asphalt plant, pick up asphalt chunks. The chunks that look like they were fresh black too that they didnt need. Use a propane torch, heat the chunks up and spread them in the hole
So do I. I also know that around here they won't just let anyone get out of their Toyota to pick "some blacktop" up. That's why I make DIY videos. Not to be used by the pro.
+askmediy i hear that. I do alot of side work. Im the dump truck driver for a small asphalt company, i pull the equipment and bring material, so when we clean the paver out, i save the chunks.
Yes, you CAN do it that way, but it will be seriously half-assed, and will not hold up as well as compacting it properly. Even better than these tamping plates is a tamping attachment on an electric hammer (as in a rotary hammer with the rotation turned off, or one of those semi-pro electric jack hammers). The problem with those hand operated tampers is that there is a tendency to only whack each part of the area a few times, whereas with a tamping attachment on an electric hammer, the tamping will happen many more times in a given part of the area, and so it will compact better. In my view, the main reason that cold patch products have a bad reputation with so many people is that so many people apply that product poorly; failing to make clean straight sides, failing to provide a solid and stable substrate, and failing to completely compact the product.
I have several potholes in a commercial drive thur . Will cold mix stand up to constant car traffic? I'm going to try to fix them myself by cutting them out.
They are small. Maybe 2x2. Where the cars continously stop. I have six of them. No contactor wants to deal with that small of a job. They want to rip out the Hole drive thur and start new
That's big for cold patch. Yeah I know what you mean. That's why we do good on doing pot holes. Ask around you should be able to find someone to drop and fill in their time and cheap. Where abouts are you?
