I seen some contractors use ground up/recycled asphalt that was pulled up from other work sites. Instead of using crushed stone or other aggregate, they use this reclaimed asphalt. Is this an alternate way of putting down a base for new asphalt to sit on? I use to deliver construction materials of all kinds, and every job site that waited to get my turn to unload, I watched dump truck after dump truck, unload stone. My question pertains to residential building, not commercial. Great site by the way.
Nice video I just had my driveway done just like this. But I haven't put any sealer on it like you did. But I'm curious about putting sealer down later on. My driveway is closed to 600ft long with a hill on part of it.
Fillings are very fresh from the asphalt plant they will never go anywhere as long as they are installed correctly milling's can hold up to 5 to 10 years
Haven't use reclaim. They say the best method is to have it ready and spray it before for a 90 degree day, spray the reclaim with diesel and compact it the following day for the do it your DIY. You can use a vibrating compactor.
Millings is Zero maintenance because they literally wont go anywhere. All we reccomend is to spray it every 2-3yrs again to help keep oil and tar in millings
@@sherrimullen3396 Not saying it dosent work. But we have always used oil-based and have never had issues. Oil-based is a penetrating sealer and water based is just a surface sealer.
Now spray some diesel or kerosene on it and let the sun work on it. It will tighten up much better. For the price of this, I would have paid the extra for hotmix.
What if you let someone put "asphalt" on your long driveway only to find out after that it was only millings? Can I do anything to make it usable and to where it won't track into the garage or house?
I mean that sucks. But what we do is compact them with a asphalt roller like you do asphalt and we apply the harder its a mix of Deisel fuel and asphalt oil based sealer. it helps harden them for less tracking but we have never really had issues with tracking in the past so not to sure.
ive done it for years it depends on the base being applied to, but american 50/60 cents a square foot is a really good price if its laid at 4inches compacted with 3tonnes or more.
also recycled will have pebbles, like rock debris that comes up, what i genuinely liked to do was roll it and let the customers drive on it but alternate there driving postitions for equal compaction as they continue to drive, 1 year down the line it will look rough but it will be durable so a sealcoat would definitely help make it look better because they do look fade after awhile
also dont fall into the belief that this is going to be looking like that forever, i have done a job though which requires different aggregate then he had that does actually replicate asphalt
Hammond indiana I put asphalt millings on my yard but inspector wants me to get an environmental impact study to test the millings are safe. Anyone had idea if millings are dangerous or I have a inspector that is just talk bs.
It is recycled asphalt. It is asphalt that has been milled off an existing road and milled again and/or screened for size consistency. No real difference from the roads towns, counties, states, and the federal government have laid all across the country.
some agency's around the US are looking at millings from an environmental stand point now. Do they pollute ground water? Do they pollute the ground? We have to protect all catch basins with witch hats when we mill. The water run off from our milling piles at our plants has to be collected as sewer waste, storm waste. Get ready for it, because it is coming. We have one plant where the jurisdiction wont even let us use RAP in our plant due to environmental concerns
Maybe an OCD but that guy on the roller did a shitty job on the far end corner, I can see the raised lines yet, he should have rolled them down they stick out like a soar thumb
I noticed they miss some spots. I know if I was a contractor I would make sure that everything gets smoothed out and everything would have to be as level as possible.
It's asphalt millings some contractors dont even roll in the product or spray a hardener. this stuff gets harder on its own it doesn't need help. But Rolling it in and spraying a Hardner helps it out a bunch
also if your rollers rolled like that with hot asphalt your stuff would look terrible :/ i seen horrible lines thru that on recycled, i get it will pack during people driving on it but cmon...
