Potholes

[Cassandra]

Or over here as some say, 'Chuckholes'. We don't have that many and I'd never consciously given it much thought until I saw this ingenious way of dealing with it being carried out, by just two 'operatives' (females) with a specially converted pick up truck and a small powered sit on roller. They make the filler up by the roadside from materials they carry and supplies of these are available from storage containers (along the Highways at various stages.

I then realised I'd seen a lot of these 'patches about and they really do work, at a fraction of the cost of traditional un-lasting attempts to perform short term temporary fixes - really a simple job! The two ladies have a franchise from the creator, been at the job 4 years and have never looked back.

Have a look;

Chuckhole soloution

[klondike]

It's an interesting approach. In these parts though there are sections where there is more hole than road over a significant area.

More than £14 billion is now needed to tackle the road repair backlog in England and Wales, according to a new report.
As experts warn of a "pothole plague", new figures show that the cost of simply bringing local roads up to target standards has jumped by 11% in the last year while the gap between actual funding and what is needed has grown even further.

Data from the Asphalt Industry Alliance's (AIA) annual Alarm suvey shows that the gap between what local authorities received and what they said they would have needed to keep roads to their own target conditions is now £1.3bn – a 20% jump over the previous year. It also shows that it would take 11 years just to bring roads in England and Wales up to a standard where they won't keep deteriorating.

https://www.highwaysindustry.com/over-14bn-needed-to-tackle-road-repair-backlog-in-england-and-wales-new-report-reveals/

[dextrous63]

Interesting indeed.  A bit like applying roofing felt.  Wonder what the lifespan of the repair is?

[Michael Rolls]

I was fascinated - especially by the comment that the patch has survived in roads showing 40,000 movements a day - round here, we don't get that many a year! Wonder how the costs compare to 'traditional' methods?

[klondike]

Interesting indeed.  A bit like applying roofing felt.  Wonder what the lifespan of the repair is?

Several of those on video mention "over a year" which may or may not be good. 

One thing I noticed in the first video I saw mentioned heating the existing road surface with a gas torch to ensure adhesion if the the ambient temperature is under 70. This may be good for the US but imposes quite a restriction here. I can't see that a very big patch would be possible using that method when the temperature is much lower than 70. That said road surfaces do heat in the sun. 

I can't see this working in your neck of the woods on many days a year Mike. 

[Michael Rolls]

I'm sure it would be OK in the 14th of July - but not sure which year!    

[dextrous63]

I'd imagine that a standard roofing torch would probably suffice.

It also seems pretty obvious that a key element of the system is that the overlap would protect the naturally weaker perimeter of the hole.