Aquaphalt -- THREE YEAR real world review. Would I buy it again?

Easy DIY Driveway patch product. I used it three years ago on my driveway. // WnW301
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In summary: it's expensive. Very expensive, IMHO. But it works.
Over the years our driveway has sunken a bit where it meets the garage. Replacing the driveway is a lot of money, so instead I decided to build a ramp of asphalt in front of it. It's now three years later, and the ramp is still there, still solid, and has not cracked or had any failures. Not even along the front edge where the repair tapers down to nothing.
So when I wanted to expand the patch, this was an easy choice.
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INDEX
0:00 The Review
0:50 Preparation
1:47 Installation
5:53 Summing Up

[@TokyoCraftsman]

Great product good review!

[@Wordsnwood]

Thanks, Stu!

[@tomkinney3216]

I agree, good value when it lasts and performs well.

[@Wordsnwood]

Exactly why I made the video, thanks!

[@JimE6243]

That was interesting Art! Thanks. JimE

[@Sebastopolmark]

Hey Art, like any good product, "buy once cry once" OH, are you going to have plans available for your asphalt tamper? ?? ???

[@Wordsnwood]

Thanks Mark. I'm working on plans as we speak... 😉

[@LynxSnowCat]

huh? I'll have to look up its material compatibility list/chart. -Is there a maximum gap -to- it can bridge?-
(edit:) The gap I have to fill exceeds the specified _sieve_ size Aquaphalt passes through. Appears to be demonstrated adhering to a sound layer asphalt or concrete, so I _still_ need to (not be lazy and) build up a supporting bed in the bottom of the gap (and probably extract the pseudo-stucco shell).
(...every week;) I've started filling in the gap around my driveway with washed pulverized gravel and sand (donated by the city road works, to my lawn...) to replace the composting debris and weeds. But that patch material might be a better defence against water and ants - Or motivation for me to figure out how to harvest the remaining gravel that the leaf blower and the city's vacuum-tractor-thing didn't.
[our] Builder company used 'something - mud' (I suspect "the new guy" put actual mud into the mix, to dress up the foundations), then [the builder's] warranty company built up a significant grading difference on top of what the builder's left (while re-patching areas they noticed).
Between ants preferring to nest under it and settling pulling the driveway away from the walls. it has peeled off in large flakes around the edges revealing a large gap around the edges.

[@Wordsnwood]

Yours sounds like a more complex issue than mine! Best wishes...

[@LynxSnowCat]

@@Wordsnwood It may not be the best material to fill the horizontal gap; but vertically it definitely looks to be the best option.
I've been putting off fixing it since I hadn't a DIY answer for the vertical component. (Though I'm still hoping that one of the driveway caulking(s) can fix that too...)

[@Martinchox]

wouldn't be cheaper doing with concrete? Cement, sand, gravel.?