How to Repair an Asphalt Walkway | This Old House
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares a fast fix for ruptured paving. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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-pack, stone and stone-dust mixture [amzn.to/2zTD2Tx] used to fill trench
- two 2x6s [amzn.to/2Lnit8L], used as forms
- 1/2-inch-diameter x 24-inch-long rebar [amzn.to/2NMGWWC]
- asphalt cold patch [amzn.to/2ZRRhCS]
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- pointed shovel [amzn.to/2ZPBjJB]
- pruning saw [amzn.to/2MV9ugZ]
- electric chipping hammer [amzn.to/2ZPS2N1]
- 10-pound sledgehammer [amzn.to/2Lm6Fnb], used to compact soil
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- hand tamper [amzn.to/2ZPVxmn]
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- garden rake [amzn.to/2NQVV1O]
- driveway squeegee [amzn.to/2NTyxRc], used to spread asphalt sealer
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I don’t even have an asphalt walkway, just love watching Roger fix things.
The look on his face at the end is priceless. He is thinking, it doesn’t look the same at all.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You still have to seal coat it.
@@SalvadorSTMZ Still looks to have a completely different consistency
Hello, Roger...another top class video from the team at This Old House. I really miss you guys on public television.
Really miss Roger on the show the new episodes isn't the same without Roger. This old clip is nostalgia.
I don't know why I find this oddly satisfying
Why didnt they make the clean-cut, to begin with?
That's what I was wondering,it would've been easier
Thank you!!
It's possible that he would have tore up the compacted material getting the root out. So to minimize that he just removed a smaller section first.
Because it had a rising flare when the root started pushing up the asphalt
Funny how everytime I look up a repair video I always come across This Old House...Might as well Subscribe!
Experts in Cold Patch are in the house.
Asphalt contracts as it dries and cures.... don't compact it level with the old asphalt... compact the patch 1/8" above the existing asphalt... it will settle 1/8" lower as it cures...
And that’s why Roger is the greatest folks🤪
Great video
You did a great job with the patch up job. But I have a question. We don't have a drive way but we do park out front of the house there like a 12 foot section from the street to the side walk and the our fence. How can I put a slab of concrete to park our SUV, I'm getting tried of vacuuming all the time cause of the grass and stuff from our shoes. How can I make a 10x10 slab?? Any help would be grateful.
yes very good job
In the tree business it's called compartmentalizing not healing and that was a major root looking for water
Roger aint no tree man
Exemplary exhibition You have inspired me to work on my channel, thanks. 🐼
I need this done to my driveway and some oak roots removed.
compact, the way he says it is so satisfying like if u agree
"Not a major root for a tree this size." Tree says "WHAT!"
Miss you Roger.
I miss him too
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Gotta pack the pact, so we can pack the pact for the compact.
Looks nice! What is the tool you're using to cut the asphalt at 0:50 ? Do you have a list of recommended tools for cutting asphalt? Thanks!
Electric jack hammer with a chisel bit. Harbor freight sells them for around 400 or you can rent them from Home Depot.
Why not cut before you chop?
Would have been good if Rogah put a slight bevel on the saw cuts so the patch dovetails in place and can't lift up later.
Are you at the wind up why would anyone want to dig/lift back up the patch ?
@@luboo4034 It's so it DOESN'T come up.
@@midnitebo that’s absolutely bonkers to even suggest that and secondly watch the video again when they took the patch up the root was well down they didn’t even have to cut it all they had to do was dig out and patch the asphalt simple as that
why didn't they cut the asphalt clean the first time...
They didn't want to finish the job so fast 😃
I know you put a patch on it cuz I seen the video
Ya everybody has a diamond blade circular saw in their garage
Hawk Shaw ever hear of tool rental duh
I have one
It's about $15 at Lowes or Home Depot for a circular saw blade that can cut asphalt.
onagoodday627 yep also it will last for thousands of ft of cuts.... A lil trickbi learned is an old wood blade works too if thats all you have to work with...
@@Summerlin866 Good thing I have thousands of ft of cuts to make...not
I love how roger says asssfault
What a lie. No one will know there was a patch here
How many times did he say compact in this video😂😂😂
Significant overkill, I'd say, but if someone's will to do the work and provide the materials in exchange for the presence of a film crew, I'd bite too.
cut over "HEE-YUH"
This tree's gonna be fa-een. I don't think so.
Isn’t latex is used as the cohesive agent in this cold patch as indicated on the label of the pail, not actual asphalt? If that’s the case, the physical properties between the two and the usefulness are very different. I may be of old school, as my personal preference is hot asphalt.
I have used only Sakrete brand cold-patch, and that stuff did not smell like it was just latex...it smelled like a petroleum based product. The Sakrete stuff I have used worked great, when properly applied and packed well, and has lasted without any degradation for over a decade...looks like it will outlast the 'hot' asphalt surrounding it (and by 'it' I am referring to the many such patches I have done on my own long & wide driveway as well as a parking lot at a friend's business).
Always annoying when they don’t show the finish product.
If this guy said the words compact or compacted one more time in the video i was gonna throw my phone at the wall
Say "compact" again! I DARE YOU!
Good
Cold patch is like throwing your money away lol even the gravel mix he used was wrong should have used lime stone only thing I seen that he did right was packing the hole in as he filled it
This is the poorer man's version. The right way takes more time and money. This way is good for those bogus "house flippers"
Why not just cut it in the first place instead of using the electric hammer?
Not enough stone dust. The whole front yard and back yard should have been converted to stone dust for better results.
Why not take the easy route and just build up the asphalt to make a gentle slope or hill?
Because then the asphalt will crumble in the thinner areas. Patches like these need to be made full depth in order to last.
However, he could have cut out the old asphalt a foot or so to either side of the root, and then applied the cold-patch to have a thicker middle hump to allow the root to remain; assuming that he does not mind having a shallow hump on his walkway. As some others have noted, that root looked fairly serious and might have been more important to that tree than he realized. But then again, cold-patch does not work as well when used deep/thick...it is best when used perhaps no more than a couple inches, packed firmly, and over a solid substrate that will not just settle or crumble under it.
I have been laying asphalt over 23 years and done it all from small patches like this to ripping up full carriageway to resurfacing full carriageway you went over the top cutting that root it’s an old tree it wasn’t going to grow anymore all had to to was dig out the patch and reinstate you could see the root was way under the asphalt classic case of an armature doing a pros work
Lol
This is known in France as f’ing it into the ground. Is he planning on driving a tank on it?
Roadbase*
Does this guy not talk
Cold patch wont hold up over time... Really stupid to do all that repair and the use crappy cold patch. Pay an extra $50 to have someone come in and do a proper hot patch that will last for many years.
isn't the point of videos like that one is to impress people with all the "oh i can do it myself!" stuff but not to actually use em as an instruction?
Not true. My cold patch has lasted 10 years so far.
You think you're gonna get a seasonal asphalt crew with a massive specialized truck out to do a small patch like this for $50??? Those guys are probably turning down $5k and $10k jobs for massive commercial parking lots. The pros aren't gonna waste time on piddly stuff like this.
Spoken like somebody who does not know how to properly apply cold-patch, or who uses the cheapest product. I have extensive experience using the Sakrete brand cold-patch, and with a solid prepared substrate and packed using a tamping plate in my electric hammer, the finished patches are as solid as the surrounding asphalt, and have lasted a LONG time and look like they will last a lot longer. I suspect that too many people try to use cheap cold-patch product, or dump it in an unprepared hole, or try to use it too deep, or fail to properly compact it.
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Cold patch easy to put down, but it is a temporary fix at best. If you want something easy to put down, but about 3 times stronger than hot or cold patch, try Mega Patch H2O. Here’s a video: ua-cam.com/video/9nKPRr1XOz4/v-deo.html
For This Old House: When it came time to pack the cold patch, you should've used a "jumping jack" packer.
Or, since he already had the electric hammer used to make the initial asphalt cuts, he could have stuck an inexpensive tamping plate bit into THAT, which works even better that many commercially available packers, and is less expensive as well.
Cold patch falls apart within a year. It takes in water and during the winter it freezes, expands and falls apart. Shit sucks.
Only if you buy bad cold patch, or install it improperly. I live in the upper Midwest and have done lots of asphalt driveway repairs using mostly Sakrete cold-patch product. The thing I do differently from many/most people is instead of just dumping it in a hole, or putting it on top of dirt or the gravel/duct product used in this video, or doing a half-assed job of compacting it, I first dump a bag of 'quickrete' concrete mix and level it about 2" below the desired surface, pour some water on and wait a day or two for it to cure enough, then apply cold-patch up to level, AND I use a tamping plate on my electric hammer (like what he used in this video to cut the asphalt originally) to really pack it tightly and smoothly. Then seal coat the area after a few weeks. Even after more than a decade of driving on it, and enduring harsh winters and boiling summers, all those patches are in perfect condition, they have not broken, settled, cracked or separated from the adjoining original asphalt. And it is in fact hard to tell from more than a few feet away that there is a patch there.
Good job cutting that root! Now just wait for a little wind and you will need to rebuild your whole house after that tree falls on it!
If a tree root is 3" or below in diameter the tree will survive like nothing happened. It's equal to you trimming your finger nails.
Your finger nails are not holding up a tree. NYC does not allow roots over 2 inches to be cut because it helps to support the tree in high winds and ground saturation conditions.
A crack in my walkway would not keep me up a night ..a missing 3 inch root in a 6 ton tree would.
Sucker roots do not help to support the tree in high winds and ground saturation conditions. Lol. Where the hell did you hear that? Sucker roots pop up due to a few different conditions, such as drought or stress. A tree has anywhere from 4 to 8 main roots that support the tree and do all the work. The diameter of said Main roots are dependent on the size of the tree, I:E a 10 foot sidewalk tree's main roots may be 3-4" in diameter where as a 40-50 foot tree's main roots can be 6-8" in diameter. The roots I am talking about cutting out are sucker roots, roots that do NOT support the tree other than conditions of stress(and if your tree is stressed I suggest finding what's stressing the tree such as soil deterioration, disease or it's going to die anyway). Where you cut the root also matters. If you cut out a root within the safe zone, usually around 5-7 feet of the trunk, you are going to either kill the tree out right or you are going to open the tree up to desease's, fungus, etc. which will eventually also kill the tree. So if you have a 6 ton tree, which is a very large tree, it's main roots will be in the 6-8" diameter range. Cutting out the 2" roots would be the sucker roots and can be cut out just fine, with proper care. If the sucker roots come back, the tree grows even more of them, or they begin to grow above ground, you have a sick tree and need to either cure it or cut it down because it's going to die anyway.
MrCougar, I will go ahead and admit that you probably know a lot more about trees than I do. Having said that, cutting a 3 inch root just to fix that bump in the pathway just seem very unnecessary to me. I have no doubt that could have been fixed leaving the root intact.
But thanks for your info , I learned things I did not know.
The only way to fix a raising walking path without cutting out the root that is raising it is to remove the material, concrete, pavers, ashfault, etc, and lay a thinner layer that will be even with the rest. The problem with doing this is your new "patch" will be thinner and not support people walking on it. it will crack, break, and eventually(quickly too)just crumble and have to be removed and repaired again. This just isn't practical. The best solution is to remove the root if it's safe to do so. Another alternative would be to remove the walkway, path and reroute it around the root. But again, this may not be practical.
Why didn't he just take the black top out and replace it instead of taking root out? I image that killed half of that tree.. I believe there better way to do it instead of cutting that Root!!! I don't think that root would have gotten much bigger...
Yes, they get bigger. You seem like you might live in the Chicago area. Have you ever used the Cook County "North Branch Trail"? A long asphalt paved bike/hike trail from Devon up to the botanic gardens.....lots of tree roots under the pavement, and I have seen over the years how the crews trim the asphalt to reduce the height of unpleasant humps and ridges due to the trees, and a few years later they have humped up even more. I know that may not be proof by itself, but I have seen how fast roots of at least some types of tree can grow on my own property.
Assphalt :)
riite heurr
Roger must throw away every piece of clothing he has after every job,,he is always covered in the stuff.
Robert Swift maybe it ruins your skirt but ive heard dirt doesnt instantly ruins jeans
Most people have washing machines.
Cold patch asphalt should only be used as a temporary bandaid until you can get hot mix in. It will never set up like hot mix.
"Cold Patch is one of the safest, MOST EFFECTIVE ASPHALT REPAIR PRODUCTs available. An environmentally-friendly, ready to use recycled asphalt product. Use to PERMANENT PATCHING OF potholes, cracks and other defects in blacktop and concrete." www.homedepot.com/p/SAKRETE-50-lb-U-S-Cold-Patch-60450007/100672929
Um not true. My cold patch has lasted for 10 years now.
Definitely not true, if a good quality cold-patch product is used and properly applied. But I have seen even self-proclaimed 'professionals' dump a bag of the cheapest cold-patch product in an unprepared hole, and too deep (since a suitable substrate was not first used to bring the level up so that the cold-patch is only a couple inches deep), and pack it only by bouncing a hammer or a piece of wood on it a few times....do THAT, and the cold-patch will certainly fail.
Leave the hump, seal it over, let the tree have it's root.
He didn’t even need to cut the root that’s the worst part when he lifter the asphalt up you could see the root was way down that was pushed up when the tree was younger and still growing it was never going to grow anymore all he’s done is damaging a healthy tree
What you pay for cold patch you can get hot mix for about $50 to $85 a ton and it dry in a hour or two after compacted
This guy doesn't know asphalt.
and you can tell if there is a patch even after you seal it
dude how funny is it when he has his sunglasses on getting all dirty in the hole LOL
If you watch the video, he say's at the end to wait a few weeks and then seal the whole walkway so the patch isn't visible.
Ronan B it will be very visible and brittle
hookah gamer yea exactly idk why he didn't just make the cut where he needed it for the first time and mayby if he said to seal the patch twice then seal the rest of the walkway that would hide it more but never be invisible
I have large asphalt property that has a few holes and if you really compact the asphalt patch we can’t see it even without sealing.
Cold patch doesn't look good
RAPTURE READY i
Worthless, overly general statement
HAHAHAHA what a joke Cold patch does not Harden enough like Hot Patch does.
"Cold Patch is one of the safest, MOST EFFECTIVE ASPHALT REPAIR PRODUCTs available. An environmentally-friendly, ready to use recycled asphalt product. Use to PERMANENT PATCHING OF potholes, cracks and other defects in blacktop and concrete." www.homedepot.com/p/SAKRETE-50-lb-U-S-Cold-Patch-60450007/100672929
Only if you buy bad cold patch, or install it improperly. I live in the upper Midwest and have done lots of asphalt driveway repairs using mostly Sakrete cold-patch product. The thing I do differently from many/most people is instead of just dumping it in a hole, or putting it on top of dirt or the gravel/duct product used in this video, or doing a half-assed job of compacting it, I first dump a bag of 'quickrete' concrete mix and level it about 2" below the desired surface, pour some water on and wait a day or two for it to cure enough, then apply cold-patch up to level, AND I use a tamping plate on my electric hammer (like what he used in this video to cut the asphalt originally) to really pack it tightly and smoothly. Then seal coat the area after a few weeks. Even after more than a decade of driving on it, and enduring harsh winters and boiling summers, all those patches are in perfect condition, they have not broken, settled, cracked or separated from the adjoining original asphalt. And it is in fact hard to tell from more than a few feet away that there is a patch there.
Sealcoat ... another american thing nobody needs ...
You sound like a dumb bitch.
Julian Knödler stfu lil puke
A fine example of a totally unsupported statement that runs seemingly contrary to all good advice.
And I have no idea where you got the idea that sealcoat is an American thing. They use it all over the world where asphalt surfaces exist.
No not a good job