Quallcomm flooded!

[Gary Burch]

I love cold patch, they're a great band

[ttweed]

I love cold patch, they're a great band

Even if the Comedy Store calls, don't quit your day job, Gary.

TT

[pecivil]

wow if we have expansive clayey soil we are hosed.

On cold patch, I can only say fixing potholes is one of the most vexing problems in civil engineering. For the last 100 years people have been trying to come up with a way to do that, and there ain't one yet that is truly permanent. If there was a way the inventor would be a bazillionaire. Just take a look at the concrete patches there now and they are only a year or 2 old? And that is on a parking lot that has a low traffic volume at (autocrosses notwithstanding) at very low speeds. You can never get a good enough bond betwen old and new, and every tire that runs over it works that joint over and over until it fails again. The only real fix is to demo and repave. Just saying.

[Dan Chambers]

wow if we have expansive clayey soil we are hosed.

On cold patch, I can only say fixing potholes is one of the most vexing problems in civil engineering. For the last 100 years people have been trying to come up with a way to do that, and there ain't one yet that is truly permanent. If there was a way the inventor would be a bazillionaire. Just take a look at the concrete patches there now and they are only a year or 2 old? And that is on a parking lot that has a low traffic volume at (autocrosses notwithstanding) at very low speeds. You can never get a good enough bond betwen old and new, and every tire that runs over it works that joint over and over until it fails again. The only real fix is to demo and repave. Just saying.

All true. And ... cold-patch tends to expand and contract along with the surrounding asphalt material, making for a more uniform surface morphology. Whereas concrete is, well ... concreted in place and not as pliable as its surrounding asphalt bretheren when heated and cooled. Addtionally, cold-patch has an amount of bitchumen (the same basic agent as hot-batch asphalt) that conctrete lacks, so cold-patch is more likely to bond to like material than cementing agents that repel bitchumen. And ... asphalt has an inherent ability to flex under load as it is in fact a constantly hardening material (like the resin on a surfboard, or the glass [aka viscous silica] in your house windows). Concrete is as hard as a rock once the cementing agents chemically go off.

FWIW

[stevemckay]

I picked up two bags of the goo aka cold patch today and will get them down to the trailer this weekend so they can be used as needed on Friday or Saturday .