Posted: 7/3/2017 6:07:14 PM EDT
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Bought my house 2 years ago and have neglected the driveway due to other projects. My driveway is not big, about 35' by 20'. It has a lot of cracks and I need suggestions on what to do for it.
Do I fill and seal? Just seal? I will be able to repave it in 2-3 years at a good deal when my road gets repaved. Also, when's the best time of the year to do this? Now? Here's what it looks like with a penny for reference:  IMG_6899 by BassOverflow, on Flickr
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| If that's a representative picture of the rest of your driveway, it's done, there's so much cracking you have many small separate pieces of asphalt just sitting together as your driveway. If it is a 2-3 year timeframe for replacement, I would just patch it up as needed till then. Driveway sealer will strictly be cosmetic if you choose to do it. |
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If it were on tails, then it should be left there. Quoted:
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Thats the problem with you NC hipster millennial A-holes, you see a penny one the ground(US legal currency) and you just take a picture of it! Damn it, dont be so lazy and pick it up! |
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If that's a representative picture of the rest of your driveway, it's done, there's so much cracking you have many small separate pieces of asphalt just sitting together as your driveway. If it is a 2-3 year timeframe for replacement, I would just patch it up as needed till then. Driveway sealer will strictly be cosmetic if you choose to do it. |
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Asphalt cracking like that is usually a problem with the mix. Â It was F'd from the get-go most likely. Â If it was one or two large cracks or a small broken up area then that was a subsurface prep problem. Â |
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I wish my driveway looked that good. But it's 35+ years old and frequent visits by the Big Brown Truck have pretty much done it in.
It can't be seen from the road so we'll probably wait a few years to replace it -- maybe. Or we just might let our daughter do it when we're too feeble to live here any more and she moves in. |