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Gah. Cold patch. That stuff seems to be next to useless, with approximately the same effectiveness as just pouring gravel into the pothole. It just spreads ou
by ansible 7y ago
Gah. Cold patch. That stuff seems to be next to useless, with approximately the same effectiveness as just pouring gravel into the pothole. It just spreads out everywhere.
- zrobotics 7y agoOverall it is slightly better than filling the hole with gravel, since gravel will tend to abrade the edges of the road surface and make the hole larger. It's still a crappy fix though, the only advantage is it's quick and cheap.
- homonculus1 7y agoYou're supposed to scrape the overflow back into the hole and tamp everything down. If you do it properly it's not as good as real asphalt but it's a hell of a lot better than gravel, or a hole. Unfortunately where I live the workers are incredibly lazy or incredibly mismanaged. They just dump it and leave it heaping up above the road surface. That degree of shoddiness is a mark of societal dysfunction...