Wear an N95 respirator and safety glasses and cut out the old asphalt. Pour in a small amount of cold patch material and level it with a square-blade shovel. Tamp down a test section and measure ...

One drawback is that you can’t apply them on a cold day. Saw-cut asphalt patching entails cutting out and removing a damaged area, laying and compacting layers of new gravel and hot asphalt then ...

Columbus last year spent $140,000 on a machine that recycles old asphalt scraped from roads so crews can use it to patch the countless potholes appearing on city streets. The machine is nothing ...

Any low or sunken areas were also shaved with the milling machine and cut out deep enough to allow for new pavement. Then the entire driveway area was re-paved using a commercial asphalt spreader ...

If there are spot areas that need to be filled, then the existing asphalt should be cut out and new material applied properly. On the other hand, if the entire driveway is to be re-paved with a ...

Engineers at Astec Industries, a leading manufacturer of hot mix asphalt plants, needed to develop a new burner design quickly to accommodate a change in business strategy. Using the traditional ...

To make things worse, refiners are also cutting back on the production of a petrochemical that many states mix into asphalt to make roads more durable. Dozens of road repairs were delayed last ...

Can new technology take the oil out of asphalt? The city of Des Moines, Iowa has paved part of a bicycle trail with a green replacement called "bioasphalt" that's derived from plant and tree ...