DIYbanter - View Single Post

Richard J Kinch

writes:

3000 bucks will buy a LOT of sealer

Please. Hot-mix asphalt concrete is about $80/ton. Your "sealer" is just
a water emulsion of asphalt cement with sand, and horrifically more
expensive than hot-mix. The labor costs per unit weight applied are even
worse for "sealer", since you're painting it on in thousandths of an inch
versus dumping multiple inches out of a truck.

If "sealer" was cost-effective, somebody besides sucker homeowners would be
buying it. You don't see the DOT putting it on roads, because they have
engineers who know better.

... besides it looks so good every time its done

The only genuine value is the looks. Businesses want to paint their
parking lots so they aren't all spotted with grease stains. Homeowners
want that (phony) fresh look.

If you wanted durable good looks, you would have paid for portland cement
concrete instead of asphalt concrete.