On Friday, August 8, 2014 9:44:01 AM UTC-4, Kris wrote:
replying to Nate Nagel, Kris wrote:

njnagel wrote:



Hi all,

what could possibly have gone wrong? this past weekend I patched a

couple spots in my driveway with Sakrete brand cold patch, exactly per

directions - one "hole" was actually just an asphalt skin that had

peeled up, a couple other spots I needed to dig away all the old rotten

asphalt all the way to the base, in those cases I dug all the base up,

screened the gravel out, made a new gravel base, and finished with about

1.5" to 2" of cold patch (deeper than the asphalt that was there

before!) I used it exactly per directions, squared the edges of all

holes, never put it down less than 1" or more than 4" thick, tamped it

by hand with a 8" square steel tamper until it wouldn't compress down

any more. After a day or so it was mostly hard so I figured all was

good. Today I came home from work and it is SOFT! Not sure why, except

it was up to about 80 degrees, but it is cool and rainy now. It still

won't tamp down any more, but if I just touch it with my hand and push

laterally, it moves like there's next to no adhesion at all. What the

heck do I do now? I was hoping that I could seal the driveway later

this summer, but if these patches don't work, what's the point?

nate





I had the same problem with a product from quickcrete. I ended up calling

and

asking why there product was doing this? They told me it still had moister

in it

And throwing dry sand on it would draw out the moister! Then I had to wait

28

days before putting a sealer on it. Did you ever fix what was wrong?


sold the house a few years ago, so I can't give a long term report. But the patches did eventually firm up. Company never did reply to my inquiry but after a long time they did set and we were able to seal the driveway so it looked pretty good. Not as good as a proper mill and repave, but good enough that it didn't look as awful as it did when we first moved in, which was the goal.