The neighbor across the street had a new driveway put in this afternoon and when the workers were finished, they asked if I wanted them to fill in the ruts in MY driveway with the leftover stuff. Sure! I said. So they filled in the deepest holes and then took off. It’s pretty cold out today, I was wondering if that stuff is going to solidify better in the cold? Because I’m wondering if we should not drive over it for …how long?
I don’t think it makes a difference. When I helped my landlord last spring to patch the potholes in the parking lot, it could be driven over almost immediately.
What kind of “stuff” are you talking about ?
You should drive over it if it’s asphalt. You want to stay off a sealer, but if it were a sealer they wouldn’t be filling holes with it.
It’s just asphalt I guess, the black stuff most driveways are made from. No sealer. They just filled up some of the deeper ruts, ran a steamroller over briefly. I just wondered if the cold would make it firm up faster or if I should not drive over it right now.
I used to work on roads as an inspector. We could let cars drive on the lane we just did, when we went to do the other lane, when the asphalt got down to about 140 deg. F. What you describe is just plain asphalt mix. You could have driven over it in an hour, even on a hot summer day.
Well, all righty then, thanks for the information.