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Picked tube crack filler over hot pour mix for my 40 foot joint and I'm kicking myself
My driveway has a joint that runs about 40 feet from the garage to the street and it was falling apart, so last Saturday I had to pick between the squeeze tube crack filler or renting a hot pour kettle from the tool rental in Dayton. I went with the tubes because it was 20 bucks and I could do it in an afternoon instead of dealing with melting blocks of tar, but after two rainstorms the stuff is already pulling up in chunks. The tube stuff went in soft and never really hardened like I hoped, and now I've got a gooey strip that collects dirt and looks worse than the crack did. Should I just bite the bullet and rent the kettle, or is there a trick to getting the tube filler to set up right?
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parkerellis13d ago
Funny thing is I did the exact same thing last spring and then spent a whole weekend scraping goo out of my joint with a putty knife like a guy chiseling gum off a sidewalk. Tube stuff is basically only good for hairline cracks in mild weather, and it sounds like yours never cured because the joint was damp or the tube was old. Cold nights and a deep joint will keep that stuff soft forever, and once it pulls up there is no magic trick to save it. Rent the kettle for that 40 footer, melt it hot, and you will probably never touch a tube again.
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