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Question about pouring crack filler by eye vs using a squeegee, my first try looked like a crime scene
For the first five years of owning my place in Cleveland I filled every crack in the driveway the lazy way, just tipped the jug and let it glug down in a wobbly line like I was frosting a cake with my eyes closed. Last spring I gave up on that after a 12 foot crack on the north side of my slab dried into a lumpy snake that my snow shovel caught on every single time, ripping the patch right back out. So now I pour the stuff into an old plastic squeeze bottle, the kind you use for ketchup at a cookout, and run it along the crack with a cheap rubber squeegee I got for 4 bucks at the hardware store on West 25th. Sounds fussy but it cut my fill time on that whole stretch from about an hour down to 20 minutes and the surface comes out flat instead of peaked. The funny part is my first crack with the new method ran sideways on me because I squeezed way too hard and shot a brown stripe across three feet of clean concrete, looked like a totally different kind of stain. I scrubbed most of it off with mineral spirits but you can still see a shadow of it near the garage door. Does anybody else thin their filler down a little before squeezing it, or do you just deal with how thick it comes in the jug?
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skylerw876d ago
The temp of the jug matters more than thinning it in my experience. I keep mine inside overnight and that alone makes it flow way better than the cold stuff sitting in the garage all winter.
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