Sprayed on road surfaces

[RW3200]

Hi all.

Has anyone else experienced the spray on road surfaces that are being used these days in some areas.
In my locality we're on our 2nd surface in less than a year.
I find this method totally inadequate and surely if it needs attention annually its not going to work out as a cost effective replacement for a proper tarmac resurface let alone the disruption and potential damage caused to the users cars.
Has anyone else got any experiences / views on the 'stuff'?

 

[Parisien]

Yuck....cheap 'n' cheerful..........hate it......ok on C class roads, but not rest


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[RW3200]

Yuck....cheap 'n' cheerful..........hate it......ok on C class roads, but not rest


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I can cope with it in the village, as long as its laid better than the job they've done here, but as soon as they try it elsewhere I think a revolt may be in order

I suggest we keep an eye on this, give them an inch and they'll take a much loved country road!

 

[Andyk]

Not heard or seen this before......how can you tell?

 

[mjheathcote]

Yah, used in our area on C roads mostly.
Mask off drains etc, spray a thin coat of Tarmac or whatever and cover it in stones.
Horrible horrible horrible.
Inevitably it does not last with patches where it does not stick.

 

[RW3200]

Not heard or seen this before......how can you tell?

You will be able to spot it if you come across it, it looks different from proper tarmac.
Think pebble dashing, only on the road.

The main problem I've found is that the contractors never seem to be able to sweep the surface of excess stone which results in it flicking off the tyres and hitting the underside of the car (ouch), especially when its warm as is now.

I also use a motorbike and have a lovely crack in my helmet visor from a rogue stone!

Ru

 

[rossyl]

Councils have no sense...
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...es-in-surrey-cause-problems-for-cyclists.html

When there is a crash and a cyclist gets injured due to this cheap method it will finally be banned. Unfortunately, it often takes something terrible happening before people choose to act, despite the dangers being obvious.

 

[Felonious Crud]

Surface dressing has been used a lot round here and it's bloody cr@p. Oddly, it has been used on roads which appear to have absolutely nothing wrong with them whatsoever.

 

[philw696]

Had it explained to me ref the above Adam.
Like a good pair of shoes being re soled courtesy of the former Avon County Council.
Phil.

 

[Felonious Crud]

And Essex County Council. It's like your shoes being re-soled with marbles.

 

[Parisien]

You pay your road taxes and you get dirt tracks.......reminds me of Eastern Europe


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[roger102]

they have been using it the hot weather to stop the road surface from becoming treacle. when its fresh it's like black ice and you get the tw**s coming the other way at 60 spraying your car with bullets

 

[RSM Masser]

Ahhhh! I have a good idea - lets look at the terrible state of the roads - it is too expensive to repair them - after all no one pays road tax, fuel tax, parking fees, any other sort of tax. So the councils have no money.

BUT we can chuck a load of sticky tar in liquid form - it will level itself so we save on labour spreading it, then get the lorry full of chippings to drive along the same road with the tailgate open ..........

As it would cost money to roll this into the afore mentioned sticky stuff - we will leave it to the normal road user (cars owned by Joe Public) to push the stones into the road - we can collect what is not required - the ridge left in the middle and at the edges and spread them somewhere else.

A cheap and shoddy way of pretending to repair a road

 

[RW3200]

Sadly it looks like this method is becoming more common.

I've written to my local councillor about this as we're on our second re-surface in 12mths.
It may be viable on an annual budget but surely councils should be working more long term than this.

1 2 3........10 and relax.

Ru