asphalt millings for a driveway - what do GOOD ones look like or feel like?

[Walkin Horse]

This is what my drive looks like after 3 yrs. I take the rake once in awhile and drag it back to the middle. I spread it with a 4 in 1 bucket and a rake. Then packed it with the hoe tires. I ended up building a land plane to cut the whoopdedos out of it. Very little grass grows in it. I thought about taking the chunks with the yellow paint on them and striping the middle.

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[linda6162]

I need help. I spent $6,000.00 to have an asphalt millings driveway done two weeks ago. The contractor was not licensed, recommended by someone and will now not return to fix problems. The millings were spread 9' wide and 6" thick over tractored soil. He did absolutely no compaction. He placed a drain under the driveway which now is coming through the top and grass is growing through it as well. The millings are more like loose gravel. What can I do to fix this without spending more money I do not have. I am disgusted and embarassed and need some good advice. I live in northern/central Florida. Any type of coating I can place to bind millings together? Please help me. Thanks.

 

[TomSeller]

I need help. I spent $6,000.00 to have an asphalt millings driveway done two weeks ago. The contractor was not licensed, recommended by someone and will now not return to fix problems. The millings were spread 9' wide and 6" thick over tractored soil. He did absolutely no compaction. He placed a drain under the driveway which now is coming through the top and grass is growing through it as well. The millings are more like loose gravel. What can I do to fix this without spending more money I do not have. I am disgusted and embarassed and need some good advice. I live in northern/central Florida. Any type of coating I can place to bind millings together? Please help me. Thanks.

Do you have any pictures you can post? How long ago did he do the work?

 

[Egon]

I need help. I spent $6,000.00 to have an asphalt millings driveway done two weeks ago. The contractor was not licensed, recommended by someone and will now not return to fix problems. The millings were spread 9' wide and 6" thick over tractored soil. He did absolutely no compaction. He placed a drain under the driveway which now is coming through the top and grass is growing through it as well. The millings are more like loose gravel. What can I do to fix this without spending more money I do not have. I am disgusted and embarassed and need some good advice. I live in northern/central Florida. Any type of coating I can place to bind millings together? Please help me. Thanks.

You need a grader with ripper. Rip it windrow to one side and compact base. Windrow it back so you can compact base on the other side. Spread the windrow and compact in about three four stages.

The cheap solution is to just drive on it and hope you see the contractor jaywalking in front of you on some town street.

 

[paulharvey]

I need help. I spent $6,000.00 to have an asphalt millings driveway done two weeks ago. The contractor was not licensed, recommended by someone and will now not return to fix problems. The millings were spread 9' wide and 6" thick over tractored soil. He did absolutely no compaction. He placed a drain under the driveway which now is coming through the top and grass is growing through it as well. The millings are more like loose gravel. What can I do to fix this without spending more money I do not have. I am disgusted and embarassed and need some good advice. I live in northern/central Florida. Any type of coating I can place to bind millings together? Please help me. Thanks.

Sorry to hear that. Did you discuss what was expected from the contractor before they started? If they where just paid for material and spread, then that's all you can expect.

Btw how long is the driveway?
What county are you in?

Anyways, back to what to do now. There are several choices;
1) run over it a lot with what ever you have; lightly water it before and during; just don't flood it
2) rent a roller of some sort; traffic roller, vibratory, etc and roll the heck out of it
3) heavy plate tamp; and expect to run it over every square foot at least 10 times
4) not all RAP/millings will really bond well; and most will never really become one solid mass unless they have a lot of AC (asphaltic cement) left in them
5) find someone who can prime and sand it for you; needs to be well compacted first

 

[tastyratz]

There are companies that sell cutback asphalt barrels, also asphalt rejuvenators such as reclamite, but I haven't found much that gave me full confidence or didn't just cost close enough to real fresh asphalt.
You would probably be happier with it compacted though, either going at the guy who you had spread it(hope you contracted the compaction in the details on paper?) if not rent a driveway roller to at least help. Driving on it will help but take a long time and not always compact as evenly as a good solid rolling to start.
Maybe call the local paving company and offer a few bills to compact the drive next time they are in the area?


That bucket I had from the contractor I left half full since this post. It never hardened up and still can be shoveled. Sure it's a good gravel base but nothing more. I have been searching and become quite discouraged around here for usable millings. No time left to get a hot roll this season so I have to tough it out this winter it looks like...

 

[paulharvey]

There are companies that sell cutback asphalt barrels, also asphalt rejuvenators such as reclamite, but I haven't found much that gave me full confidence or didn't just cost close enough to real fresh asphalt.
You would probably be happier with it compacted though, either going at the guy who you had spread it(hope you contracted the compaction in the details on paper?) if not rent a driveway roller to at least help. Driving on it will help but take a long time and not always compact as evenly as a good solid rolling to start.
Maybe call the local paving company and offer a few bills to compact the drive next time they are in the area?

That bucket I had from the contractor I left half full since this post. It never hardened up and still can be shoveled. Sure it's a good gravel base but nothing more. I have been searching and become quite discouraged around here for usable millings. No time left to get a hot roll this season so I have to tough it out this winter it looks like...

It isn't going to set up like concrete or soil cement. The consolidation is very much like limerock roadbase; it just resists water erosion better. It won't set up in the bucket; unless it is really fresh asphalt.

 

[blueriver]

Put up a detour sign on the main road and let lots of folks drive on it ..

All kidding aside .. It's basically gravel and simply will not get rock hard it just needs to be worked .. Drive on it and blade it a lot!!

 

[BethelHntr]

We have a long dirt road going to the local gun club in which they laid recycled asphalt on, It turned to pot holes in a month. Grindings would have worked a lot better.

 

[linda6162]

It isn't going to set up like concrete or soil cement. The consolidation is very much like limerock roadbase; it just resists water erosion better. It won't set up in the bucket; unless it is really fresh asphalt.

Paul, I am real close to you. Can you come and look at it? Melrose,FL