Chip Sealing Driveway

[Streetcar]

Not sure of costs in your area but tar and gravel about 60 percent the cost of asphalt maybe less depending on the size of the job. Should be applied in three coats to get you the best bang for your buck. The tar used in our area is called CRS 2 and is water based so no harm to the environment no hazmat license required to haul. When finished should be about one inch thick

Buppies is a tar water emulsion what you are thinking. That is commonly used for thin coats of maintenance road coatings

 

[Industrial Toys]

The Earwigs go into the Diesel Filler Nozzles, like it`s not a bad place to live!.

 

[hawkeye08]

1968 - Palmer, AK. DOH contractor lays down tar & chip on one half of the state highway going thru Palmer. About five miles worth. Roller is done - that half is still blocked off. Something happened - here comes the AK State police - he looks like a blinking Christmas tree. He swerves out onto the new tar & chip section to avoid the contractors equipment.

The tar & chip coat rolls up on his cruiser tires - just like a jelly roll. He gets about 80 feet and is brought to a quick stop. Something with the materials used or the process is WRONG. We were in the strip mall parking lot and saw the whole thing. At first everybody kept it contained - then one person began laughing - uncontrollably. That's all it took. An entire crowd burst out laughing. The highway patrolman got out of his cruiser and the crap stuck to the bottom of his boots also. I can hardly contain myself, right now, as I remember this scene.

It even made the evening news in Anchorage. Bottom line - the entire job had to be scraped up and new laid down.

They did that about 10 years ago to a local road. County paid out many $$ to motorists filing claims about the excessive tar/gravel stuck to their car (long after the road should have been fine).

 

[Industrial Toys]

I remember as a kid walking on those roads barefoot in the summer. Funny, I just remembered the smell.

 

[Pettrix]

Chip seal is usually 1/5th the cost of asphalt, is what I was told in my area. Typically private driveway jobs are done when they have a larger project lined up in the area.

One part of my driveway is about 9-12 degrees pitch but that is only for maybe 50 feet and then it levels to a gentle 2-5 degree pitch. This is NOT "grade" as found on highways. That is measured differently. I just used a gauge that reads off degrees.

 

[mikester]

I have a 1,600 foot long by 10-12 feet wide driveway that is currently gravel AB (mag spec 3/4" minus rock with fine sands). It's a good road base but getting sick of the dust and rocks.

Just wondering the costs to have a driveway my length, chip sealed? Since I already have the road base, just looking to have the tar poured and the chip seal laid and rolled.

Its cheaper than asphalt and durable like toilet paper.

If you have frost or heavy trucks/tractors/machinery you will be unhappy with tar and sht oops I mean chip. It also washes out real easy...

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's what I was thinking. My driveway is like a sponge in the spring, and I can't see the chip-n-tar surviving that. Excavate the whole thing down to hard pan or bedrock, put in a good base and you might have something to work with. Otherwise, I could forsee a big mess and total waste of money.

 

[Pettrix]

Its cheaper than asphalt and durable like toilet paper.

If you have frost or heavy trucks/tractors/machinery you will be unhappy with tar and sht oops I mean chip. It also washes out real easy...

Depends on location/climate. Where I live, entire state and county roads are chip sealed and they see 30,000 vehicles of traffic per day on them and the roads are nice and smooth. DOT in my area allows for 20+ ton trucks to drive on chip sealed roads.

So a broad general comment like that doesn't work as location/climate play a huge role. On soft clay soils with heavy precipitation and snowfall vs bedrock and dry climates, is a night and day difference in how the road base will react to chip sealing. Just like there are different building code requirements based on location/climate, so the same applies to what works and what doesn't work with road materials.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A municipality has deep pockets to make the roadbed right.

 

[Streetcar]

In southern Ohio many of the local and county roads are tar and chip. Minimal work to subgrade prior to paving