I was bemused watching a gang reparing the edges of a country road. There were no kerbs and no drains. They dug out some of the subsided tarmac and replaced it. A total waste of materials as it will merely migrate into the soft verges. We have some well used lanes nearby where the edges are always in need of repair - but without drains and kurbs I feel it is fruitless.
So, how much are you proposing to allocate to improve this class of road, and what is the break-even point?
Chris
nothing new, I saw that technique in the Highlands of Scotland 50* years ago.
Chris J Dixon wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
A bit of machinery instead of blokes with barrows and spades. Use a rotary cutting machine to make a trench for the edge, Cast a concrete kurb. Then repair the road with tarmac up to the kurb. Continuous casting machines are used to make centre barriers - I would think a version of this tech could be used to fill the trench and provide a haunch.
But, if there are no drains and a continuous kerb is created, where does the rain water go?
What they don't show you is the odd upright stone installed as perhaps a marker for something which gets overgrown, then demolishes your suspension when you pull in as far as possible for that tractor...
Charles Hope wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@charleshope.demon.co.uk:
My kerb would be low and the tarmac would be flush to its top. The rain would then run off into the soil.
Approach a bank/venture capitalist and get your road repair company running ASAP. Post back when up and running.
The road I use my way to work [1] is a mixture of the two. Newer bits have the flat curb and older bits have the 'migrating tarmnac'. They're closing it again for two weeks so a bit more will no doubt be 'converted'. I first started using that road over 40 years ago when it was narrow and very convex (you slid off if it was icy). One day it will all be done.
[1] But only until December when I 'retire'. (FSVO 'retire').
First time it get resurfaced the new level will be above the kerb. You then begin to get migrating tarmac...
Not that I really think that's much of a problem.
Andy
Vir Campestris wrote in news:-o- snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:
Old surfaces should always be planed off and recycled! This also avoids having to adjust levels.
Or simply spray with tar and sprinkle some gravel - it looks great.
For about 3 days...
A new roundabout is being built near us and the concrete kerb stones have holes in them - about 2" diameter and a foot apart. I can't see any conventional drains in the road surface. Maybe that's common but I've not seen it before.
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