Hot tar crack filler

Huge · 2017-08-08T17:30:42+00:00

My house is a conversion of a cow barn, as a result of which I have a very large concrete yard made up of about 30 sections, each about 3 metres square. The joints between them are full of weeds. I'd like to fill the joints, and have just experimentally raked out the weeds and washed the soil out around one section, which turned out to be pretty straight-forward. How difficult is it to use hot tar to fill these joints? And if not that, what else could I fill them with? The concrete is pretty ratty, so the joints are very variable, and there's a lot of it, so (e.g.) patio grout is out of the question.

Aug 08, 2017 27 Replies

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Nightjar 8 years ago

This is uk.d-i-y. Isn't the use of an angle grinder mandatory for any job? ;-)

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Huge 8 years ago

Well, the *suggestion* certainly is!

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Andy Burns 8 years ago

I'd have thought a pressure-washer would be a better bet on the weeds and soil, and easier on the back ...

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Huge 8 years ago

Quite. We have very high water pressure here, and the hose is adequate!

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newshound 8 years ago

+1.

And more messy, for the little boy that is still there somewhere in all of us.

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Huge 8 years ago

I no longer need my full waterproofs for walking holidays, but they are useful for pressure washing patios. :o)

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Vir Campestris 8 years ago

I thought a pressure washer was the new default tool?

Andy

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Huge 8 years ago

That, at least, may be some use in this case.

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