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Originally Posted by Pidgeonpost
The roads where I live are atrocious and getting worse. Potholes filled a month ago are beginning to open up again, and roads where whole stretches were resurfaced 5 years ago are showing potholes and other signs of deterioration. This seems like an incentive for the maintenance companies not to do too good a job. Nice regular earner to have to keep repeating poor work on a regular basis.
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The problem is potholes aren't repaired properly. I've actually seen the council fill in potholes with read mixed tarmac that you can buy in most DIY stores. They turn up, pour the ready mix into the pothole and level it off with a tarmac rake. They don't compact it either. That's just a poor job, hence why potholes reappear in as little as a couple of months (sometimes even less!).
What should be done with potholes is cut a hole around them with a saw, approximately 1 metre square, fill with stone to approximately a few inches below the surface of the tarmac, compact it with a wacker and then lay the tarmac. There's a big difference doing it that way than the DIY bagged tarmac route, but it takes more time and therefore more money.