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   bobtim | Dec 02, 2004 07:11am | #1

   I have always wondered about asphalt sealants......   Are they any good, cost effective, if they are so good how come they don't seal city streets?  You get my drift. 

   The only thing I have ever read about sealant is don't paint yer driveway every year, it will get slick.

   Sure would like to know more.  I've requested an article on asphalt and asphalt maintence for years (taunton surveys, they throw them in the trash I bet).

   Haven't got the Jan. issue. I'm in Alaska and don't expect to get it  'til Jan

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   UncleDunc | Dec 02, 2004 01:18pm | #2

   >> ... how come they don't seal city streets?An illumnating question. Sometimes we learn more from the questions than from the answers.

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   seeyou | Dec 02, 2004 02:23pm | #3

   >> ... how come they don't seal city streets?

   'Round here they do. Not the whole thing, but they've got something they spray on cracks. I've seen areas where it looked like it would have been easier to coat the whole thing than each individual crack. They spay this stuff and then put sand on top of it (to make it drivable quickly, I assume).

   I invented driveway ceiling. It's called a carport.

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   UncleDunc | Dec 02, 2004 02:57pm | #4

   >> 'Round here they do. Not the whole thing, but they've got something they spray on cracks.They do that here, too, but it's real asphalt, comes out hot. Then after a couple cycles fixing cracks, they do what they call chip seal, spray hot asphalt on the street and spread a thin layer of gravel over it. I think the other poster was talking about the kind of driveway sealer building suppliers sell in a can, and I've never seen a municipality use anything thing like that for streets. Parking lots yes, but not streets.