Loose chippings - Resurfacing

[munchintoz]

Taken on the A17 Lincolnshire. Sums it up really.

[Quinten]

I probably need the whoosh parrot for that, but that looks to me a nicely photoshopped signed placed there by a disgruntled motorist?

[Fartgalen]

We had 'resurfacing' done around here recently. Totally fking ridiculous. Lob down a bit of sticky wet tar and cover it in a copious dollop of stones. Took days and days for all the bloody loose stones to disappear.

[Wacky Racer]

Many years ago, I was driving around 20mph along the newly resurfaced Snake Pass towards Sheffield (Near the Snake Pass Inn) on a road that was full of new chippings,following two cars, when the leading cars windscreen cracked, but then five seconds later the windscreen shattered on the car in front as well, I could not believe it....

There were warning signs to keep the speed down, both cars were travelling no more than 20mph...

Be careful out there.....

[Ubar]

Fartgalen said:

Took days and days for all the bloody loose stones to disappear.

And about a week for the stuck down ones to come up as well. It's such a false economy doing roads in this way.

[Boydie88]

Yep, they love the chipping st around in here too. And if you do drive slowly, you get overtaken my total s in their stboxes happy to spray you in stones. It was done a month ago in one very swift afternoon between two villages near me, the original potholes are forming again and there are still loose stones and they haven't even painted the surface. Just left us with what I thought was a temporary 'No Road Markings' sign. Thanks, s.

[Motorrad]

Utter bds, you think it's bad in a car try riding a motorcycle over that st.

I'd happily break the limbs of the retarded fks who approve this sort of shoddy work.

[Shaw Tarse]

Fartgalen said:

We had 'resurfacing' done around here recently. Totally fking ridiculous. Lob down a bit of sticky wet tar and cover it in a copious dollop of stones. Took days and days for all the bloody loose stones to disappear.

A road near me is having this done in the next week.
The surface is fine at the moment

[xRIEx]

Quinten said:

I probably need the whoosh parrot for that, but that looks to me a nicely photoshopped signed placed there by a disgruntled motorist?

[munchintoz]

Quinten said:

I probably need the whoosh parrot for that, but that looks to me a nicely photoshopped signed placed there by a disgruntled motorist?

Just what I thought, couple of houses a few hundred yards before the sign and I'd bet they get really pissed off with a drive full of loose stuff.
Love the "Chips with that" quote

[DCheeseman]

I'm afraid to say it's one of the most cost effective surfacing techniques out there but admittedly not the most popular! It can be repeated time after time and adds years to the road surfaces. What appears to be a perfectly good road being surfaced dressed as it is known is exactly that: a perfectly good road being given another few years service. There wouldn't be much point dressing a knackered road. Its not an exact science and it happens every year. We the motorists do all the work pushing the chippings in and they sweep the excess away several times.

[Blakewater]

Dame Sarah Storey started a petition against surface dressing of roads because it's literally a pain for cyclists as well.

[Tim662]

Stuff is a nightmare, get it done quite a bit around here and have to avoid that road for a couple of weeks before you can drive along it properly. Otherwise you have to follow the same line as everyone else for it to be clear. So when you position the car to the left for more vision around a right hand bend (or visa versa) you get that horrible noise of stones on car

Edited by Tim662 on Tuesday 28th July 22:19

[csd19]

The idiotic local council did a similar thing about a month ago - now on the sections which are 90 degree bends there are no chippings left, just very shiny tar. That's going to be brilliant in the wet...

[R8VXF]

DCheeseman said:

I'm afraid to say it's one of the most cost effective surfacing techniques out there but admittedly not the most popular! It can be repeated time after time and adds years to the road surfaces. What appears to be a perfectly good road being surfaced dressed as it is known is exactly that: a perfectly good road being given another few years service. There wouldn't be much point dressing a knackered road. Its not an exact science and it happens every year. We the motorists do all the work pushing the chippings in and they sweep the excess away several times.

Bob?

[jonm01]

Was going to post a similar topic myself. How is this actually an acceptable way to resurface a road? Does this happen on the continent?

[whp1983]

How much does your heart sink when Mr Couldn't give a toss screams towards you at 90 in his company transit! Spraying you with chippings......hate temporary road surfaces

[R8VXF]

I am in two minds about this tbh. On my road, where you can barely get faster than a crawl, it would be a godsend to have the road resealed in this manner as it would massively help the desnowing due to the cracks etc retaining ice and making using the snow shovel a pain in the arris, on faster roads though it is a bloody nightmare.

[All that jazz]

OpulentBob arriving in 3...2...1... to tell you you're all wrong.

[bobbo89]

DCheeseman said:

I'm afraid to say it's one of the most cost effective surfacing techniques out there but admittedly not the most popular! It can be repeated time after time and adds years to the road surfaces. What appears to be a perfectly good road being surfaced dressed as it is known is exactly that: a perfectly good road being given another few years service. There wouldn't be much point dressing a knackered road. Its not an exact science and it happens every year. We the motorists do all the work pushing the chippings in and they sweep the excess away several times.

Glad someone got in with this to save me posting it!

If surface dressing wasn't carried out there'd be a far louder outcry a few years down the line when the majority of major roads are completely fked due to a lack of proper maintenance and no budget available for any of the surfacing needed!