Velocity Road Patching

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The roads around my village are appalling and have been getting worse since I moved here 2.5 years ago. They are minor C roads - effectively lanes - but wide enough for a white line so they tend to get used like main roads, particularly at rush hour.

There are potholes of course, but also collapsed foundations, dips, bumps, great cracks down the centre etc. The council have even takes to erecting "Failed road surface" signs here and there, as if we didn't know! Basically typical British roads...

Today, they have shut the road and are systematically filling in every defect using a big Velocity Road Patching lorry. In essence, it blasts tarmac from a tube out the back and supposedly fills in all imperfections.

This is never going to be as good as a proper cut and resurface, but does anyone have any experience of these repairs. Do they work? Do they last? Or is it just a high tech equivalent of the old wheel barrow of tar that lasts about a month?

https://www.velocitypatching.com

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Thanks all. Re. the design being optimised for warm climates, perhaps that's why they left it until July to do anything? Sadly, this is now prime tractor rushing around season, so if the repairs are not well set soon, those massive tyres will soon dig them back out.

Quite frankly though, I think this is the best we're going to get, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. It's certainly better than nothing.