Almost Invisible Driveway Crack Repair

foreign [Music] about this time last year we had a water main break right in front of our house which basically subsided most of my driveway in this area so there's actually a pretty big void under here and what happened was that the driveway settled and cracked so this year before winter comes again my hope is to repair this crack where it's starting to chip away so there's a couple options that I can take the first is to fill it with a concrete filler which you know if you've ever seen it it doesn't leave a very good look it really illuminates the crack and so I don't want to make a problem where there isn't the problem so I'm going to take a different kind of approach and see what happens if it doesn't work then we'll try the filler next year the road was repaired I had a concrete lifting company come by to lift my driveway with sprinkle what they do is drill a few small holes through the slab and inject a foam mixture that cures immediately and lifts the concrete this process is called foam jacking the first step is to clean up the crack for this I enlist the help of my kids after all who doesn't like to play with a super powerful water gun that you never have to fill up as always these things typically degrade into playing with the pressure washer the spraying things that don't need to be sprayed we're gonna prepare a bit of concrete repair mortar to fill those holes so this is what we're using here this is a wait three repair mortar don't try to use regular concrete because it's not going to stick to your old concrete this stuff [Music] has something in it which makes it stick [Music] and I'm going to slowly pour my water in here until I achieve the consistency I'm looking for [Music] but I think it's a little too liquidy put a little bit more powder in all right [Music] it's a bit Pasty not too runny but not too dry this process is fairly straightforward first I smoosh as much concrete into the crack as I can I'm not worried about making a mess because I will come back to clean it up when the concrete dries with it after it has had some time to dry I come back and wet the excess material and clean it off with a wet sponge [Music] [Music] all right so we have a big hole here Addie can you put some rocks in there press it in we'll use the little rocks was it right there no sorry the holes over here press the rocks in maybe that's good [Music] hey now we bury the Rocks okay and then we'll come back oh hi slurry hey don't step on the concrete dude [Music] foreign [Music] daddy where was the big hole oh yeah where's the rocks that we put in oh yeah look our three rocks right there isn't that nice we shine them up [Music] here is the crack after about a week you can see the area that was filled because of the excess material that remains after we cleaned it off however because I oversaturated this material with water it doesn't actually stick so if I go at it with a brew and brush off the remaining material we can hardly see the patch jump hopefully over winter with all the snow and shoveling the rest of that material will fade away in about 30 days after the concrete cures I will apply concrete sealer which should essentially make the repair invisible I think this turned out pretty good we'll have to see if it holds up over winter if you found this video helpful please like it and subscribe below

Channel: Old Stuff, New Stuff, and Adventures in Between

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Length: 6min 7sec (367 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 17 2022