concrete cracks

[Pan mixer]

Her indoors has demanded that I do something about these minor cracks in the path next to the house. What should I fill them with?

N.B. size 11 boot toe cap for scale.

 

[Richy12]

Jetcem mixed with black concrete dye

It will look sh1t no matter what you do but this will look the least sh1t

 

[Lincs Lass]

Dig it up and start again

 

[Richy12]

Or overlay it with 6mm dense tarmac? Say 40mm deep

 

[Paul E]

Nip down to London and nick some of their pavements.
All gold apparently.

 

[puppet]

Mix some concrete with a fine gravel and just stick it in. Gentle brush before it sets. Some moss by next year, you will hardly see it and your high heels will no longer be at risk
It's only a path, not designed for an artic

 

[Pan mixer]

Most of those are good suggestions thanks.

I was watching an American V-log where someone had a compound that they poured straight in and wondered if anyone knew waht that sort of thing was.

The problem here is that our house is on a raft, the path isn't and so the crack opens and closes as a pass time on this heavy clay.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Most of those are good suggestions thanks.

I was watching an American V-log where someone had a compound that they poured straight in and wondered if anyone knew waht that sort of thing was.

The problem here is that our house is on a raft, the path isn't and so the crack opens and closes as a pass time on this heavy clay.

Would a resin grout fill them ,,the stuff I use for indian sandstone is called Nexus v75,,mix it up till it looks like porridge, wet the surface and pour it in , when it sets it's as hard as concrete

 

[Courier]

https://www.newventureproducts.co.uk/osmo-natural-finishes/424-osmo-post-fix ??

Have a look at the video, should be OK for a bodge job....

 

[br jones]

Do you know anyone who could dig it up and re concrete it ?

 

[puppet]

Most of those are good suggestions thanks.

I was watching an American V-log where someone had a compound that they poured straight in and wondered if anyone knew waht that sort of thing was.

The problem here is that our house is on a raft, the path isn't and so the crack opens and closes as a pass time on this heavy clay.

In that case dig it up, 12 inches sub-base, 8 inches of concrete and 2 layers of mesh


Or you could just fill in the cracks

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Hot tar?

 

[solo]

Hot tar?

Can you imagine the ear bashing he will get on a hot summers day when it’s just been freshly tramped onto the carpets? Got to be worth redoing to save the grief.

 

[Wisconsonian]

This is one product

https://www.menards.com/main/paint/concrete-blacktop-sealers/concrete-repair/akona-reg-gray-pourable-concrete-crack-filler-1-gal/5581352/p-1444445324217-c-5650.htm?tid=2671889799730318125&ipos=1

Pressure wash the edges of the crack, rinse clean, fill with loose sand, rinse the sand down so it's 3/4" below the surface, let it dry. fill with crack sealer. It will take a little movement.

A more flexible seal would be a foam backer rod stuffed into the crack, and a polyurethane sealant applied in an sideways hourglass shape. Dymonic, NP1, Vulkem 116, Sikaflex are some names here, some of those should translate over there. Some of those companies make a self leveling product that will be a step up from the menards product above.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Fill the last inch up with road Plainings dust

 

[Bongodog]

Minor cracks if the trouble and strife loses a heel in one of those I would suggest running like hell.

From your description, the best thing would be to break the path and start again, plenty of steel to hold it together and whilst the ground will pull away in a drought the path should stay still. Make sure you've got a expansion joint every few metres and fill it with a mastic compound

 

[Hesstondriver]

Concrex from whatco

 

[Ian01]

Looks more like tarmac than concrete?

 

[Pan mixer]

Looks more like tarmac than concrete?

It is concrete with a thin layer of travelling folk tar-and-stones on top (organised without me knowing about it)

 

[Courier]

Hot tar?

Hot tar has a habit of being so thin that it disappears and you need 10 times what you expected ...