Best Asphalt Crack Repair Product? - Aquaphalt 6.0 Review

In this video, I demonstrate how to repair a cracked asphalt driveway using the product Aquaphalt 6.0. This product is the highest rated asphalt repair product on the market. Follow along as I repair some cracks.

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[johno]

That repair is so much superior to other products.

[michaelwertheim]

Hey Michael, great video. You did a nice job of walking people through your project and accurately portraying Aquaphalt.

[tonymanero]

Allow me to give you more best practices to make the repair permanent. First, this and other H2O patches have a water activated glue, to offset that most installs are not done correctly. Watch the Sakcrete 6 minute video on their 3 patches which do not have glue. The secret to a permanent patch is tamping, tamping, and more tamping, and a vertical 2” edge wall. The tamping causes the gravel to interlock like you see with packed snow and packed powder. Proper tampering results in real time hardening due to full gravel stone interlock. Most people tamp to get a flat surface and think once it dries, it will get hard. No.
Aquaphalt realized people don’t tamp enough, so it added a glue activate by water that binds the gravel, and tamping is to get it flat. For that, Sakcrete is $20 while Acquaphalt is $63.
In this video, he does a OK job, but to make it permanent, 1. He should do multiple layers, one layer about 3 inches, tamp to 2”, and apply 3” and tamp to 2. Of course, water to activate the glue. And tamping multiple layers makes the entire block interlock into 1 block. 2. Use a tack that will bind the multiple layers, and apply tack to the edges that will better ensure the seams won’t fail. But if he tamped really well, like 1” above the surface and tamped to be even with the surface, the gravel would be interlocked for good block binding, and good pressure against the edges that stones won’t get loose at the seams, something people complain about; the middle is rock hard due to glue but the edges can break up. For permanent edges, 2” vertical wall and tamping. For patches without glue, layering is important so there is uniform tamping and hardness. You can investigate with any patch that doesn’t have glue. Lay down 2 inches, and tamp to 1 inch, and it will immediately get hard due to gravel interlock. If you can push out stones and it still has a shine, not enough tamping was done.