When it comes to sealing, contractors generally have two options: sealcoating or using an asphalt chip seal. While sealcoating seems to be an initially less expensive option, it cannot repair ...

A new technique that let the Idaho Transportation Department chip-seal at night backfired with loose gravel and windshield ...

Safer roads begin with safer materials. For paving projects using asphalt chip seal, lightweight aggregate made from expanded shale, clay or slate (ESCS) has a greater bond strength and skid ...

Chip-seal season. While the Ada County Highway District ... ITD plans to resurface Chinden Boulevard from Glenwood to Eagle Road with a thin asphalt overlay, while the section from Eagle Road ...

(WJAR) — An NBC 10 viewer wrote in to Ask Alison about rubberized asphalt chip seal and why Rhode Island doesn’t use it statewide. Gary wrote: "Cedar Swamp Rd in Smithfield was repaved with a ...

Is chip sealing a road really the right choice? Yes, it is less expensive than asphalt, but less expensive for whom? Certainly not for us, as some of the windshields on newer cars, with their ...