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 ...

Motorists should expect lane closures and flagging while work is in progress. Chip seal work typically lasts three to four days per location depending upon weather. During operations, existing ...

(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 ...

Chip sealing — or sealing a road’s cracks, followed by putting down a layer of asphalt and small gravel, or chips — can add about seven years of life to a road, said Don Barr, the street ...

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 ...

8—The Indiana Department of Transportation has announced a chip and seal operation that ... existing pavement is coated with liquid asphalt, which seals cracks and provides waterproof protection.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Missoula’s annual chip sealing program starts next Monday. Crews will go to work applying liquid asphalt and rock chips to city streets until about Aug. 7. The city seals the ...