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GENERAL INFORMATION
Perma-Patch® is a completely new type of paving material
developed to fulfill a need to rapidly, safely, and permanently repair
potholes, utility cuts, T.V. or fiber optic cable slots, and parking area
problems in all types of weather.
Perma-Patch® has proven very useful to maintenance engineers
and utility contractors to minimize time of repair on high traffic volume
roadways and constant repeat trips to repair the same-damaged areas. Perma-Patch®
is used by State Department of Transportation Engineers throughout the
United States and in many foreign countries. Perma-Patch has shown its
reliability and durability on thousands of highways and bridges over the
last ten years. Currently, as a result of extensive studies of cold patch
products, the SHRP (Strategic Highway Research Program) research engineers
have found Perma-Patch to have the least failures of repair materials
used in nationwide testing (See Strategic Highway Research Project results
enclosed).
Perma-Patch® is superior in many ways to hot mix asphalt.
It can be used at any temperature, rain or shine. Perma-Patch®
is suitable for use under adverse weather conditions and sub-freezing
ambient road temperatures. It will bond equally well to dry, damp, or
wet surfaces. It's composition is such that it will strongly adhere to
stone, wood, steel, asphalt, and concrete; but at the same time, it does
not adhere to rubber-tires.
Wherever a standard repair to utility cuts, potholes, or roads are made,
there will be a gradual increase in the separation of the old paving from
the new paving. This separation will occur within three months to three
years after the repair and will allow water to penetrate under the paved
area and with the effects of permafrost. This leads to a gradual disintegration
of the repaired area that can extend to the street base, up to 500 feet
away. The only solution to this observable problem is to substitute Perma-Patch®
for the hot asphalt repair material.
Perma-Patch® is a quick, inexpensive, permanent replacement
for the maintenance intensive "cold patch" material. Perma-Patch
can do what standard "Cold Patch" can not do, it will stay in
place once a repair has been made. Due to the great strength and durability
of Perma-Patch, this is an ideal repair material for high traffic volume
areas such as roadways, highways, industrial, and commercial parking lots
and driveways, as well as lesser traffic volume locations. |
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