wesleypatel•8d agoProlific Poster

Cracked my driveway last spring. Tried the $12 epoxy syringe patch from Lowe's instead of getting it redone. 6 months later and it's still holding up.

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Man that's awesome to hear! I had the exact same thing happen with a crack running along my garage apron, and I used one of those tube kits from Home Depot, the kind you mix up and squeeze in. Mine was maybe a 4 foot long crack, not super wide but deep enough to annoy me every time I walked over it. I cleaned it out real good with a wire brush and a shop vac, then packed that epoxy in there. It's been over a year now and it hasn't even spiderwebbed. I honestly thought it would fail with the first freeze, but that stuff really bonds tight.

tyler6148d ago

Yeah my place in Cleveland gets hammered every winter with freeze-thaw cycles, I was sure that patch job would be toast by March. I remember I did a 3 foot crack near the walkway with that same Lowe's syringe, the kind that comes in the little dual plunger thing. I went overboard and actually vacuumed out the crack with the hose attachment on my shop vac, then hit it with a heat gun for a few minutes to dry out any moisture before I squirted the epoxy in. That was like 18 months ago and you can barely even see where the crack was, the stuff bonds like concrete glue. I bet a lot of people just skip the prep work and then blame the product when it fails, but if you do it right it really does hold up way longer than you'd expect.