A-Pak Paving Resurfaces Our Asphalt Driveway
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Total cost: $2,600
A-Pak Paving, based out of Haymarket, VA resurfaced the asphalt driveway of our home located in Sterling, VA on April 18, 2015. The crew seemed well organized, the equipment in good condition and the work was performed fairly quickly and efficiently. I was especially impressed by the crew's attention to detail, their machinery operating skills and their manual labor strength and endurance on this hot and humid day. They were also careful not to damage our siding and the plantings along our driveway. We are very pleased with the results! That said, this being our first experience with asphalt paving, what do you think of the job done by A-Pak Paving?
One of the best comments:
I recently watched you're video about the installation and sealcoating of you're asphalt driveway. Just thought I'd reach out to you with some friendly input. I've been in the asphalt pavement business for over 10 years so I've got a bit of knowledge. Firstly the reason the asphalt is so coarse is because it appears to be a material referred to as 3TS. A lot of contractors will use this mix because it saves them money. Normally for a new driveway installation or a dig out and repave you would start with a compacted and finely graded stone base and then you would use an asphalt binder for the initial base on top of the stone. The binder is an asphalt comprised of larger stones and ends up being extremely coarse, this layer should be applied at a minimum of 2". After the binder is laid and compacted with a roller then the final layer of extremely fine asphalt should be applied on top of it at 1 1/2 to 2" and then rolled again. Instead of doing this a lot of contractors opt to install 3TS asphalt which is a mix of large and small stone which they do for 2 reasons. First instead of having to do 2 steps they can do one step using the same material for the whole job and second because instead of giving you a 4" driveway they can normally cheat the homeowner and lay down 2-3" of blacktop and line their pockets. As for the sealcoating of the driveway the best tip I can give you is to squeegee the sealcoat on in a giant U shape to ensure even coverage and to make sure you let sealer flow over the sides of the driveway because the first spots to usually give out are the unsealed edges. Hope this helps!
Always good to see a man put in some honest money in his pocket the hard way
I thought the crew from Deliverance had come to lay your driveway.
Im only 21 but i was laughing when i seen them removing it by hand when they have a bobcat lmao
Maybe that is how they lift weights, save money not going to the gym! LOL
When you SAW them removing it by hand. What does your age have to do with laughing at their extra work?
Why am I at home watching this..?! And yet it’s fascinating!!
At first I thought it was a new style of paving . Than after re reading the title about 347 times I realized A-Pak was the name of the company
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I'm not sure what my life has become to be watching this
+Fergus Allan I was thinking the exact same thing. I need to read books or something.
Hahaha took words right out of my mouth
+Fergus Allan me 3, why did I just watch this? I wonder why they took the lightest guy on the crew and gave him the "shoe tamper" job. Should that not go to the heaviest guy?
+Fergus Allan It's a slow decline. Just embrace it.
+Fergus Allan I was watching people in singapore play 8 ball pool and ended up here to conclude the night... 2:25am... How I ended here I know not..
This has to be the shittiest display of paving I have ever seen in my life
you'd do a better job cause you an expert.
@@user-pz1bc9bc6o that's not what he's saying. It just looks ugly. I've seen better. Don't know how they do it but just looks better
If you are going to call someones job shity at least say how an 'expert' like you would do diferent.
@@user-pz1bc9bc6o a quick RUclips search will show you why. look at stamped concrete driveways, they are beautiful
So many experts
for some reason this entertains me
22 million people agree
I love that the guy who looks as if he is the elder statesman on the crew grabs hold of the slabs being torn up and tosses them into the bucket.
im trying to figure out what message is youtube sending me could it be my future?
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This kills me to watch.
I work in highway maintenance on a main trunk road through Scotland doing all types of roadworks and especially resurfacing.. can't believe how bad they did this.
Indeed. What a ripoff!
The bobcat.should have.had a teeth bucket
if trump gets elected driveways are fucked
they'l turn white
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He got elected, ... sky didn’t fall.
Excellent work, great attention to detail, very good price. Thanks for sharing and giving the company a well done.
Asphalt is a combination of 3 sizes small rocks with pitch, an unusable remnant of oil processing.
All asphalt will shrink. You can apply a surface coating after a couple years to make it nice and black again and minimize shrinking and cracking. Asphalt that is removed is recycled into new asphalt, unlike concrete.
I wasn't there, but it looks like cold mix.
Always use tack!
Way too much coarse aggregate in that mix.
Great looking finished product, but I too noticed large stone in mix and lack of tack.
This is like my 50th time watching this and I still enjoy it as much as the first
Lol! I had no idea how popular this video would become when I recorded it. Thank you for your comment and for watching my video again!
I am a asphalt worker from Michigan, There is many problems with this work,
1. The but joint at the road is to narrow making the bump up over the curb to high.
2. no tack was applied to the old asphalt, with out the tack the new asphalt and old asphalt will move differently and the new surface will end up peeling up.
3. The mix used has to large aggregate in it judging by the video, it is probably a binder mix , not a surface mix
4. The mix appears to be cold meaning it wont bind together has well.
Bingo on all counts!
Not to mention how long it seemed to take before they rolled it..
I pave over here in ny and i am damn near in tears watching this. It is so bad
Also looks like a lip at the garage, nothing like rain on the garage floor!
Homeowner probably went with the cheapest bid. Also the fact they’re doing asphalt work in sneakers is a dead giveaway these guys are a joke.
Let's work in construction wearing puma's make a video and put it online.
for a moment i thought that guy was going to compact the whole thing with those boot things lol
LOL
Ithink it was more to smooth the surface ratter than compacting XD
rrrohan2288 same lol i felt bad
Marc Couillard I did
rrrohan2288 thats exactly what I was thinking too
Why does this have so many views?
One way to get excellent work: film the crew! Well done and a great idea!
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I've been a heavy equipment operator for 22 years and worked in asphalt for the last 7 of them. Kevin in the description is mostly on target. They did pretty nice job. It is nice to have 2 layers if you can, but you can get away with one in a small private driveway like yours. It is not going to see a lot of truck traffic, you aren't going to park a tank on it. It is fine. You can't tell how long they waited between the 2 layers at the end. If it wasn't at least a few hours, you really didn't get 2 layers. It's going to cool together as one layer which is not what you want but it's fine for a private driveway. I would have liked to see them put some tack down on the part they didn't tare out so the new stuff sticks to it a little better. The size of the roller was fine for the job, I would have like to have heard his vibrators coming on for at least one pass all the way across for better compaction.
you are completely dead on... and with out the tack that resurface isn't going to last
I noticed they need to stay off for 5 days, I remember driving on freshly surfaced country roads growing up, are those made differently to allow immediate use?
No. What they mean is don't park on it for 5 days. An asphalt roller works like a rolling pin. Spreading and stretching the asphalt into place. Driving your car on it has a similar but much lesser effect on it. You aren't helping much but as long as it has cooled and been compacted enough that you don't sink in it, you aren't hurting it. Parking is every different. You aren't smoothing and stretching, you are sitting in one spot smashing it. You can ruin that smooth surface and maybe leave indentations where your tires were
I agree tack and a bit more compaction bit non the less looks good
and to be completely fair to them Herminio, he may have just not filmed that part or maybe cut it when he edited because he didn't know it was any different than the static rolling
At least half of these guys have a substance abuse problem
Brian Genthner
How da fuq would you know that by watching a video? Quit deflecting..
These guys look extremely unprofessional, reminds me of tinkers/knackers here in Ireland ripping people off doing driveways to a extremely low standard.
I don’t think they are travellers
I agree mate. I worked in this field for a few years and the only thing we used sledgehammers for was for very small issues and setting pins to string lines with smaller handled hammers.
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Mate...??? Definitely you're Aussie...!
Lmao yeah with a million in equipment?
Way too much work. Here is the highlight of my day: I got up drank coffee, read the newspaper, stood up too fast and almost passed out.
Lmao
lazy prick
Lamont said this happened to Fred Sanford from sandford and son
@@bryanjones5779 Classic!
... ah the sound of an experienced leader... better get up a bit slower tho ...
double steel finally makes an appearance at 5:40. this was so interesting to watch considering i'm in the industry. I was wondering what the hell i was watching for the first 5 minutes though.
That was painful to watch. They did way more hand work then necessary. And why did that guy compact it with his feet. They did it all the hard way
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that driveway didn t look to bad....whit some sealing in 30 minutes you get a very cheap nice looking driveway(no noise,no dust,not ruining half of your green spot) ...but some people have money...
I like how they have the skinniest dude on the crew doing the flat shoe tamp down part...
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WolfeBane84 bhb
Brilliant comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did they tell you that all of the damage that the older asphalt had, that they paved over, will soon make its way through the new layer?
Right mate! The only way to do the right job is a total tear out and to replace with stone, binder and top.
Was surprised more of the original surface not removed and that there was now border edging added
Nice work dear colleague.
Hi from Turkey.
That seems like money well wasted for that house size and type the drive way was fine
How would you know?
+AymenPedram did you even watch the video...?
no seriously, I agree...
That driveway was just fine...
Yea… to was ˇ”just fine” but now it is fantastic!
@@janpristach3073 Honestly I don't remember this video but.. Yeah the driveway looked like it had about 10+ years on it.
Waste of time and money
@@Drockaggie25 yeah waste of time and money
It looks pretty porous to me. But so did mine when it was laid. I wasn't happy with my edges as they looked a little ragged, but I can see the same thing in this video. Compaction while hot is the key.
If done right your supposed to use a rake to tap the edges as you go, then whack the edges, when done right you get a consistent straight edge
I was in the asphalt business for 35 years. They actually did a great job with the edges the way they compacted it. Once the dirt birm was raked back up to the edges it will look awesome.
Value your lungs people, you only get one pair, usually..
I feel bad for the ppl they ripped off, poor work and skill
man's went full Minecraft pick axe mode
Satisfaction to watch, hell in real life. I worked with driveways by us with Billy.
Been paving for a while and never once have i seen anyone use those shoes lol
They used expensive equipment to do the basic part laying the drive and didn’t use a compactor plate lol they could have laid that so much better then used the hand rammer at the end when it was cold lol 😂
Only very seasoned experts use them
@@guymiller7795 always salt and pepper your experts 🤣
My brother and I are pretty big pavers and idk but I like watching these
When I see people saw cutting concrete without a respirator I think to myself these are the guys that are keeping oncologist busy
MAC THE SLOVAC that would be asphalt but yea
Great job. Yet, I am surprised there isn't a better way to pat down asphalt than having a skinny guy with big shoes jump around on it.
+bg147 Odd how there weren't people around with more suitable BMI for that part.
+bg147 Plate compactor.
Realistically they should have had a vibratory plate and a paver that has feed screws and removable wing caps instead of guys with shovels and pack pads on their boots. Shirtless and unprofessional is the way to go if u want a cheap driveway. If u want it right someone comes in with a skid steer with a milling head on it and they use tac between the old driveway and the new surface not guys with picks banging and smashing and wasting time and money
+bg147 A fat guy with big shoes?
When he started this job, (the skinny guy) he was fat. :P
Haven't seen footwork like that since Michael Jackson !!! 5:18
please someone meme that
Lol so good
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You guys work your butts off. I guess you have to to make a living doing asphalt driveway paving all year round. I have a great deal of respect for those that do physical labor every day. Those work boot attachments your crew uses to get up close to the home and garage door apron look like they work pretty well for compaction. :-) Never saw those before.
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The old asphalt was less than an inch thick near the garage door in particular and likely was sold as being four inches thick all over. A common way contractors cheat their customers.
It was just the top layer they ripped up there , you could see the bottom layer still, so was most likely just a recap done from the old asphalt settling
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this was so satisfying😂
Alexander Hammond i know right 😍😅
this was os satisfying😂
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There is literally nothing satisfying about this if you know what you’re looking at
They have a bobcat and pull it up by hand
I'm shocked they didn't shovel from the truck into the paver lol. They made a day of it I guess
+Steve Vlietstra i wondered why they didn't do it in 2 pulls instead of making the noob shovel in 2 foot all the way down the drive. also why not use bobcst to pick up old asphalt, its what we do. also why not dump truck directly into hopper. thats what it is designed for
+Kuntry72 or pull a half a pass then a full
yeahh, I can't brain it...
What a bunch of dildos
Good job,greetings from Poland
Looks great. Nice job. I am sure the Homeowner was Very Happy.
Driveway came out top notch.
So, you put a roller on it why? It was literally below 160 by that point, You got zero compaction out of that.
They didn’t tack coat over the existing driveway. That’s going to peel up and crack in no time.
Looked like it wasnt even hot.. that's a crap job
They didnt even put any type of processed stone down on the sides where they widened it!
Yup! Right over the old cracks and everything.
Surprised they put this on RUclips!
I have seen it done several times. They waited way to long to heavy roll it. Poorly done over all. Also why did you get billy bob's back yard paving to do this. They looked and acted so unprofessional.
@@dilbertleadbetter8481 it was the definition "fly by night" crew wasn't it. So much they did half assed at best. I wouldn't let anyone video anything like that, let alone post it . 🤣
I don’t know why this keeps getting recommended to me
Just curious and wanted to know why not just rip out and repave ? You guys did to many repair and prep work for a resurfacing... I personally think you wasted alot of time... 🤔
Now that is what I’d call a damn good looking drive brother
5:08 What a good way to put the left over goods
Weird shape.
this parking only looks good but quality is zero.I think they put 1 inch asphalt
Are you joking? Theres at least 45ml on that driveway.
I've seen a lot of laying asphalt in my life but those guys must be new a simple job who was way harder than it has to be the edges are decent but the material itself did not look good at all
When I was a kid, the nick name for this machine was inch-inch. It moved so slowly.
i was watching them pick the under neath and i was like that looks fun then i saw them lifting those huge pieces and i was like that doesn’t look fun anymore🤣🤣
Asphalt is an actually heavy
let me guess, these guys came knocking on your door
They were strongly recommended by Charlie Chaplin
No we didnt
Don't look union to me
why is this in my recommended lol
Same
RUclips knows what we like.
"asphalt 8" was a physical material/aggregate
before it was a video game. If you didn't waste so much time gaming, you might have discerned this.
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The skinniest guy wears the compaction boots lol
What are compaction boots we in britan use what is called a bishop it’s like small square made of steel on the end of a pole
Sean Mackay in America they use both but I’m more familiar with the tac
Sean Mackay or bishop
@@seanmackay1187 What we call a tamper.
We need Andrew camarata to do this
Heck yeah
Moua Xiong would do well but he has a lot of diggers and not any machines for this kind of driveway but he would get around it and do it another way
I bet Bobcat makes attachments that would've made that much easier.
I bet that right edge has crumbled by now.
why do you say that
0:53 that guy grabbed a monster piece 0:58 he looked like he needed some medical attention. I was happy to see him up and going again.
Stan Mack lmfao! Completely missed this. Too funny
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guy looks a bit malnourished. I think they're paying him in weed.
I recorded this video, with the knowledge of A-Pak Paving, simply to document this fascinating and noisy process, to practice my video skills, and to share a new video with my growing RUclips audience. After we sold our Hidden Hollows property, there hasn't been much going on worthy of of such an effort. That said, I am amazed by the number of views and comments on this video, and somewhat concerned over the quality of A-Pak's asphalt re-surfacing work. At the very least, I will post a follow-up video so you can see how well our new driveway is holding up...or not...that is if we are still here.
Thank you for watching my videos, and Happy Holidays!
+Randall Wingett I enjoyed the video, thank you sir!
+Randall Wingett thanks for the video that randomly popped up on my what to watch :D i enjoyed it watched it all too
+Randall Wingett thanks for posting this. Nicely shot. Looking forward to a follow-up some time in the future, and I hope it holds up for you. Hopefully it will turn out that it doesn't need to be built to highway standards in order to handle driveway traffic for a long time.
Hi Randall
+Randall Wingett Informative video
Looks great
What a fantastic transformation! A-Pak Paving really did a remarkable job resurfacing your asphalt driveway. It's evident that they take pride in their work, from the organization of their crew to their attention to detail. Your driveway looks brand new, and it's clear that they put in the effort to ensure both quality and durability. Consider exploring the Buildovate CRM for assistance in managing construction projects similar to these!
nice work:-)
and as a side note:"joke"
couldn't they find a skinnier guy to stomp the ground with them funny shoe thingies lol
5:02 I hope I’m not the only one that noticed they made a ding dong peen with the leftover lmfao
Polite way to say penis.
Yep , you're the only one
39 years experience I saw no tack coat to bond the old to the new
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It’s a driveway not a road
That's the only thing you have to say about this?
Driveway or road anytime you’re going new to old you need a bonding agent (tack/A1), but that’s guys are small and just starting I would assume with the lack of PPE, but I’ve seen much worse
All that serious machinery for a small driveway. Those dudes definitely work hard , no fat bastards for sure!!
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways?
Thanks for sharing this with a few
+Mark Schueller That is an old George Carlin line.
why do we cook bacon,
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Why is it called a building when it's already built? And why are they called apartments when they are not apart?
Tamping down the hand work by the garage with his feet...he weighed what a wopping buck 25. A plate tamper would of packed it better and won't crumble but hey that's just me
+Engine 65 Productions Very poor work! Edges are not straight and even. there is a footprint, roller lines, very thin overlay and edges not hand tamped properly. Job will not last too long. Money wasted.
But... this is your way of paving in USA?!?
I guess I just love road building videos
Nice edging, next year there will be grass growing all over it. What a shit job, they probably paid a lot too
They got the tweaker patting it down with his "weight".
I concur doctor...from the beach in florida...
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That driveway looked fine... Why resurface it ????? Why
That's what I was thinking. It just needed a thick re-sealing to help hide the crack fills.
How’s that driveway holding up? lol
Was it really necessary? The old driveway seems to be good for me.
Come on guys act professional and keep your damn shirts on.
Question
How much will cost for a job like this for 120 feet long and 24 feet wide driveway
Angel F about 25-35 grand
Cap 3200 grade and lay 4500 rip out gravel and base top 7500
Depending on price where you live price per ton of blacktop give or take 300-1000
So how does this form together, is it just all the pebbles compressed together?
Rob Baez skinny boy pressed it down with his drunk crackhead dance ... it all good
Looks like they tore up a better job, then what they put back in..🤔
I'm wondering how Career Day at their kid's elementary school will go over. Bad juju.
that actually a really good work for a drive way
what i mean is that this is the "expensive" way to make it, but they can't help it if they had already asphalte in it.
What was wrong with the old driveway?
No I’m jk idk
I work in the industry and i think the methods employed were very labour intensive. An excavator could do the job of digging out and compacting some areas also a vib plate would have been handie.
*handy
@@jamalwoods9649 predictive spelling or mabey i was a bit pissed.😆🍻
@@jamalwoods9649 I hate these typo corector people.
Right lmao they had a whole skid loader … why not use the forks to get under the old and lift it up and just use the bucket to scoop it all up they just wasted so much time and enegergy
@@imissme8313 working that way will damage compacted ground under the asphalt and it will ad more work to redo it.
"Stay off it for 5 days", they said that just to give themselves plenty of time to get far away.
Exactly
We open our paving next day
I’m sure those people r Gypsies that looks like cold asphalt to me that means it will never get hard and it will come right out fast . 5 days enough time to get away
can we get an update on this? i mean is it still strong? or is there a video about it? let me check
Nice :) Greetings from Poland :)
*Applying Makeup To a DriveWay*
First off, the driveway wasn't in bad shape and could have easily been repaired to look like new and for much cheaper. Secondly, when putting new asphalt over old asphalt, you have to use tack coat for adhesion. Otherwise, the top layer can slip and cause cracking. Without tack coat, there is a good chance the new asphalt will fail and rather quickly. I know, at least where I am it is required on all driveway overlays and the same in most areas. Also, they should have used a plate compactor along the seam at the garage, where the roller can't get. A 90lb guy in fancy metal shoes isn't going to get the job done. That area will be a concern over time. There are a lot of other little things they did wrong and took shortcuts on. If I was the homeowner, I would be demanding to know why they didn't use tack coat and look for some kind of guarantee or refund, before the inevitable happens.
You must be from California ur a real critical person get a life
finally a critic comment with some sense. thanks
I wonder if the gentleman with the concrete saw has ever inquired about the wonders of SILICA DUST.
I love to work like these amazing
I wonder how.much that cost.. I didnt see nothing wrong with old one i wish mine look like that
wow none of this would fly on my crew , starting with all the guys wearing shoes instead of work boots. i could go on and on
This does appear to be a gypsy crew LOL
I'm wondering if you know that those are work boots. Nowadays they are made in a lot of different styles and looks.
@@Modelo646 2 of the guys were wearing sneakers , not boots . after a 2nd look I noticed a couple were wearing low wook boots
@@dubez3784 You mean house owner ?
@@Modelo646 no 2 guys that were working had sneakers on