Do not let your potholes get to the best of you. You will can overcome them simply and stress free. They are everywhere and they are normally quite expensive to fix professionally. They also happen to be very detrimental to the look of your driveway and the surrounding area including your house and garden. Therefore follow the next few pothole quick tips to fix them quickly and efficiently at a fraction of the cost.
• First you need to prepare the ground. Use a leaf blower, shovel or rake to get out all of the loose pebbles, stone, leaves debris or anything else that may be lingering in the pot hole.
• After you have removed everything, examine your pothole. You may notice that there are some weak sides of the pothole that are just barely hanging on. Get them out of there by breaking them off and removing that pothole debris. This will avoid future potholes in the same area and make it a much stronger hole.
• Then take some gravel that you may have lying at home or bought at a store and begin to fill the hole. Be sure not to fill the hole entirely. You should leave about three inches from the top of the driveway down into the hole. Use a tamping tool to get all of the gravel in place, tamped down.
• You should then fill the rest of the hole with soil and even make a smaller mound of soil that exceeds the top layer of the driveway.
• Pour water onto the soil and with your tamper tool, tamp down the soil. You may need to repeat this process once or a few times until the hole is covered with soil and meets the tops of the driveway.
• Soil can be replaced with matching in the case you have a gravel driveway. Instead of placing water you can just rake over it until the gravel of the pothole meets the original gravel.
• You can then use the pressure of your car to pack in the gravel and soil of the pothole to make sure you did a great job.
