Repairing a tarmac drive

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Firebar
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Post: # 9412Post Firebar

Hi everyone,

I appologise in advance for my limited knowledge, so forgive me.

Basically I have a pretty crummy tarmac driveway which has a couple of surface holes in it. The red top-layer has come off in patches. Recently some diesel was spilt over an area around 1m square. As you can imagine the top has disolved as such, or at least the binding agent.

Can anyone recommend the best way to treat this and repair it?
Material costs are my main worry although for such a small area I'm sure it would be around £5? The top layer seems VERY thin, I'd probably say around 10mm.

Thanks for any advice.
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bobbi o
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Post: # 9415Post bobbi o

you drive sounds like its at the end of its life.if the sub-base is solid you could scrape off the 10mm cowboy applied layer,apply a tack coat of bitumen emulsion and lay a fresh coat of 35mm thick wearing coarse over the whole lot.

£5 may not cover it !
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Firebar
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Post: # 9417Post Firebar

This is as I suspected. 10mm seemed ridiculous for a driveway!

thanks for your response.
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Tony McC
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Post: # 9457Post Tony McC

10mm is a paint job, not a bitmac job!!

Have you read the Some stupid git spilt oil/petrol/diesel on my drive FAQ?
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