What would you say if I told you your driveway doesn’t need to be boring blacktop or ho-hum gray concrete? Can you envision a red, orange, green or light khaki color driveway? Would you like a driveway that provides maximum traction in snow and ice? I used to have a driveway like this and loved it. I’m talking about a chip seal or tar and chip surface.
A rural road in my New Hampshire town was repaved recently using the chip seal method. The contractor sprayed about one-half gallon of hot liquid asphalt per square yard on the old road surface. A special spreading machine then carefully dropped about 25 pounds of small stone chips per square yard onto the hot, gooey asphalt cement. A large roller then compacted the chips into the liquid tar.
