why does patched potholes gave away within days?

[arthurwait]

No hardcore underneath the repair. You cant fill a deep hole with soft- non solid material and expect it to stay and like others have said water and weak foundations in the first place, corruption also as said.

Anyway after 2 months back in the UK the roads seem ok here. Doesn't look like UK councils are bothering to spend money on road repairs. Had to go off the road 4 times in 2 days due to lorries and vans driving across both lanes to avoid driving in all the potholes at the side of the roads.

[kannot]

Nothing wrong with the way they are patching the pot holes, the problem is the substrate. Building and maintaing roads on wet sand is difficult. I think they do pretty good for what they spend.

and your knowledge of how to repair a hole is?

As mentioned above u need a diamond cutter, a 100% cleaned out hole then a roller to compact the tarmac and then finally sealing bitumen in a 2 inch strip around the repair....anything else is a foooo* up.

Believe whatever you like, but it makes no difference how you patch the hole, if the road is built over wet sand.

Again, I think they do pretty well for what they spend, you don’t think so, whatever.

u make me laugh.....keep it up pls

[Wavefloater]

It sounds like they're at least doing something about pot holes in your areas. Where I am, potholes can sit for months and months without anything being done. There is a village on the Phoenix Golf Course road about 1/2 way between Sukhumvit and highway 331, and a couple of the bigger potholes were filled with coconut shells by the locals (as nothing was being done about them) years ago. The shells actually sort of worked, but they'd be pushed out of the holes within a day or so. It seems that some kind soul would push them back in again. I guess the Poo Yai finally felt like he was maybe losing too much face by doing nothing, so the holes were eventually fixed in the conventional way,

[Commander Tamson]

Do some of you people honestly believe that the Thais don't know how to build, or repair, roads? Of course they f'ing do!

But when half the budget, at least and not so mysteriously, goes elsewhere, the job is always half done if at all.

[Bluetongue]

My version of events herehttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7169996474594117305&pli=1#editor/target=post;postID=2323760006553021935;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=26;src=postname

[mogandave]

Nothing wrong with the way they are patching the pot holes, the problem is the substrate. Building and maintaing roads on wet sand is difficult. I think they do pretty good for what they spend.

and your knowledge of how to repair a hole is?

As mentioned above u need a diamond cutter, a 100% cleaned out hole then a roller to compact the tarmac and then finally sealing bitumen in a 2 inch strip around the repair....anything else is a foooo* up.

Believe whatever you like, but it makes no difference how you patch the hole, if the road is built over wet sand.

Again, I think they do pretty well for what they spend, you don’t think so, whatever.

Wet sand? So all the potholes are built over wet sand? I used to live in a place called Sandbanks. The name might give it away but we never had problems with potholes.

The fact is we have learnt to build roads and building all over the globe overcoming all obstacles. The reason there are so many potholes and road problems here is poor preparation and workmanship....nothing else!

I did not say the roads were great, I did not say better roads could not be built, what I said was, there is nothing wrong with the way they patch the potholes, and that I think they do pretty good for what they spend, which is very little.

[BillyBobThai]

Close to where I live, they repaired 3 sections of a road that I go over almost daily. Less than 5 feet away there is a hole a good 18 inch wide that they left. Why??? God only knows. Be glad for the little things in life.

[MAJIC]

Having seen many Excellent Roads in Thailand,In and out of Bangkok and other Cities,we know they are more than capable of building decent roads. So why are roads around villages all over Thailand full of potholes cracks and even subsidence, one can only suspect,some of the material money and labour,disappeared,or was done on the cheap in the first place! near my wife's parents village there is a 5 kilometre stretch of road that has literally millions of potholes, in places it's easy to see why? the whole surface is no more than 75 mm,including the Tarmac surface!

[MAJIC]

No hardcore underneath the repair. You cant fill a deep hole with soft- non solid material and expect it to stay and like others have said water and weak foundations in the first place, corruption also as said.

Anyway after 2 months back in the UK the roads seem ok here. Doesn't look like UK councils are bothering to spend money on road repairs. Had to go off the road 4 times in 2 days due to lorries and vans driving across both lanes to avoid driving in all the potholes at the side of the roads.

And whereabouts in the UK was this unnamed/unnumbered, road then? And is this the responsibility of the unnamed Council? More like the Highways Department/Agency ? And part of the Department of Transport!

[arthurwait]

No hardcore underneath the repair. You cant fill a deep hole with soft- non solid material and expect it to stay and like others have said water and weak foundations in the first place, corruption also as said.

Anyway after 2 months back in the UK the roads seem ok here. Doesn't look like UK councils are bothering to spend money on road repairs. Had to go off the road 4 times in 2 days due to lorries and vans driving across both lanes to avoid driving in all the potholes at the side of the roads.

And whereabouts in the UK was this unnamed/unnumbered, road then? And is this the responsibility of the unnamed Council? More like the Highways Department/Agency ? And part of the Department of Transport!

Sorry for the lack of details Mr Hitler wasn't trying to kid you.

Sussex and Surrey, lots of roads. Would you like the exact numbers of all the roads there are potholes on ? Longitude and latitude coordinates as well ?