Asphalt Repair Products

Asphalt fails in two ways: it cracks (linear failure) and it breaks up (volume failure). Cracks come from thermal cycling, oxidation and base movement; volume failures — potholes, ravelling, scabbing, edge break — are usually cracks that were ignored long enough for water to get into the base and pump out fines.

That distinction drives product choice. Surface cracks under ~10 mm wide are sealed with a pourable rubberised crack filler before water reaches the base. Once the pavement has lost material and a void exists, you need a cold-mix asphalt to fill, bond and restore the trafficable surface. Use both in sequence on a fully treated pavement and you can extend asset life by years.

The cold-mix range covers four aggregate gauges — 5, 7, 10 and 14 mm — letting you match aggregate size to repair depth and traffic load. The rubberised crack filler is a urethane-fortified polymer that dries flexible and bonds to asphalt, concrete, masonry, metal and wood. Everything is sold in hand-portable 15 kg and 20 kg packs, plus pallet quantities for fleet and council use.

• 5 Gauge Mix — fine grade for tight surface repairs
• 7 Gauge Mix — all-purpose, the most-used cold mix in the range
• 10 Gauge Mix — heavy-duty for highways and high-traffic surfaces
• 14 Gauge Mix — deep-fill for failed joints and big voids
• Rubberised Crack Filler — pourable, flexible, oil and salt resistant

Hot mix asphalt is the right product when you're laying a new pavement, resurfacing a road, or running a planned overlay. It needs a paver, rollers, a tack coat and a hot-mix plant within a 90-minute drive.

Cold mix is the right product when you're repairing existing pavement — potholes, edge breaks, utility cuts, trench reinstatements, emergency callouts and remote-area work. It comes pre-mixed in a bag, applies at any temperature, and is trafficable as soon as it's compacted. For 95% of repair work, that's the cheaper, faster and more durable option.

All Road Solutions AUS asphalt repair products are designed for a single operator with hand tools. Clear loose debris from the void or crack, apply the product, compact (for cold-mix) or allow self-levelling (for crack filler), then trafficking resumes immediately for cold-mix or once the sealant has set for crack filler.

No primer, no tack coat, no heating, no PPE beyond standard site gear. That keeps callout costs down and makes asphalt repair a single-trade activity rather than a planned multi-vehicle operation.

Australian pavements see UV-driven oxidation in summer, freeze-thaw in alpine and Tasmanian environments, and heavy axle loads on mine haul roads and freight corridors. A repair product built for milder northern-hemisphere conditions will harden and crack here, or stay too soft and rut.

The Road Solutions AUS cold-mix is polymer-modified with a binder profile selected for Australian climate extremes. The same bag works at -26 °C in the Snowy and 49 °C in the Pilbara, with no on-site adjustment.

Products ship direct from our Northgate, Queensland facility for trade and bulk orders, or through stockists in every state for smaller purchases. Same-day dispatch on common pack sizes. Bulk customers can negotiate freight and standing-order pricing — call 1300 789 967 or request a quote.