Road pothole repair is the everyday work of councils, transport authorities and pavement maintenance contractors across Australia. The product has to bond reliably under traffic, work in any weather, reopen the lane quickly, and last long enough that the same crew isn't back patching the same hole next year.
Road Solutions AUS cold-mix asphalt is the standard road pothole repair material across the country. This page covers grade selection by road class, application under live traffic, and the operational economics of permanent vs temporary patching on sealed roads.
Local roads and residential streets — 7 Gauge Mix. Arterial roads and main routes — 10 Gauge Mix. Highways, freight corridors and bus routes — 10 Gauge as the baseline, 14 Gauge for deep failures. Rural unsealed crossover patches and rough sealed surfaces also take 10 or 14 Gauge for structural durability.
Carry both 7 and 10 Gauge on the truck and you cover almost every road-class callout from one vehicle.
Cold-mix's defining road advantage is the short lane closure. A typical road pothole takes 10–15 minutes from cone-out to cone-in for a single operator. That removes the half-day traffic management cost that hot-mix scheduling requires for the same work.
Reopen to traffic immediately after compaction. The first wheels over the patch continue consolidating the mix and lock the bond in place.
Long-haul road maintenance in rural Australia is logistically brutal for hot mix — the drive time from plant to site routinely exceeds the workable temperature window. Cold-mix breaks that constraint: a single ute with a pallet covers a multi-day patrol patching as it goes.
The 12-month sealed shelf life means crews can carry stock indefinitely without spoilage.
Post-storm road network damage is the worst-case maintenance scenario — many failures simultaneously, weather often still wet, public pressure to reopen routes quickly. Cold-mix is the standard storm-response product because it applies in active rain, bonds wet, and the road reopens the moment the patch is compacted.
Many councils carry a winter / wet-season storm stockpile specifically for this scenario.
Frequently asked
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