[LE Greys]

...involved putting down a layer of aggregate, leaving it overnight and going up and down it with a road-sweeper the next morning without doing anything else? Oh, and ignoring the layby outside my house that we had emptied especially for the purpose.

[Schnellzug]

They're not going to surface it? Maybe they're economising, or it's a traffic calming measure. Rather like bringing back cobbles.

[IanXC]

Sounds like chippings to me. There will be loose stones to damage your paint work for weeks!

[WatcherZero]

They will sometimes lay an undersurface before coming back later to lay the top surface.

[Class172]

Originally Posted by IanXC

Sounds like chippings to me. There will be loose stones to damage your paint work for weeks!

It's worst when you're on a perfectly fast and straight road, but the chippings go on for miles: do you trundle along at 20mph or do you risk having your car sandblasted?

[IanXC]

Originally Posted by Class172

It's worst when you're on a perfectly fast and straight road, but the chippings go on for miles: do you trundle along at 20mph or do you risk having your car sandblasted?

I have been known to take a diversionary route for a few weeks

[Mojo]

Sounds like surface dressing rather than actual resurfacing.

[causton]

Indeed, they've gone for the cheap and cheerful option of throwing loose stones around. You'll see piles of them around traffic islands where cars don't travel as much and don't wear them away...

[LE Greys]

It might well be something like that, although the sweeping/vacuum machine would be a bit strange. We're still getting people zooming through at 60 (in a 30 limit) or flooring it when pulling out of the junctions, so there are chippings everywhere and dust all over the place. It currently looks like it was laid by John McAdam - which is presumably what it looked like 150 years ago.

[ralphchadkirk]

Round here they put a layer of tarmac down and then pour chippings on top for the cars to press into the surface - is that what they've done near you LE Greys?

[LE Greys]

Originally Posted by ralphchadkirk

Round here they put a layer of tarmac down and then pour chippings on top for the cars to press into the surface - is that what they've done near you LE Greys?

No tar at all, just dumped a load of chippings, spread them out and disappeared.

[trentside]

Round here, it's all academic as the road surface just melts the minute the weather gets slightly warm - considering the contractor had already replaced it once due to sub-standard work;

http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2012/05/l...t-in-the-heat/

[mbonwick]

Originally Posted by LE Greys

No tar at all, just dumped a load of chippings, spread them out and disappeared.

They will have sprayed the surface with bitumen first, so the stones stick. The sweeper truck is then to remove the worst of the excess to avoid damage to car paintwork from flying chippings.

[WatcherZero]

Round here they first lay a rough layer with large stones quite loose fitting, little to make it stick but mostly just weight of cars work it in, then they come back a couple of weeks later and add a top layer with small stones steamrollerd flat.

[LE Greys]

Originally Posted by mbonwick

They will have sprayed the surface with bitumen first, so the stones stick. The sweeper truck is then to remove the worst of the excess to avoid damage to car paintwork from flying chippings.

They evidently forgot. In fact, you can still see the white lines from before, although some of the chippings appear to have pressed themselves into the old surface by now. The rest are scattered throughout the village.
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Originally Posted by WatcherZero

Round here they first lay a rough layer with large stones quite loose fitting, little to make it stick but mostly just weight of cars work it in, then they come back a couple of weeks later and add a top layer with small stones steamrollerd flat.

I hope that's what they're doing. Leaving it like this would be worse than before, although why they can't do it properly (i.e. scrape off the old surface, relay the chippings, tar it over and roll it in in one day) is beyond me. This road gets used as a rat-run between Letchworth Gate and Stevenage a lot.