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Would you consider this an acceptable repair to a sidewalk?





This is what the City did as a "temporary" repair to mitigate the trip hazard.

No

I called the City and made a complaint about the half azz "repair" they did and told them to come out and clean it up ... get rid of it. The City inspector said this was perfectly acceptable and they weren't going to do anything.

The asphalt is NOT sticking to concrete. You can see where I kicked with my boot and it just flakes away. I was blowing leaves the other day and the leaf blower was peeling it up.

It's ridiculous.

That's cold patch, you can buy it at Home depot. Mostly we use it around steel plates covering trenches so the edges/corners aren't sharp to drive/walk over. It doesn't stick or is permanent.

That's pretty funny but the city doesn't want to tear out and replace, so I guess it can work for a little bit.

Kent

Trip hazard probably doesnt mean what it used to.

Guess what they would say if it were your responsibility and you had made that "repair?"

It'a a law suit waiting to happen. Make sure you put the city on written notice, that the hazard still exists.

You are lucky. Here the property owner is responsible for the sidewalk maintenance. The City will hire a contractor to make repairs and bill the property owner. In town trees are required in the parking strip. The City dictates what kind of trees and the owner is responsible for the trees. If tree roots lift the sidewalk too bad.

In some communities the sidewalk is the homeowners responsibility.

Oops kend beat me to it.

Soft ground under the sidewalk and maybe people parking on it?

Phil

It's a temporary repair until the City gets a roundtuit and do a permanent repair sometime next year. The inspector said they've repaired sidewalks this way and it works for years.

BS!

When winter hits and we get snow and ice it will peel away.

We have a local company that that drills a small hole in the concrete, screws in a nozzle, and then blows expanding foam insulation through the nozzle under fairly high pressure. It seems to work well and will lift that section up to match the rest of the sidewalk. I have seen it used on driveways to lift pretty large slabs.

No. It's caused by the ground freezing and heaving the concrete.

just chip that stuff outa there and cram some paper towels in there fishhead


gawd this is soooo easy


Next problem?

If someone trips and hurts themselves, who is liable, you or the city?

Round here the city will do sidewalk repair in bunches, the whole neighborhood.

Somebody complained and so they did a quicky to appease.

Kent

Which is caused by whoever did the initial pour not properly prepping the area with gravel to drain the moisture and geo fabric to prevent the gravel from settling to mitigate the heaving.

Looks like a 1/2 azz patch, but better then them doing nothing for a year, maybe

The first pic look like there is about a 2" rise from one level to the other. If it is, then from a handicap prospective, that grade "fix" won't pass code on a public sidewalk.

I was going take a shovel and get rid of it but ...

I had to call the city twice to get a response (it took two weeks for the inspector to call me back) and it's on record in their computer system as a pending repair.

If I remove it then I'd be liable so I guess I'll let nature take it's course.

Ask them to define "temporary".