[ajaye]

Hey guy's

Trying to work something out, I hope this is the right section...

So: Concerning a:
Concrete floored Garage (epoxy coated), to asphalt driveway

The pictures will tell the tale.

I'm trying to figure out how to put together a slight ramp to join the garage step to the driveway, I wheel things in and out of the garage, so I'd like a small ramp like 2 or 3 inches, like the size of a corner triangle bead.

So, I'd like to bolt down have some hard rubber step guards (A) into the concrete (the full width of the door)

I had put some gripper strips (B) they were self adhesive, these went over the EPOXY coating which also covers the step.

The driveway is Asphalt, (C) I had used a coating a few years ago to designate a walkway

I had also put in a rebar (D) which did work well.

However went winter set it, I found the snow shovel started breaking things up, which is another thing I need it to be able to endure snow

I was "thinking"

1> Bury the rebar in deeper
2> Get some kinda triangle cornering over that
3> Use a hot liquid Asphalt to cover the area (F) the full widht of the door
4> I would drill some 2x4's t contain the form while it sets

has to withstand winter, people walking in and out and my car driving in and out occasionally

txs
!

 

[huesmann]

Get one of these and drill some holes in the vertical face. Get some stainless steel rod, heat it up and bend yourself some 90º angles out of it, with a short leg and a long leg. Cut/grind a few notches into the short leg. Squeeze some construction glue into the holes you drilled, stick the short legs into the holes. Stick the long legs down into the gap between concrete and asphalt.

 

[ajaye]

OH thats a sexy bit of kit, nice !:smile:

I can't quite visualize what you mean with the SS rod though.

Get one of these and drill some holes in the vertical face. Get some stainless steel rod, heat it up and bend yourself some 90º angles out of it, with a short leg and a long leg. Cut/grind a few notches into the short leg. Squeeze some construction glue into the holes you drilled, stick the short legs into the holes. Stick the long legs down into the gap between concrete and asphalt.

 

[HotRodx10]

Have you considered using asphalt patching material, perhaps topped with an asphalt sealer? Another option for filling or topping the patching material is a trowel-grade patching material.

Depending on how far you want the wedge, maybe start with the bagged material to fill in the first couple inches, and use the trowel-grade stuff for the top inch and the thinner edge at the transition to the driveway. For a few bucks more, you could just do it all with the trowel-grade stuff.

I recommend prepping the asphalt on the driveway by wetting it with light oil or diesel fuel to make the surface soft and sticky where you're going to add the material.

 

[ajaye]

thats a great idea too, that was what I was also gonna think of doing

Have you considered using asphalt patching material, perhaps topped with an asphalt sealer? Another option for filling or topping the patching material is a trowel-grade patching material.

Depending on how far you want the wedge, maybe start with the bagged material to fill in the first couple inches, and use the trowel-grade stuff for the top inch and the thinner edge at the transition to the driveway. For a few bucks more, you could just do it all with the trowel-grade stuff.

I recommend prepping the asphalt on the driveway by wetting it with light oil or diesel fuel to make the surface soft and sticky where you're going to add the material.

 

[huesmann]

OH thats a sexy bit of kit, nice !:smile:

I can't quite visualize what you mean with the SS rod though.

Stick the legs of the rod down into the crack between the concrete and asphalt.

 

[ajaye]

ahhh ok got it !

 

[Msradell]

I've never seen rebar placed in asphalt. It certainly doesn't make much sense, you are putting material that basically is not flexible into a material that's designed to be flexible. I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish by doing that, to me it seems like something that would make the asphalt breakup quicker.

 

[ajaye]

Not sure, of your comment, on my original picture there was a big gap and I used a flexible (rubber? kinda hose) rebar, might be called something else, to fill the gap... HTH in my pic you can see it's like a grey colour almost looks like pipe cladding

I've seen some vids where the put something similar into an expansion joint and then mastic over it

I've never seen rebar placed in asphalt. It certainly doesn't make much sense, you are putting material that basically is not flexible into a material that's designed to be flexible. I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish by doing that, to me it seems like something that would make the asphalt breakup quicker.

 

[HotRodx10]

I used a flexible (rubber? kinda hose) rebar, might be called something else, to fill the gap... HTH in my pic you can see it's like a grey colour almost looks like pipe cladding

Rebar is short for 'reinforcing bar' AKA deformed reinforcement, as in steel bars with bumps on them used to provide tension capacity in cast-in-place (CIP) concrete to make it reinforced concrete (RC).

I've seen some vids where the put something similar into an expansion joint and then mastic over it

What you have there is some type of foam or butyl rubbers joint sealer, or maybe what's considered 'backer rod', typically used to plug a groove so it can be filled with a liquid silicone or polyurethane sealer. If it was down in the gap, it would keep a liquid sealer from running into the gap, but if you're using patching asphalt and/or a trowel-grade material, it won't do anything but keep the material from getting into the gap. You want the patching material to get into the gap to help it stay in place, so I'd advise removing it before installing patching material.

 

[ajaye]

That's it, it's a backer rod ! Now I remember ,
great understood !

Initially I envisaged to fit it so it sat proud of the driveway, so it acted as a lip to the step drop, which kinda worked, but I forgot about winter and snow shovels ! LOL

Rebar is short for 'reinforcing bar' AKA deformed reinforcement, as in steel bars with bumps on them used to provide tension capacity in cast-in-place (CIP) concrete to make it reinforced concrete (RC).

What you have there is some type of foam or butyl rubbers joint sealer, or maybe what's considered 'backer rod', typically used to plug a groove so it can be filled with a liquid silicone or polyurethane sealer. If it was down in the gap, it would keep a liquid sealer from running into the gap, but if you're using patching asphalt and/or a trowel-grade material, it won't do anything but keep the material from getting into the gap. You want the patching material to get into the gap to help it stay in place, so I'd advise removing it before installing patching material.

 

[huesmann]

I've never seen rebar placed in asphalt. It certainly doesn't make much sense, you are putting material that basically is not flexible into a material that's designed to be flexible. I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish by doing that, to me it seems like something that would make the asphalt breakup quicker.

I never said the rebar legs should be in asphalt, I said they should be in the gap between the garage concrete and the apron asphalt.