How we repair potholes
The type of repair depends on a number of factors including:
- Size of the defect
- The location
- The road conditions
- Road materials
- Speed limit of the road
- Defect category
- Weather conditions
- Traffic management requirements
- Available budget and resources
- Works already planned for that road
For smaller potholes we use a material which can be poured into the hole and self-levels before forming a very hard surface and making the road safe.
In areas with multiple potholes in close proximity, we tend to use a hot material and overlay a larger area, or it may require more work like patching or resurfacing.
Multiple potholes on a road
There can be a few reasons why we may have repaired a pothole but not others on the same road:
- We may not be aware of the other potholes because they’ve not been reported to us.
- They may have been inspected and placed in a different repair category with a different timescale for repair.
- Larger potholes require different equipment - sometimes our teams fixing smaller holes don't have the right tools to fix larger ones so we need to ask another team to fix it. It may also be that only one pothole was reported.
