Dalton Enterprises 35099 PLI-STIX 30 Ft. Asphalt and Concrete Crack Filler

I used a normal torch to fill the cracks in my driveway. This stuff actually seems like a better quality than the stuff my local and very reputable ash fault contractor used. It's slow going with big deep cracks. I didn't just ram it in the cracks and heat it with a torch, I treated it more like sweating copper pipe, I melted the end of the rope and pulled it along the cracks slowly until they filled to the top. I probably would have saved some time and money if I'd pre-filled the cracks with something first. (maybe sand or crack sealing caulk) I may have over heated it but it seems like it did a great job anyway.From what I can see, this seems like the best product on Amazon for DIY people like me but I will also say it's not a quick fix. I probably fixed around 100+ feet of cracks on my long driveway and it took 10-15 hours hunched over doing it.

Lots of good info in prior reviews - taken altogether - this stuff works very well.1. Buy a Bernzamatic (no personal affiliation) MAPP gas kit with hose and click lighting. $55 bucks at Home Depot and worth every penny if you have more than a few feet of cracks to fill. No need for a wider nozzle. You can sit on a stool and easily handle the torch nozzle. Remember you are trying to save $$ by not hiring a contractor, so a little investment goes a long way.2. Cut the stuff into 12" lengths. Easier to handle. Once it melts it all flows together. Using tin snips - it can be cut lengthwise in half or even in quarters. Use a little silicon spray on the snips to keep product from sticking. Cut sides of product stick a bit to the crack. I would also pound them in with a lump hammer if necessary, but mostly they laid on top of the crack and melted in.3. Clean crack per directions. Expect to get some product over the edges of the crack. this isn't going to make a perfectly neat filler but with practice, you can get it pretty good.4. Hold the flame so only the tip of the flame contacts the product. Keep the torch head moving slowly. If you get yellow flame, back off a bit. The product starts to melt and flow and the longer you keep the heat on, the more it flows and fills. It does smoke a bit, try not to breathe it excessively of course.5. I haven"t done this yet because I just thought it up - but on the next batch of cracks, while product is still molten, I'm going to dust the larger cracks with mill fines (AKA - rock dust back east). I figure this will deal with the summer sun in case sunlight makes the product sticky. I also suspect that you could partially fill larger cracks with pea gravel (not river run, use quarry stone) and get a real solid patch.

I sealed cracks in my asphalt driveway three years ago with this product. The small cracks are still solidly sealed, but some of the larger cracks need to be resealed due to expansion/contraction issues. This product is much, much better than the pour on latex products which rarely last a year, even on small cracks. I was sealing the same cracks every year with the latex product.Getting three years out of this product makes up for the more time consuming installation. Truthfully the latex products seemed like a waste of time given how quickly they failed. The melt-on product takes more time to install, but it seals so much better that it really seems worth the effort.I think it lasts longer because it stays elastic so the seasonal movements in the crack don't break the seal. In any case, I just ordered more to re-do the driveway.

These are really easy to use and the product actually stays pliable in the crack even after cold weather.

I did a lot of researches on websites, it seems to me the hot robber filler works the best. So I gave it a try. I am in Illinois, after the winter, the cracks appear again. The cracks on my driveway is less than 1/4 inch at the worst spot, most are very narrow, it is around 3 feet long.I have also tried other products with wonderful customers review saying they worked beartifully. So far I have no luck to fix the cracks myself.

Well, like most I have tried everything to fill the cracks in my asphalt driveway and every spring the cracks are back and even bigger. I read many of the reviews and used much of the advice on this product. I used MAPP fuel, TS8000 torch and the PLI-STIX. Like many things, it's all in the preparation so I used this on my cracks around a half inch wide. Cleaned, widened and filled the cracks with sand up to the level that the STIX needed. While I was doing that I stretched the STIX out in the sun on the driveway. By the time I needed it, it was very pliable and I could stretch it thru areas slytly smaller than the STIX. The torch melted the stuff in a second. Areas that was larger than the STIX, I would cut off a piece of the STIX that I needed to fill the oversized crack with a utility knife, worked great, just melted it in with the initial melting process.I have a large driveway and walk so I used up my one roll today and will order two more. I'm not sure yet how small a crack I will try this on, but I did use the melting it into the smaller cracks method by holding it over the crack and as it melts use the melting STIX to rub it into the crack, it worked pretty good. I wrote this because the fill really looks great right now but I won't know until next spring about how it performs after the winter.