Is CommPatch cost-effective?

This is the best part. Although CommPatch itself costs significantly more than hot mix, it can reduce your pavement repair costs by 50% or more. The reason is that the cost of material is only a small part of the overall cost of each pavement repair.

Consider your investment in a dump truck, a tag-a-long trailer, a small roller or compactor, tools, labor, insurance, fringe benefits, and the myriad other costs of putting a patch crew on the road. All of those costs are incurred while your patch crew performs the unproductive task of driving the distance from your yard to the hot mix plant, where they frequently must wait in line for mix, and from the plant to the first repair site.  

Once at the repair site, they must apply tack to each pothole–which means added expense for the material, its handling, and application–and it may be necessary to wait until the hot mix cools before opening up the roadway to traffic. One thing is certain: if the patch was not correctly performed, it is likely to be short-lived, especially during times of frequent rains, and have to be re-done.   

At the end of the day, any leftover mix is not only lost money, but it entails additional expense in disposing of it.   

With CommPatch, your crew goes directly from your equipment yard to the first repair, they don’t need to bring tack, they can patch immediately after a rain, they can put traffic immediately on each patch, and any leftover mix can be used the next time they do pavement repairs. And, with CommPatch, your pavement patches are permanent. 

The bottom line: CommPatch can be shown to reduce your cost of performing pavement patching by approximately one-half versus the cost of using hot mix.

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