You say Arsenal?


Then cough cough!
:-)

(Fellow Morecambe & Wise fans will know what that's all about)

What are these patches in the concrete for? What is the process called?

Originally Posted by scifan57

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Removing chewing gum from the pavements? No idea what the process is called.

Originally Posted by stranding

You say Arsenal?

Then cough cough!
:-)

(Fellow Morecambe & Wise fans will know what that's all about)

Is this what you were referring to?

Originally Posted by stranding

Removing chewing gum from the pavements? No idea what the process is called.

These patches are made of concrete and are filling holes drilled in the concrete walk.
These holes were drilled to correct a problem in the sidewalk.
What is the name of the process involved?

Originally Posted by scifan57

Is this what you were referring to?
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIA-RKaS9I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Yes! Congratulations on finding that so quickly :-)

Completely daft, isn't it? But very funny! Those two started it. Not just in that sketch but always -- whenever the word "Arsenal" came up, there was the quicksilver response cough. Why?? Who knows, but, knowing them, think it was because the word sounds a tad rude... :-)

So now, those of us bitten by the M&W bug & old enough to know better, always follow Arsenal with a cough or two. Or the other way round, of course!
Now you know. Learn a little something every day!

Originally Posted by scifan57

These patches are made of concrete and are filling holes drilled in the concrete walk.
These holes were drilled to correct a problem in the sidewalk.
What is the name of the process involved?

Holes drilled in the pavement / sidewalk?...reminds me of Bernard Cribbins again:-)

Checking the water table?
Or sewage pipes?
Holes to erect scaffolding?
Looking for electric cables?
Holes to fix those barrier thingies in a few posts back?

That's just the holes-purpose. The corrective filling-in name is another matter.

Originally Posted by stranding

Holes drilled in the pavement / sidewalk?...reminds me of Bernard Cribbins again:-)

Checking the water table?
Or sewage pipes?
Holes to erect scaffolding?
Looking for electric cables?
Holes to fix those barrier thingies in a few posts back?

That's just the holes-purpose. The corrective filling-in name is another matter.

No to all your proposed explanations.
The holes are drilled in order to pump something under the sidewalk. It corrects certain problems the sidewalk had.

Originally Posted by scifan57

No to all your proposed explanations.
The holes are drilled in order to pump something under the sidewalk. It corrects certain problems the sidewalk had.

Expanding foam to insulate & warm the surface?
Some other sort of warming ingredient to help melt ice & snow in winter?
More concrete or ballast to rectify unevenness?
To bury broadband cables?
Or fibre optics?

EDIT: Hole made to dig down to find & give a shove to the handy little mole used to pull wires along underground?

Originally Posted by scifan57

No to all your proposed explanations.
The holes are drilled in order to pump something under the sidewalk. It corrects certain problems the sidewalk had.

I expect there are cavities underneath the sidewalk. In construction repairs, a technique used to stabilise foundations in these situations is to pump a liquid form of concrete into the cavities. The concrete usually has a foaming or similar agent added to the mix, and this will expand the concrete as it drys out and sets. The cavities are filled and stability shoal be resumed.

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