Ensuring Longevity across Wales through Road Surface Retexturing
Speak to an expert >Ensure the durability and longevity of your road network with retexturing solutions
Road retexturing will improve skid resistance and extend the life of your surfaces. At Nolan Roadmarking, we understand the pressures you’re under when it comes to maintaining road networks and ensuring that your communities are safe, all of which tend to fall under a stringent budget with strict environmental targets.
Retexturing is a more efficient and carbon-conscious solution than the alternatives, such as complete resurfacing or surface dressing. It is also a contained application, which means your road networks can remain open with the appropriate traffic management. And, upon completion, the road can be opened immediately.
Why retexture your road surface?
When a road surface is newly laid, it has an inherent skid resistance, which helps prevent accidents and deliver safer roads. Over time, skid resistance is reduced as both the micro and macro textures of the surface suffer the impact of traffic and weather.
Retexturing worn roads will restore the surface to the same, or better, skid resistance as when it was first laid. This ensures enhanced road safety conditions on the road network. Retexturing is a vastly cheaper alternative to resurfacing the road, significantly quicker, and more environmentally friendly.
Retexturing applications
- Restoring anti-skid properties
- Removing rubber buildup from aircraft runways
- Restoring original colour to decorative resin-based surfaces
- Suitable pre-treatment prior to surface dressing
- Removing excess bitumen
Hydro retexturing uses high-pressure water jets to blast excess bitumen and binder out of the road surface to restore aggregate. As the roads heat up, aggregates are compressed into softer bitumen, which then bleeds through into the surface. We will blast this out with high-pressure water heads.
Our Hydroblast heads are dual-mounted on a single truck, allowing for whole carriageways or individual wheel tracks to be treated separately. It is a highly targeted operation that has great results in restoring the macrotexture of the road surface. It is also the ideal application for roads that have been surface dressed and are suffering from ‘binder bleed’.
Hydroblasting is an efficient process that can achieve outputs of 7000 to 8000 square metres of treated surface in a single shift. As the machinery is truck-mounted and the vehicle is continually moving, traffic management requirements can be kept to a minimum.
Shot blasting fires small steel shots at the road surface to reprofile the aggregate. This process improves both the micro and macro texture of the surface to enhance skid resistance and clear detritus from the road.
Each of our shot blasting systems is captive, so that the shot, once fired into the surface, is vacuumed up and sent through a sorting process. This will send any road detritus into one storage tank, while the shot itself is returned to the hopper to be reused. The shot is continually recycled until it disintegrates.
Shot blasting is performed as a mobile process similar to hydroblasting and therefore requires minimal traffic management. It is an extremely effective way of restoring the pavement’s skid resistance at a fraction of the cost of resurfacing and with a fraction of the carbon output.
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