Abstract:
A method of repairing a damaged area of a bituminous wearing course including heating the damaged area with an infrared heater, raking the heated damaged area, applying a bitumen rejuvenating liquid composition to the raked heated damaged area, adding new material to the rejuvenated raked heated damaged area, compacting the new material to provide a compacted repaired area of bituminous wearing course, wherein said new material is applied cold and is in the form of a composition including aggregate, bituminous material and a naturally occurring mineral asphalt based liquid material. A composition for use as the new material in the method of repairing a damaged area of a bituminous wearing course includes aggregate, bituminous material and a naturally occurring mineral asphalt based liquid material, and is in a cold state. The damaged area may be heated by an infrared heater, said infrared heater comprising at least one radiator for applying heat to an underlying damaged bituminous wearing course, and control means for controlling the applied heat such that the heating temperature is defined by a lower predetermined limit and an upper predetermined limit.