Bitumen Products, Australia

Bitumen Products

Looking to pave a new driveway, seal or water proof around the house? Bitumen Products Australia is your guide for finding local builders, contractors and suppliers who can assist with bitumen servicing around the home, office or boat. Learn more about bitumen, its uses and alternatives. Browse business listings to find product and service suppliers in your State or City, click on business listings for more details and directions.

Bitumen products come from crude oil and most of us associate bitumen with bitumen roads that we see being laid by the main roads department. Bitumen is the black, sticky, tar-like substance used on roads and is made up primarily of carbon and hydrogen. It needs to be heated to turn into a liquid form. Bitumen is also known as asphalt or tar even though tar is actually derived from coal, while bitumen is derived from petroleum.

Bitumen is a very effective waterproofing agent used in swimming pools and water tanks and can be found in other bitumen sealing agents for personal use in the home or commercial use.

Instant bitumen is available for your driveway with bitumen products such as prepackaged instant bitumen coldmix that can be easily applied to repair bitumen driveways, carparks and footpaths or to fill trenches or dangerous pot-holes. This is a ready to use bitumen product that doesn’t require any mixing on your part.

A Bitumen bonding agent is also available to buy when using bitumen Coldmix. This helps the bitumen coldmix take to the area you are working on.

Rubberised bitumen products such as instant bitumen crack filler are also available to help the handyman do a professional job. Instant bitumen crack filler is easy for you to use and repair bitumen, asphalt or concrete driveways and paths.

You can use bitumen products for your driveway instead of concrete or gravel. Many airports including Sydney and Brisbane Airports are built using bitumen products. Both asphalt and concrete pavements are used at airports today with asphalt increasing in popularity because of the cheaper cost involved and the environmentally friendly benefits that it gives.

Bitumen waterproofing agents provide a host of advantages for the user. They are easy and inexpensive to apply and do not taint the water. Bitumen products such as this quick drying agent give you a high usage coverage. Bitumen Waterproofing can be brushed, sprayed or trowelled on depending on your needs.

Bitumen waterproofing protection provides corrosion protection to metal surfaces and can be used as a primer when using other bitumen products. Bitumen waterproofing products will adhere to most surfaces and provide the added advantage of being non-toxic.

Bitumen Product Alternatives

Some bitumen alternatives that are used to build roads, paths and driveways include Brick, Cobblestone, Concrete and Gravel roads.

Brick roads were common in the 1900s but are too time consuming and expensive to be built today. Many people like to pave their driveways or entertainment areas with bricks or pavers.

Cobblestone roads are like brick roads in that they set in sand and these roads were popular throughout Europe. These roads, pathways and streets are picturesque to see but eventually were phased out at the start of the 20th century.

Concrete roads, driveways and pathways are the most common alternative to bitumen. Concrete offers greater life expectancy and almost no maintenance, while bitumen does need to be repaired because it sustains damage through either traffic or whether.

Building a gravel road or driveway is the cheapest option. A gravel road or driveway is simply many small stones laid down along a path. These stones usually become embedded into the ground forming a compact surface.