[vagirl1245]

My driveway is asphalt, no longer black and nothing but cracks and crevices from the 1950's! There is no way I can afford to actually have it re-surfaced however I thought if I just bought the 5 gal buckets of the "black stuff" at wal-mart and rolled it on it would have look better than it does. I could patch most of the cracks beforehand. I understand it would not be the way to go and all men/ home improvement people are cringing just reading this but thought it would just LOOK BETTER BLACK at this point until I could afford to have it done right.?

[ballengerb1]

That black stuff is likely tar emulsion, not really much more than water based paint. It will look a bit better as would a 200 year old barn that just got sprayed red. You can get crack filler which is quite a bit thicker and trpowel it into the cracks, spread a light coating of sand on the filler and them paint.

[KISS]

There are at least two varieties. One is thin, the other is thick. Still other's are ruberized.

You can and is suggested to fill the cracks separately. I never had any large holes to fill.

At home blacktop as be abandoned due to more maintenance and tracking into the house the black material from the asphalt.