What we do

Potholes

When Winter has passed and hopefully Spring has arrived, we survey all of our tarmac (on St Benedict’s Day) (a moveable feast) (St Benedict is the patron saint of potholers..) and we give every pothole a name then schedule what we can for filling, ideally during the summer months.

In the early years, our approach to potholes was merely to rough fill, as economically as possible.
This was in order to husband our resources and be ready to take on some bigger projects from time to time.

However, it soon became obvious to us all that “rough fill” did not cope at all well in some areas.  Therefore, we nowadays seek competitive quotes for the ‘professional’ (10 years guarantee) repair of as many potholes as we can from year to year. See our Potholes page for the current situation.

Alas, our resources are limited and there are projects that we would really like to save up for, but in the longer term we hope ideally to reach a position where we can budget for a schedule of road improvement works, leading to the formal adoption of our roads by Allerdale BC.  We live in hopes..