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With Bortolo and Sons motto being “It’s what’s underneath that counts!”, we take pride in ensuring that the base of your paving project is as solid as can be to ensure that your new driveway will last as long as possible.
While asphalt and concrete are similar, there are some unique differences between them. See the chart to the right to get a better idea of which surface is best suited to your project. The tabs below the before and after pictures go into more detail about the differences mentioned in the comparison chart.
To see what an asphalt or concrete driveway will cost you, please either give us a call at: 604-298-8775 or use our quote request form.
Just as each home is unique, so are your choices when it comes to driveways. An asphalt driveway can offer the same appearance as the roadway you drove into it from. Where a concrete driveway can literally offer a black and white difference between the roadway and your property. Each product offers a different appearance and finishing characteristics.
Concrete provides many more options when it comes to different finishes. Staining or tinting in a vast array of colors is possible, as well as being able to create patterns using different colours within the same driveway. In addition to colouring, concrete can be stamped, etched or engraved into different patterns to create a unique look. But it doesn’t end there. You can customize the texture with brushing, aggregates or even polishing to a smooth finish. By using a combination of these finishes, you have a virtually unlimited number of options to create a paved surface as unique as you and your home.
Asphalt (aka blacktop) is much more limited in finishing options. Asphalt must be rolled and compressed, so there isn’t much available in the way of unique finishes. If you’re looking for a custom pattern or texture, it can’t provide the same finishes as concrete can, but lately there have been some options available when it comes to colouring and patterns that can be applied, even to an already existing surface.
To get a better idea of different finishing options please see our Custom Colours, Patterns & Textures page for more information.
Cold Canadian winters and warm hot summers each provide a unique challenge to a paved surface. Climate is always an important consideration.
Concrete has a tendency to crack and can suffer from frost heaving in cold, freezing conditions. Also, salt can create a pitted surface in the concrete which can leave marks or a blotchy appearance in your driveway.
Asphalt, on the other hand, has issues in hotter climates. The high heat of a hot summer day can cause the tar in blacktop to soften and even deform under extreme heat. It’s naturally darker colour doesn’t do itself any favours when it comes to heat absorption either. Items that are heavy and don’t have enough surface area to spread the weight (such as a motorcycle kickstand) can dig into and damage the surface under these conditions.
Your professional paving contractor should understand the local climate be able to make the right recommendations to ensure the right material for your application.
Asphalt driveways should be sealed after they have had 6 months to a year to fully cure. After the initial sealing, it should be reapplied every 2-3 years. Many products are available for this at your local hardware store, and no special machinery is required, so this task can be accomplished by almost any home owner. With a good base, proper sealing and regular maintenance a blacktop driveway can last up to 30 years.
While concrete driveways do not necessarily need to be sealed to ensure a long lifespan, sealing a concrete driveway can prevent stains and discolouration. Concrete driveways stain easier than blacktop and require a degreaser to remove oil based stains. We highly recommend sealing a concrete driveway every few years, especially if you have a custom colour, finish or texture in order to preserve it’s best appearance.
Learn more about Driveway Maintenance – Asphalt and Concrete.
Asphalt is generally much cheaper to install than concrete. On average, the cost per square foot for blacktop will be considerably cheaper than concrete. However price fluctuation due to the cost of crude oil can affect an asphalt driveway’s price. Maintenance costs for blacktop can be higher than a concrete driveway due to it requiring a sealant be applied more often.
Concrete has many factors that can increase it’s cost. The different custom colours, patterns & textures can all increase the cost of a concrete driveway over a plain concrete surface. Even a basic concrete driveway will be more expensive due to the required forms, rebar and construction & curing time. However the plethora of different finishing options make it an attractive choice and can add enough value and curb appeal to your home to offset the initial higher cost.
Cracks in both asphalt and concrete driveways can be repaired.
Asphalt cracks are much easier to repair and blend into the original surface. The very nature of asphalt’s tar base and flexibility offer an easy to repair surface that concrete simply cannot match.
Concrete repairs meanwhile, are more obvious due to discolouration, fading and weathering. While they can be repaired to ensure a long useful life span, asphalt repairs appear more like the original paved surface than concrete does after being repaired.
With certain clarity, Cory Roth can recall how he spent much of his childhood at Summit Motorsports Park and other race tracks watching his dad, Al, bracket-race his ’67 Mustang and ’61 Falcon, and how he was allowed to stay up late to help work on the cars.
The lessons he learned helped him down the road, as he climbed into his own race car, a stunning red ’87 Mustang, to tackle Street Stock and Street Bandit in Fun Ford Weekend and Hot Street in the National Mustang Racers Association. He put his name on the map in both series by running to high eight-second elapsed-times via a naturally aspirated small-block Ford that he and his dad built and backed with a G-Force 5-speed, and before long, he earned multiple wins and the ’99 Street Stock championship.
When he got his hands on a blue ’92 Mustang in ’06, he and his dad built for it a 416 cubic-inch small-block Ford based around a cast-iron Dart block, and they topped it with Trick Flow Specialties 11R 205cc heads and a Trick Flow Specialties Track Heat intake. To feed the street-strip car pump gas, they chose a Barry Grant 950 CFM carburetor, and to help put the power to the pavement, they chose a C4 transmission.
Roth had gone as quick as 9.67 in the car in summertime heat with a Trick Flow Specialties Stage 3 hydraulic cam, but recently swapped it with a Trick Flow Specialties Stage 5 cam, picked up to a 9.65 during a recent test session at Summit Motorsports Park and is poised to pick up even further.
Now Roth, who lives in Marshallville, Ohio, with his wife, Brooke; son, Cameron, and daughter, Cara, is guiding the sixteen-year-old Cameron as he turns a ’98 Mustang into a street-strip car.
Catch Roth at the highly-anticipated Trick Flow Specialties Fun Ford Reloaded, this weekend, July 8-10, 2016 at Summit Motorsports Park, 1300 State Route 18, Norwalk, Ohio. It features a separate race each day, a whopping $20,000 purse, and the cost to enter each race is just $1. Roth will likely race his red ’87 Mustang one day, and aim for high 8.90s, and race his blue ’92 Mustang the other two days, and aim for high 9.50s. Admission for adults is $15 for one day; $25 for Saturday and Sunday or $35 for Friday-Sunday. Admission for children ages 6-12 is $5 daily. For information, call 419-668-5555 or visit www.summitmotorsportspark.com.
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In the silence, things are revealed.
Things that cannot be heard in the noise of modern life.
For the most part, our culture fears silence because of its revelatory power, both good and bad. We do have so many secrets.
Usually, the first thing us humans encounter in the silence is our thoughts. So we fear the silence because, we fear our own thoughts. And wouldn’t you know it? The pesky ones we try so hard to push away are usually the first to surface.
That’s a drag, so instead we block out the silence. We come home, we go to the fridge and we turn on the tv. We push our consciousness through a kind of predictable tunnel. And the tunnel has a weight, a momentum that is hard to break.
It takes a big experience like falling in love or the loss of a loved one to crack open the tunnel. But the thing is, no matter how life altering the experience, we have an uncanny way of eventually finding our way back to the tunnel where things are safe, warm and pretty doggone mediocre. Well, lately, mediocrity is even giving the tunnel too much credit. We’ve sunk somewhere below mediocrity into absurdity.
Then every once-in-awhile, in the silence you recognize an exciting thought that leads you down the rabbit hole. It stirs something within you, like the memory of a distant voice. Maybe it is hardly a voice at all and more like a feeling. It stirs you to action. Maybe you write it down. Maybe you make a collage. Maybe you fix something. Maybe you share your idea with another. Maybe you make the bed.
Or maybe you just shut up and listen. And then respond. Listen. Respond. You begin to have a conversation with what is. In the silence, our senses unfurl, like tendrils. We hear the wind. Bird. We smell the air, and perhaps notice that when the sun comes out for a moment from behind the clouds on a grayish day, the grass responds to the sun by releasing a stronger scent. Smell the greeting of the grass and the sun.
It is all so alive.
In the silence, one can slip into the role of the third person who watches. From that perspective, when someone, let’s say, cuts you off in traffic, you become frustrated for a moment, sure. You are yanked back down to a lower consciousness. But if you’ve been practicing as the watcher, you are more easily able to slip back into higher consciousness.
I don’t mean to imply that the higher consciousness is a way to avoid emotion. You feel the anger but in the silence, you more easily and quickly move to another place, like finding shade on a hot day. Why stay hot when the shade is right next to you?
Maybe to be enlightened means that you live in that higher consciousness all the time, or, I don’t know, 90% of the time. Those people, from what I’ve heard, have had some kind of major divine intervention. For most of us poor schmucks it’s just something we have to practice. It’s hard for a beginner like me and very time consuming, but also cleansing, like a good poop.
“And one should never underestimate the satisfaction of a good poop, I always say,” says Mr. Octopus, who is, pretty much, enlightened.
It’s called higher consciousness because it lifts you higher. Duh! Sort of like being high, but with better side affects.
And I suspect there’s more to the silence than even all of that. It’s exciting. But for now, this is as far as I’ve gotten.
So, what the hell? Turn off that tv once-in-awhile. Turn off that radio. Let the emptiness emerge and let the quiet part begin! Whoop whoop! The secrets are not as bad as we think. The truth is always better, even though its emergence is sometimes painful.
“Like a poop,” says Mr. Octopus.
“Yes, just like a hard poop,” I agree.
In silence we can hear the truth of ourselves, and, well, it’s not all bad! Geesh!
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This two day course will cover all the aspects of clinical evaluation in line with the European Medical device regulations and applicable guidance documents. The course will provide you with the tools and skills you will need to produce a high quality clinical evaluation report for all your medical devices. You will understand the detail of what clinical data is needed, how to collect it, analyse it and produce a clinical evaluation report that is acceptable to the Regulatory Authorities and Notified Bodies. You will learn how the process fits into the development of a medical device and also the post market aspects of clinical evidence. The course includes case studies and template documents which you will be able to utilise to produce your own high quality clinical data evidence documentation.
Why and when is it necessary to conduct a clinical evaluation?
Where does clinical evaluation sit within the medical device process?
Why is clinical evidence important?
Who and what is involved in the clinical evaluation process?
What regulations govern clinical evaluations and what guidance documents should clinical evaluations be conducted to?
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Janette Benaddi is a business mentor, international speaker/trainer and consultant to the medical device industry. Janette has over 25 years’ experience of managing pre and post market clinical studies in both devices and pharmaceuticals. Janette has worked with several multinational organizations in various clinical, regulatory and marketing roles. She has extensive experience of conducting clinical studies with medical device products as well as regulatory expertise for CE marking of devices. Specifically she has been involved in writing and reviewing hundreds of Clinical evaluation reports for the medical device industry, she has also provided training to Notified bodies in this subject.
Janette qualified as a registered nurse in 1984, she has a BSc in Management studies, a Diploma in Company Direction, and a Diploma in Management studies, holds a teaching certificate and is a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Director. Janette sits on several committees in the device community and industry and has been an instrumental advocate of improving and advancing medical device research in the UK. Janette has published several articles relating to medical device regulation and clinical studies.
VanHoose popped up to ss (0-2 SFF).
Curtis popped up to 3b (1-1 SB).
Jackson doubled to left field (1-2 BKS).
Holtz struck out swinging (1-2 FFBS).
Kline tripled to left field (1-1 BK).
Kline scored on a wild pitch.
Meents flied out to cf (3-2 BFBBFF).
Farmer popped up to 3b (1-2 KBK).
Bales singled to second base (2-2 KSBFBFF); Barber advanced to second.
Sutter walked (3-0 BBBB); Bales advanced to second; Barber advanced to third.
Slider reached on a fielder's choice (0-2 KK); Sutter out at second 2b unassisted.
Swanson struck out looking (1-2 BKKFK).
B. Bonno singled through the left side (2-2 BKBFF).
K. Pate doubled to left field, RBI (0-0); B. Bonno scored.
Kennedy lined out to ss (2-2 BSFBF).
Bamber flied out to cf (1-2 BFK).
Rayburn singled through the left side (1-0 B).
Hackerd reached on a fielder's choice (0-2 FKF); Rayburn out at second 3b to 2b.
Kline grounded out to 3b, SAC, bunt (1-1 BF); Hackerd advanced to second.
Meents popped up to 2b (1-0 B).
VanHoose reached on a fielding error by 2b (0-0).
Curtis singled to shortstop (0-0); VanHoose advanced to second.
Jackson doubled to center field, RBI (2-2 FBKB); Curtis advanced to third; VanHoose scored, unearned.
Jackson out at second c to 2b, caught stealing; Curtis out at home c unassisted, caught stealing.
Holtz grounded out to ss (1-2 SBK).
Farmer singled through the left side (0-1 K).
Barber doubled to left field, RBI (2-2 BFFB); Farmer scored.
Bales grounded out to ss (3-0 BBB); Barber advanced to third.
Slider grounded out to 2b, RBI (0-2 KK); Sutter advanced to third; Barber scored.
Rayburn doubled to left field, RBI (3-2 BFBFBFF); Sutter scored.
Hackerd doubled to left center, RBI (2-2 FBFB); Rayburn scored.
Kline singled up the middle, RBI (2-2 FFBB); Hackerd scored.
Meents homered to left field, 2 RBI (2-2 FKBFB); Kline scored.
I. Helm to p for Allen.
Farmer struck out swinging (1-2 KBFFS).
Swanson grounded out to ss (0-1 F).
B. Bonno doubled down the lf line (1-0 B).
K. Pate struck out looking (1-2 SBFFK).
Kennedy grounded out to 3b (0-0).
Barber singled to shortstop (0-0).
Bales reached on a fielding error by 2b (0-0); Rolon advanced to second.