Concrete front path - broken and cracked etc - how to sort?

[Pidge23]

We have a Victorian terrace and the king term plan is to put a lovely tiled front path in, but unfortunately we won’t be able to do that for a while.

The current front path is concrete, cracked and uneven with a couple of small potholes! It’s a small straight path. Is there anything we can do in the meantime? As well as being unsafe it’s also unsightly.

Long term, not king term!

I had this in a terrace house - my quick fix: buy quick setting cement (post set the sort you fix fence posts in) and use it to carefully fill the potholes, cracks and level up the uneven bits. You do have to work quickly - I mixed small quantities and did the cracks first pushing it in with an old wooden spatula from the kitchen, but when topping up the uneven bits and potholes at the sides of the path, provided you use boards at the sides of the path to hold it in the low bits, and keep it slightly runny it'll level off nicely under gravity.

PS don't do this when freezing temperatures are planned. I tiled straight over the top a year or so later, 40 years on looks like the tiles are still there (walked past just before Christmas). Might be they re-used them and re-
laid the path though!

Don’t do anything with cement or concrete if the predicted temperatures are going to fall below 5*C over the following week or so (including at night).
You can fill the potholes as suggested above, and then maybe pour a self-levelling exterior screed over the top to give a uniform surface. Make sure it’s one that can be walked on and doesn’t require a layer of something on top.
Or get some cheap tiles to put on top. There are loads of reclaimed quarry tiles on eBay for a cheap fix.