These are the last few weeks to have your driveway or parking lot repaired and ready for the cold weather! If you put it off until next year, it may end up costing more due to freezing and thawing damage and increased costs for materials! Call Matt right away to get on the schedule: 719-494-4894. Don’t forget Asphalt Advanced Services is your Front Range Colorado locally grown source for all of your Asphalt needs!
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The Colorado Division of Gaming parking lot at 350 W Carr Ave, Cripple Creek, CO got a facelift this summer. As we all know the Colorado winters in the mountains can be harsh on pavement. After a few seasons since the last repair, it was time to do it again. Bi-Annual repair of your parking lot can exponentially extend its lifespan and looks really professional! Call Matt at Asphalt Advanced Services today for a free quote! #719-494-4894
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Our parking lot is perhaps the most expensive investment on the property, so whatever you can do to extend its life (and hence reduce its life-cycle cost) helps you get more bang for your buck. According to research, a well managed 10,000-square-foot parking lot can save a property management $120,000 over a 15-year period when compared to the same parking lot that is not maintained. What does that have to do with sealcoating and adequate pavement maintenance? But there’s one more advantage to sealcoating: aesthetics,
Read moreThe combined impact of all these things that sealcoating does to a pavement is that it extends pavement life. And sealcoating is an essential part of that maintenance process. On average, asphalt can last between 10 and 35 years, depending on its usage. For example, a busy asphalt road will wear down much faster than a driveway that has minimal traffic. Colorado has severe extreme weather events that cause roads to crack and crumble more frequently, thus shortening their life span. With regular sealcoating,
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While this isn’t a benefit to the physical pavement, it can be useful. If you don’t believe me, try sweeping your concrete sidewalk with a push broom, then sweep a portion of the freshly seal-coated pavement with the same broom. Where the concrete tugs on the broom, the sealed pavement allows the broom to glide more easily across the surface. Colorado weather can be harsh on cars, driveways, and parking lots… Thus the cleaner and easier to clean surface that more inviting it looks to
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Asphalt pavement is a flexible surface as opposed to concrete pavement, which is rigid. Heavy trucks drive over asphalt and the pavement flexes under the weight. As pavement ages and becomes more brittle and flexes less, it can create cracking and damage. By applying sealer regularly you help the pavement retain its flexibility and slow its path to brittleness, thus extending its lifespan. Click here to check out this article on the life expectancy of your driveway!
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As asphalt pavement ages the tiny sand-size particles are the first things to wear away. Applying sealer that contains sand or boiler slag not only helps lock those particles in place but also replenishes the fines on the surface, providing some additional traction. This can be really beneficial in our crazy inclement weather in Colorado. Remember if you don’t like the weather here… just wait five minutes. Call Asphalt Advanced Services today to prepare for the inevitable!
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Because asphalt is petroleum-based, any petroleum-based liquid that leaks on it can essentially “join” with the binder and soften the asphalt. That opens the door to even quicker and possibly more-extensive damage to the pavement. If you’ve ever seen the black spots near the parking blocks in parking spaces – oil spots – you’ve seen the damage leaks can cause. Sealcoating will protect your pavement from leaks of this type. This is especially important on busy parking lots like this one at the Chick-fil-A on
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While you can’t prevent oxidation – the deterioration of the asphalt binder resulting from exposure to the air and the sun’s ultra-violet rays – timely sealcoating slows it. Colorado’s weather is extremely harsh on parking lots and driveways. This is due mostly to our altitude and extreme changes in temperature. Oxidation causes the pavement to become brittle, makes it easier for cracks to occur and to grow more quickly, and enables other deterioration as well. Applying sealer to the pavement surface adds a layer of
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Benefits of Sealcoating : Why Should I Sealcoat My Parking Lot? Nothing lasts forever – and that includes asphalt pavement. But that doesn’t mean you can’t extend the life of your asphalt parking lot (and improve its life-cycle cost) with timely repair and maintenance – and that includes sealcoating. To understand the impact pavement sealer can have on the life of your parking lot, it’s first important to understand the nature of asphalt pavement itself. Asphalt – the black stuff that coats the aggregate in
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