Parking lots · Patching & construction
Parking lot patching, overlays and new construction.
Potholes patched, failed areas cut out and repaved, worn lots milled and overlaid, and new lots built with the base and drainage that decide how long they last.
What is included
The job, in order.
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Assessment
What has failed and why: a bad base, a drainage problem, a plow, or simple age. The repair follows the cause.
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Patching
Potholes and small failures cut square, the base compacted, hot mix placed and rolled; infrared repair where a seamless patch matters.
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Cut-outs
Alligatored areas cut out to the base, the base rebuilt if it is the problem, and repaved.
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Milling and overlay
The old surface milled off and a new lift placed over a sound base, with drains and edges raised to match.
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New construction
Excavation, drainage, compacted stone base and two lifts of asphalt to a plan that moves water to the catch basins.
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Finish
Curb stops, bollards, signs and lines; the first sealcoat a year later.
When you need it
The signs.
- Potholes that come back every spring
- Alligator cracking over an area, not a line
- Standing water that does not reach a drain
- A lot past twenty years that has not been sealed
- A catch basin sinking
What it costs
Patching is priced by the area and the depth; overlays and new lots by the square yard of asphalt and the base work under it. The site walk has the number.
Questions
About patching & construction.
Also under parking lots:
- Sealcoating · Two coats of sealer with sand over a cleaned, crack-filled lot, in sections, with fresh lines on top and the lot open by morning.
- Crack filling · Cracks cleaned, heated and filled with hot-pour rubber before the water and the winter get into them.
- Line striping & ADA · Stalls, arrows, fire lanes and the accessible stalls, aisles and signs the 2010 ADA Standards require, laid out to a plan and painted to last.
Patch or repave?
Patch when the failures are spots in an otherwise sound lot; overlay when the surface is tired across the lot but the base is good; rebuild when the base has gone. The sealcoat or resurface article gives the signs of each stage.
What is infrared repair?
The existing asphalt is heated with an infrared panel until it is workable, raked, blended with fresh mix and recompacted, leaving no seam for water to get into. Good for potholes and utility cuts; not for failed base. The instruments article describes it.
Reading
From the articles.
Sealcoat or resurface: which your lot actually needs
Sealer protects asphalt; it does not repair it. The signs that say which stage a lot is at, and what each costs.
Read onLaser grading, moisture meters and infrared repair
The instruments on the truck that were not there twenty years ago, and what each one prevents.
Read onWhat skipping one sealcoat cycle really costs a parking lot
Seal it on a cycle, or pave it later for many times the money. The years in between, in round units.
Read onFree estimates
Get a number you can plan around.
Send the address and what you have in mind. We walk the site, measure it, and send a written proposal with the scope spelled out: what gets done, what it costs, and when it fits the season.
The yard
4000 East 86th Street, Cleveland, OH 44105
Off Broadway Avenue, south of downtown, ten minutes from I-77 and I-490.
Serving Cuyahoga, Summit, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Geauga, Portage, Stark and Ashtabula counties. Municipal, school, club, HOA and commercial work; residential courts by the job.