Over time, every asphalt surface will break down in some way or another. Most of the time, this will show itself as cracks, but other significant problems can also arise. The most common of these issues is potholes.
Luckily for you, the Indiana Seal Tech family is here with the tools, materials, and experience needed to make sure your asphalt surfaces get repaired properly and within budget.
As your driveway or parking lot ages, it will start to crack. These cracks will allow water to enter the base materials causing the entire structure to weaken. Applying a hot liquid rubber will seal the cracks and prevent water penetration into the base.
With the rough weather in Indiana comes potholes. As you know, they can cause serious issues that can lead to property damage, personal injury, or worse. That said, you should get them filled in as quickly as possible because, left unrepaired the pothole will continue to grow in size.
The type of pothole repair you need will depend on current weather temperatures and where the pothole is actually located.
Cold patches should be looked at only as a temporary solution for pothole problems. While we take pride in the work and service, we feel compelled to inform you that cold patches aren’t a permanent solution. Cold patches are best for when asphalt plants are closed for the season, but you need a pothole repaired.
If you have a pothole in your asphalt and need it repaired basically yesterday, but the weather isn’t warm enough to work with hot mix asphalt, cold patches are an ideal short-term fix. After the mix is laid into and over the pothole, it will be rolled for proper compacting into a flat, drivable surface.
If you have a pothole and need it repaired for the life of your driveway, parking lot, or other asphalted surface, hot patches are the permanent solution you’re looking for. Using more labor-intensive methods and much higher-quality materials, hot patching potholes in asphalt will cost a bit more than cold patches. On the other hand, the fact that hot patching is a permanent fix (rather than a bandaid), means you won’t have to worry about the same pothole showing up over and over again.
Where cold patching is just filling and compacting the hole, hot patching requires that the asphalt is cut out into a rectangle - and the size of that rectangle depends on how much of the asphalt is unsound due to the pothole’s depth and underlying shape. This old, broken asphalt is removed.
After that, we apply a bonding tack to the vertical edges, fill the space with fresh, new asphalt, and then compact it.
With this repair method, you can reasonably expect that surface to last as long as the rest of your asphalt.
Parking blocks (also known as “parking curbs,” “carstops,” or “those things at the end of parking spots that keep customers’ cars from rolling into my business”) sometimes need replacement. Additionally, some cities require parking blocks to meet their building code. Parking blocks help with traffic flow. In any case, if you need new parking blocks in your lot, Indiana Seal Tech is ready to help!
Depending on the traffic patterns around your property, you might need to install bollards (a.k.a. those short posts you sometimes see in parking lots and around walking areas near traffic) to make sure traffic moves as intended or as a method to protect landscaping, walkways, loading docks, fire hydrants, basically anything worth protecting from drivers.
Whether you need new bollard placement planning and installation or you have existing bollards that need repair, we’re ready for it all.
