Asphalt Paving | Tar and Chip Paving Front Royal
If you have a Front Royal, VA property with a paved surface that needs help or replacement, call the professionals at locally owned Standard Paving for assistance. With over 30 years’ experience as asphalt paving contractors, our family owned business has developed a reputation for exceptional work product, 100% customer satisfaction, on time delivery and affordability. We offer traditional blacktop paving and the more affordable and distinctive tar and chip paving for driveways, parking lots, and private lanes. We are staffed and equipped to handle any paving project large or small.
If you have a paved surface that is showing potholes, crumbling, or graying out, give us a call at 844-266-7283. We will arrange for an experienced estimator to inspect the project, discuss the options with you, and prepare a detailed, guaranteed estimate of price. The condition of your asphalt surface, be it a driveway, parking area, or private road, has an enormous impact on the overall property value. Do yourself a favor and find out what needs to be done and how much it will cost to bring your paved surfaces back to pristine condition. We can help you with that.
- Residential Asphalt Paving
- Commercial Chipseal Paving
- Paving for parking lots
- Asphalt laying services
- Asphalt Installation
- Driveway replacement
- Patching / Grading
- Excavation
- Site Preparation
- Chipseal roads installation and maintenance
- Coating parking areas
- Driveway construction, installation and maintenance
Expert, Affordable. Asphalt Paving Services
A professionally installed and maintained hot-mix asphalt surface has a service life of 20 to 30 years. Its smooth, slate black appearance is a focal point of your property’s curb appeal. Over the past three decades Standard Paving has installed literally thousands of asphalt driveways, roads, and parking lots and we are recently getting orders to replace those original installations.
So, if asphalt lasts so long, why is yours falling apart or showing signs of distress now? Causes of asphalt failure frequently include improper preparation of the subbase in the initial installation, use of subpar materials, and in the case of high traffic areas, a lack of maintenance. At Standard Paving, much of our work involves rehabbing these surfaces using a variety of processes.
- Resurfacing Asphalt Driveways: This is the fastest and least involved of the driveway solutions. If you notice cracking and the cracks are ¼” deep or shallower, or if you have stains from car fluids or other chemicals, we can make a quick fix. In some cases, an application of sealcoating is all that is required, otherwise we can grind off the top layer of asphalt and replace it with a fresh coat. We will compact it to ensure a solid bond with the underlying coat.
- Repaving Asphalt Driveways: If you have multiple deep cracks, crumbling edges, potholes, and low spots, the solution is usually repaving. Our crew will identify, cut, and remove structurally failed asphalt, level up the drive, fill in the holes, and then air blow the drive clean. We use a self-leveling paver and the skill of an experienced operator to apply a new coat of asphalt. That’s followed by a vibrating compactor to create a hard, stable surface. The edges are trimmed and compacted by hand.
- Replacing Driveways: If your driveway is crumbling or graying out, it was either improperly installed and maintained, or it has reached the end of its service life. Either way, the only way to fix it is to replace it with a new one. Excavation equipment will remove the existing drive and the subbase will be leveled and firmed up. From there the process is identical as repaving.
All of the equipment we use is state of the art and more importantly, operated by skilled, experienced crew members who take exceptional pride in the work they do.
Asphalt Installation:
Step 1
Our own full time experienced crew installs the asphalt with a heated self propelled paver and hand tools.
Step 2
The hot asphalt is compacted with an industrial, steel drum, vibrating roller, to form a hard surface.
Step 3
The vertical edges are hand finished and compacted for maximum durability and neat appearance.
Tar and Chip Paving – An Attractive Alternative for Front Royal Homeowners
Front Royal is in a beautiful and historic part of northern Virginia which is a perfect setting for a century old paving process known as tar and chip or chipseal. First developed as a way to pave roads in rural areas that were too far distant from asphalt plants, tar and chip remains popular with road departments because of its relatively low cost.
Standard asphalt is mixed at a plant and then transported to a job site. Tar and chip is “assembled” at the job site saving transportation and plant costs. Tar and chip is a mixture of liquid asphalt and chip stone gravel. The subbase preparation is the same as traditional asphalt but that’s where the two methods separate. With tar and chip, a layer of liquid asphalt is sprayed down followed by a layer of chip stone gravel. A roller compacts the gravel into the liquid asphalt creating a rock hard, all weather surface that requires little to no maintenance.
Standard asphalt is smooth and black. Tar and chip has a pebbly texture and the color depends on the color of the chip stone you use. And that rustic look is what makes it perfect for Front Royal properties. It also provides excellent traction for cars and pedestrians in the snow. It can be used on gravel roads, repaving existing asphalt or concrete surfaces assuming they aren’t too far gone, and new installations.
Did we mention tar and cheap paving is significantly less expensive than standard hot mix asphalt paving?
If you would like more information on this paving process, give us a call at 844-266-7283 and we will be happy to answer all your questions. Standard Paving is one of the few residential asphalt paving contractors that offers tar and chip paving and has the experienced crews to put it down professionally.
Whether you are considering traditional asphalt or tar and chip for your paving project, you can trust Standard Paving to deliver the project professionally, on time, and on budget.
We hold a Class A Virginia Contractor license, are fully insured, use only our own state-of-the-art paving equipment, warranty our work and, most importantly, we have the best paving craftsmen staffing our crews. If you are going to do this, you deserve to get it done right. Call us now!
