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The Secret to a Long-Lasting Asphalt Driveway
When professionally installed, a northern Virginia homeowner can expect an asphalt driveway to give 20 to 30 years of smooth, reliable service with minimum maintenance requirements. Asphalt is an attractive, durable, cost effective paving material, but asphalt itself does not determine how long your drive will last. The key to a long-lasting asphalt drive is its subgrade. Done right, it will give you decades of trouble-free service. Done wrong and you could be looking at cracks, crumbling edges, and potholes in a year or two.
What’s Causing Puddles to Form in My Asphalt Driveway
Northern Virginia gets its fair share of rain. Loudoun and Fairfax counties average 43” per year compared to a national average of 37”. If your asphalt driveway sprouts mini lily ponds or small lakes after a heavy rain, you have a condition that will inevitably lead to your asphalt failing requiring a replacement drive to be installed.
Should I Resurface or Replace My Asphalt Driveway
An asphalt driveway with multiple cracks and potholes is not only an unattractive eyesore facing you and your neighbors each day, it also lowers the curb appeal and property value of your home as well. It needs to be fixed. The question becomes, do you resurface/repave it, or do you dig it up and replace it.
Paving Contractors Serving Northern Virginia
There’s no shortage of asphalt paving contractors to choose from in Northern Virginia. For decades, NOVA has seen an explosion in residential and commercial construction and that activity included thousands of asphalt driveways, private roads, and commercial parking lots. It’s not surprising that the number of asphalt paving companies expanded significantly to meet the area’s growing paving needs.
Driveway Paving Company Serving McLean, Fairfax, and Other NOVA Communities
If you live in Northern Virginia and your asphalt driveway is filled with cracks you were going to repair yourself last year, or the year before, and are now more like chasms, it’s time to call the pros at Standard Paving. If 25% or more of your asphalt driveway has deep cracks (or even potholes) there is no amount of store-bought crack filler or cold patch material that can satisfactorily fix it.
When to Sealcoat an Asphalt Driveway or Parking Lot
If your Northern Virginia home has an asphalt driveway, or you have an asphalt parking lot at your business, sealcoating is an important maintenance process that can significantly extend the life of your asphalt surface. While asphalt is the best paving choice with the highest value for many applications, it’s important to remember what it’s made of.
The Leftover Asphalt Scam
Almost every neighborhood in Northern Virginia from Haymarket to Alexandria and McLean to Herndon have been targeted by unscrupulous asphalt contractors pushing the “leftover asphalt” scam. The first thing you should know about the “leftover asphalt scam” is that professional asphalt contractors never have asphalt leftover from a job. Asphalt is too expensive. Jobs are carefully calculated, and a legitimate contractor isn’t going to order an extra 20% of the stuff just to be safe.
Avoid These Asphalt Driveway Paving Scams!
For the most part, the asphalt paving contractors who operate in Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince William Counties are legitimate business enterprises. But in asphalt paving, like other home improvement businesses, there are unscrupulous contractors who take advantage of a homeowner’s lack of knowledge to squeeze more profit out of a project. The net result is a subpar job that doesn’t deliver what the homeowner bought, or thought they were buying.
