Worn, cracked driveways and parking areas make your home less desirable. After spending thousands to pave your driveway, protecting the surface is important.
Professional residential and commercial sealcoating services help prevent damage to your driveway or parking area. Sun, vehicles, and weather can all cause cracking, crumbling, and fading.
American Asphalt’s expertise in asphalt sealers is undeniable. Our licensed, bonded, and insured asphalt experts bring 15 years of experience to every sealcoating job. Check out our asphalt paving gallery to view our quality work.
Benefits of Asphalt Sealers
Your pavement isn’t meant to last forever without proactive maintenance. With traffic, the asphalt wears down. It's easier for substances like water, sand, automotive fluids, and snow to enter fine cracks.
Those cracks grow over time, eventually causing the pavement to crumble. You end up with potholes that aren’t just unsightly; they’re also hazardous.
Asphalt sealers provide a waterproof coating over your driveway or parking area. That keeps water from seeping into the asphalt and causing damage from winter freezes and summer heavy rain. It also keeps liquids like gasoline from causing pavement deterioration.
With a fresh coat of asphalt sealer on your driveway or parking lot, the surface looks new. It enhances curb appeal while also heightening safety and protecting your investment. It lasts several years, depending on traffic volume, and another coat when needed continues to protect the surface.
How Asphalt Sealing Works
American Asphalt’s Danville, Virginia, asphalt contractors come to your home or business and clean the surface. This includes sweeping all sand and silica from the surface. Grass and weeds are removed before sealcoating occurs.
Pavement is cleaned to remove chemical solvents. Cleaning is followed by a primer coating that covers the surface of your driveway or parking area. The primer is essential for the adhesion of the asphalt sealer. If there are any exposed cracks, they’re filled with crack-sealing tar.
After completing the other steps, an asphalt sealcoating product made from rubberized polymer epoxy latex is applied. This finishes the project. Now, you must wait for the asphalt sealer to dry before you park or use the asphalt surface again, usually this takes a day. Until the sealer cures, avoid making sharp turns or spinning tires.
When Is Sealcoating the Best Option?
Sealcoating is best when your pavement is in good shape. If your driveway or parking area has surface cracks, we apply an asphalt sealer to resurface it.
That coating prevents further water damage. Every few years, a new application of asphalt sealer keeps your pavement looking brand new.
If your pavement is riddled with potholes, missing pavement, or major cracks, our asphalt sealing specialist will explain the best options for you. Repaving isn’t always the only option. Pavement repairs and sealcoating are often preferred and cost-effective.
Our Danville, Virginia, sealcoating services give you an attractive, safe surface for biking, playing basketball, or parking your car.
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