Asphalt repair in Edmonton, quoted by what it needs
Most surfaces do not need replacing. They need the water kept out of them. We quote the repair that matches the damage, and say plainly when a repair will not hold so you are not paying twice for the same square metre.
Single cracks running the length of a drive are shrinkage and movement. They matter because they let water down to the base, and filling them is cheap compared with what happens after a winter of water getting underneath.
A patch where the surface has broken into small interlocking pieces is different. The base below has lost its strength, so sealing the top does nothing. That area needs cutting out full depth and rebuilding.
Sunken areas and water that stands after rain point the same way. Both mean the ground moved, so the section is lifted and re-based rather than topped up. If it is widespread, replacement is the cheaper answer and we will say so.
Full-depth patch
How repairs run
How an Edmonton asphalt repair is done
Look at the pattern, not the hole
The shape of the cracking tells us whether this is a surface problem or the base giving way. The answer changes the repair and the price.
Cut back to sound material
Patches are cut square and taken back to asphalt that is still solid. A patch poured into a ragged hole fails at its edges within a season.
Rebuild the base where it has gone
Where the granular layer has washed out it is replaced and compacted. Skipping this is the reason a patch sinks again in the same spot.
Compact and seal the joint
Hot mix is compacted level with the surrounding surface and the joint is sealed, because the edge of a patch is where water tries to get in next.
Repair services
Asphalt repairs we carry out in Edmonton
Six repairs, matched to what the damage is actually doing.
If the damage is in patches and the rest is sound, repair is the cheaper answer by a wide margin. Once interlocking cracking covers most of the area, repairs stop being economic.
Almost always because the base underneath was never replaced. Filling the hole without rebuilding what washed out leaves the same void under a new surface, and the weight of a vehicle finds it again within a season.
Crack sealing needs a dry surface above a certain temperature to bond. In cold months we would rather book it for spring than take money for work that will not stick.
A full-depth patch with the base rebuilt lasts as long as the surface around it. A surface fill over a failed base is a season, which is why we say which one you are buying.
Yes, and lots are usually staged so sections stay open. Loaded vehicles make base failures show up faster, so lots tend to need repair on a shorter cycle.
New asphalt is darker and stays that way for months until it oxidises. A sealcoat over the whole surface afterwards is what makes the repair stop being visible.
