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Asphalt Crack
Repair & Sealing, LLC.
When it comes to maintaining Connecticut's pavement,
people in and around Connecticut come to Asphalt Crack Repair and Sealing.
Whether it's a large job like a shopping mall, an industrial or office park , a
street in a residential area or gated community, a residential driveway, or
anything in between; Asphalt Crack Repair and Sealing is the company people
call.
We offer complete pavement maintenance services beginning
with the finest in hot crack sealing. Many people don't realize that
the single most cost-effective pavement maintenance
procedure is crack repair when it's properly done
(Federal SHRP data). Cracks in asphalt pavement allow water to penetrate the
surface and get into the base material below: and in asphalt pavement the base
material that you never see is what actually supports all the weight of the
traffic, so the asphalt on top can carry the load.
When cracks appear in
the asphalt over time either due to age, damage to the pavement, or unusual
weather conditions, the cracks begin to grow as they allow water to penetrate
and weaken the base material beneath them. In the winter time as the pavement
shrinks the cracks become larger allowing gravel and other incompressible
material to become lodged in the crack. Then when the summer heat comes in the
pavement expands the crack cannot close because of this incompressible material,
and it causes the crack fracture further, in effect "growing" and accelerating
the entire process.
Repairing by properly sealing cracks is not an easy task done with
cheap equipment; and if it's not done properly, it's of very little value
because the cheap crack sealant itself will separate from the crack and continue to
allow moisture to penetrate.
You will notice on our page about the work we do,
how we fix cracks properly so that they will withstand our sometimes brutal
winter conditions, and move with the crack as the pavement changes size when
summer comes.
After crack sealing the next most cost-effective
thing you can do to protect your valuable asphalt is Sealcoating.
Sealcoating can save you money by up to doubling the lifespan of your asphalt
pavement.
Most people don't know that in the last two years
asphalt prices
across the United States have doubled and in some cases tripled and quadrupled.
This has nothing to do with the price of oil, even though asphalt is made from
crude oil.
The cause is the new "low sulfur diesel fuel" mandated by the federal government
to improve our air quality. As the major refining companies designed methods to
refine this new low sulfur diesel fuel they
inadvertently eliminated all of the byproducts formerly left from the refining
of crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, motor oil, etc.
Asphalt has always been made from the "leftovers" after all of the expensive
products were removed from the crude oil. Thus the price of asphalt was less
than the price of other crude oil-based products because it was a way to get rid
of the "leftovers".
The problem today is there are no more "leftovers" and thus
asphalt prices continue to rise.
The industry has predicted that within a couple
of years, the price of the asphalt cement oil used to produce what you see as
asphalt mix; when combined with crushed stone and other materials being used for
paving, will continue to rise until it equals the price of diesel fuel. If that
is the case it will be several hundred percent higher than the cost just two
years ago. Because of this; the fluctuations in oil prices and gasoline prices
that you see on Wall Street and at your gas pump, do not have as much effect on
asphalt prices.
Asphalt prices do vary slightly going up and down but not nearly
so much as what you see at the gas pump. It's really simple economics. The oil
companies can make far more money selling diesel fuel than they can selling
asphalt at the current rate.
So what does all this mean to you?
It means that you need to save and protect the asphalt you have now because
repaving prices in the future will be shockingly higher than they are today or
ever were in the past.
Getting the most from your asphalt investment means more
than it ever has nowadays, because who knows what the prices of asphalt will be
in the coming years? We just know they'll be much higher than they are now. As
an example in this part of the country, a paving project which was priced only
two years ago, would now cost almost twice, if not over twice as much as it
was bid for just that short time ago.
That's where the sealing part of Asphalt Crack Repair, and Sealing comes in.
After we have properly sealed your cracks and thoroughly cleaned your parking
lot. We will apply the highest quality Sealcoating materials giving your
pavement years of protection from the elements and damage from such things as
leaking oil from vehicles, greatly extending the life of your pavement with the
added benefit of making it look brand-new.
We also provide sweeping and drainage installation services.
E-Mail Us
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1-800-913-3339
(860) 526-8823
P.O. Box 793
Westbrook, CT 06498
As we continue to finish this website and check back often and as you begin to
prepare your budget estimates for the 2010 season. Contact us now so that we can
stay in touch to make sure that you get the very best price as we negotiate our
prices for materials for the 2009 season.
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