Need to Repair Damaged Asphalt On Your Savage Property?
When winter freeze cycles arrive, that trapped water freezes into ice, expanding forcefully and pushing the asphalt upward. As spring thaws arrive, the displaced base shifts, leaving hollow pockets that cause the surface to collapse under vehicle loads.
Allowing pavement defects to go unaddressed on your Savage property creates serious safety risks and repair costs. J&W Asphalt stops this cycle using state-of-the-art infrared thermal technology, which reheats the surrounding pavement and blends fresh hot mix directly into the damaged area, forming a continuous, watertight bond without cold seams or saw-cut joints.
Here are the most common types of asphalt pavement damage we can repair and replace in Savage:
- Surface Cracking (Alligator & Hairline): Caused by natural binder oil evaporation, heavy traffic loads, and intense sun exposure. Untreated hairline fractures allow moisture into the foundation, where freeze-thaw cycles quickly turn them into widespread "alligator" web cracking.
- Settlement & Low Spots: Forms when sections of your driveway or parking lot sink lower than the surrounding surface. Typically caused by sub-base erosion or inadequate initial soil compaction, these low spots pool water that accelerates asphalt breakdown.
- Potholes (Full-Depth Failure): Occurs when moisture completely breaks down the underlying support aggregate, causing the surface layer to collapse. Potholes present serious tripping hazards and vehicle risk, requiring complete hot-mix fusion to restore strength.
- Edge Cracking & Raveling: Develops along the exposed borders of driveways and lots where lateral support is weak. We rebuild the compacted base edge and thermally fuse fresh hot-mix asphalt directly to the existing perimeter.