Crack filling is an essential part to proper pavement maintenance. Crack filling will extend the life and ensure longer lasting quality of your pavement.
Asphalt is flexible and designed to crack. This makes it easy to repair and allow the repair to blend in.
Cracks must be filled in order to prevent further damage to your pavement. Cracks allow water to seep into asphalt and base. This can be devastating during the fall, winter, and spring seasons. Water expands and contracts with change in temperature. If the cracks are not filled, the frozen water will tear apart your asphalt, causing more cracks and potholes to occur.
Asphalt pavements can be easily patched because of how they are made. If only a certain area is in need of repair, the whole road or driveway does not need to be torn up to fix it. Traffic can also drive on the patch that same day.
Sealcoating is a cost effective way to keep your ashpalt looking like new while extending its useable lifespan for years to come.
Sealing your pavement protects it from several harsh environmental effects including dirt, debris, sunlight, and water. Dirt and debris wear down your pavement, sunlight destroys the oil in your ashpalt, and water can cause the asphalt base to fail, resulting in cracks and potholes.
Sealcoating also protects your driveway from gas and oil spills, and winter deicing salts.
Sealing your driveway also gives it a like new appeareance, adding cosmetic value.
Before your driveay is sealcoated, our crews clean the pavement, edges of the driveway, treat oil spots, fix any tire or wear marks, and fill any cracks
Pitlik & Wick also includes a 1 year warranty on our sealcoat, our competitors do not.
Snowmobile crossings are an effective way to keep roadways in good condition by preventing damage from snowmobiles.
Snowmobiles over time will wear down a roadway where they cross. As the road wears, a depression forms creating a bump in the road. Eventually this will wear down completely and cause the asphalt to break away in chunks.
These specially designed crossings prevent wear and ensure safety for vehicles using the road or highway
Chipsealing is an effective way to maintain your asphalt. Chipseal has several key factors in order to keep asphalt in good condition.
Chipseal is placed on the road by first applying an oil and then fine rock aggregate on top. The rock is then rolled into the oil ensuring good adhesion.
The rock provides a wearing surface and protects the asphalt beneath from oxidizing and wearing away due to sun, water, and vehicle traffic. During this process small cracks are also filled, preventing water from entering the roadbase.
A shoulder is necessary to ensure long useable life of asphalt pavement. Shouldering also adds cosmetic value as well as several other benefits.
A shoulder helps prevent a road from cracking. It prevents a road from pushing outward as vehicles drive on it.
It also helps prevent a road from washing out. If there is no shoulder during a heavy rainstorm or where water flows, the edges around the asphalt will wash away. This leaves the asphalt with no support and the asphalt will crack and break off in chunks.
Erosion is also controlled because a shoulder helps water transition from the road to the ditch.
A shoulder also makes the roadway wider, promoting safer driving as cars have a place to pull over and pedestrians have a place to walk.
Thermoplastic striping offers many benefits compared to traditional striping methods. Traditional paint is only overlaid ontop of asphalt, thermoplastic actually adheres itself to asphalt. This makes a strong bond and is virtually impossible to tear off. This also means parking lots will not have to be re-striped every few years to maintain striping marks.
Chipseal
Crack Fill/Seal
Damage Repair/Patching
Sealcoat
Shouldering
Snowmobile Crossings
Thermoplastic Striping
