Asphalt Repair

Most asphalt repairs fail because someone treated the symptom and ignored the cause. A pothole, a sunken section, a patch of alligator cracking, those are what the surface does when something underneath has gone wrong. Throw cold patch in the hole and it pops right back out in a few weeks. We start by figuring out why the spot failed, because the fix is only as good as the diagnosis behind it.

In Southeast Michigan the answer is usually water and frost. Moisture gets into a crack or a low spot, freezes, expands, and breaks the pavement apart from below, and the spring thaw heaves whatever is left. Standing water that refreezes, a base that was never compacted, salt and plow damage, all of it traces back to the same place. So when the base is the problem, we dig out the failed material, rebuild and compact the foundation, and correct the drainage that started it.

Then we cut the patch to clean, square edges, lay hot mix, compact it to density, and seal the joints so water cannot get back into the seam and start the cycle over. We handle potholes, alligator cracking, sunken and depressed areas, crumbling edges, and utility-cut restoration for both homes and businesses, sized from a single bad spot to a whole property worth of repairs.