Neglected asphalt pavement is visually irritating, inconvenient and uncomfortable for its users, and may hinder the sale of the house.
Not to mention that what’s worn out accelerates overall wear and tear. After 20 years of neglect, for example, compounded by winter damage caused by heavy snowploughs, you’ll find dozens of cracks, gouges, a few potholes, a couple of craters with crumbling edges and a profusion of weeds. Then you’re cooked.
When your pavement is “at the end of its rope”, you have no choice but to call in the services of a company that will recommend tearing out the old asphalt, rectifying its foundations and levelling before laying a brand-new layer of hot mix asphalt…
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