Water works into a hairline crack, freezes, and pries it wider. Northwest Ohio does that dozens of times a winter, and road salt finishes what the ice starts.
Done in the right order. Cracks get filled and holes get patched before anything gets coated, because sealer over a crack is a four month cover-up.
Two coats, edges cut in by hand, priced by the square foot after measuring.
DetailsChurches, apartments, offices, storage. Worked in sections so your lot never closes.
DetailsThe highest value dollar you can spend on asphalt before an Ohio winter.
DetailsStalls, accessible spaces, fire lanes, arrows, numbering, and full layout work.
DetailsCut out and rebuilt flush, not shovelled full of cold patch to come apart by spring.
DetailsSend a photo. You get told what it actually needs, including when the honest answer is nothing this year.
Send a photoHalf the bad reputation this trade has comes from companies letting people believe the second column is the first.
Blown clean, edges cut back where grass crept over, oil spots primed. Sealer bonds to asphalt, not to dirt.
Hot rubber pushed down into the cracks. Holes cut out and rebuilt. Always before any coating.
Edges and the apron cut in by hand for a clean line against your concrete. Then two coats across the field.
Stay off it 24 hours, 48 if it is cool. Do not turn your wheels while parked for a few days.
Sealcoating is sold by the square foot, which is why two driveways that look the same from the street can quote very differently. A wide two-car apron in a Perrysburg subdivision and a ten-foot drive running a hundred feet back to a detached garage are not the same job.
Three things move the number beyond square footage. Crack work, priced by the linear foot, because not every driveway has any. Condition, because pavement never sealed drinks more material. And access, because a shared drive or a gate takes longer than an open apron.
You get a firm number before anything starts. It does not move once work begins.
Quotes are free, and there is no charge to be told your driveway does not need anything yet.
Lucas and Wood counties are the core, with regular work into Fulton County and just over the line into Monroe County, Michigan.
Priced by the square foot, so the number comes from measuring rather than guessing. A wide two-car apron and a ten-foot drive running a hundred feet back to a detached garage can be very different square footages even though they look similar from the street. Be wary of a flat price quoted over the phone by someone who never measured. Cracks are quoted separately, because not every driveway has them.
Sealer needs pavement above about 50 degrees and rising, no rain for roughly 24 hours either side, and daylight to cure in. Around Toledo that is late April through roughly mid-October. Anyone offering to seal your driveway in November is selling you a coat that will peel.
Every two to three years. Sealing every single year is a common upsell and it genuinely damages the driveway, because the coating builds up thicker than it is designed to be and thick sealer cracks and flakes off in sheets. If it still looks black and water still beads on it, it does not need another coat yet.
No, and it is the most common thing we get asked to do. New asphalt has to cure and release its oils first, which takes a full season. Sealing early traps those oils and can leave you with a soft, tacky surface. If it was paved this year, wait until next year. We will tell you that instead of taking the job.
No. Sealer is about as thick as a few sheets of paper. It protects sound asphalt from water, salt and sun and makes the surface look close to new, but it does not bridge a crack and it does not fill a hole. Cracks get hot rubber first, holes get cut out and patched first, and sealer goes over the top of finished repairs.
Freeze and thaw. Northwest Ohio runs through dozens of freeze-thaw cycles a winter. Water gets into a hairline crack, freezes, expands about nine percent, and pries it wider. Then more water gets in and it happens again. Add the road salt tracked up every driveway in Lucas and Wood County all winter and you have the exact mechanism that turns a small crack into a failed driveway in a handful of years.
Twenty four hours, forty eight if it is cool or damp. Walking on it is usually fine before driving on it. The one thing to avoid for a few days is turning your wheels while sitting still, because power steering scuffs fresh sealer.
Yes. Churches, apartment complexes, small offices, storage facilities and retail strips. Lots get worked in sections or after hours so you never fully close, and striping is quoted with the seal, since a freshly sealed lot has no lines on it until it does.
We are setting up general liability cover as part of forming the business, and no commercial work gets booked before it is in place. Ask us where that stands when you call and you will get a straight answer rather than a brochure line.
Free quotes. A photo of the driveway or lot gets you a real answer fastest, including the answer that it does not need anything this year.