الجمعة، 23 أغسطس 2013

Improve The Quality Of Drives And Parking Lots With Asphalt Sealcoating

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By Helga Stokes


Pavement preservation is essential for the life of driveways and parking lots. If you construct your pavements and you fail to preserve them, they will wear out fast. You will spend more money in repairs and maintenance. You need to seek for asphalt sealcoating contractors to apply a layer of sealant on the surfaces. The sealant prevents damages, which could be caused by environmental and man-made factors.

Sealcoats also prevent substances like oil spillages, transmission fluids, engine oils, and de-icing salts from causing damages on your asphaltic pavements. Asphaltic material goes through an oxidation process once it has been laid down. This oxidation takes place in the rest of the life of asphaltic material once installed.

The oxidation causes the material to lose its viscoelasticity properties with time. You may notice a change in color of your driveways and parking lots. As the blacktop dries out, it changes from the beautiful jet-black color to gray. If you notice this change in color, you need to act fast because within a few months, the blacktop surface may develop small cracks, which can advance to big cracking.

Sealcoat products help prevent cracks from forming on pavements. Most of the defects on blacktop and sub base parts of the roads occur due to formation of cracks. When cracks form, they allow water to penetrate and enter the bed of driveways and parking lots. As more water enters the foundation of roads, the aggregate material becomes weak and your road surfaces cannot support heavy loads.

Sealcoats are not intended to correct defects within pavements. If cracks have already formed, you need to repair them before a sealcoat is applied. When you apply a sealcoat on top of cracked pavement, it only masks the problem. This means that soon the coat will peel off and expose your blacktop surface to the destructive elements like sunlight and water.

One way in which you can enhance the image of your business is by ensuring that parking lots, driveways, walkways and other landscape features are kept in good condition. Customers are enticed by small things like nicely looking parking lot areas and driveways. With properly maintained roads, you can increase confidence among the customers.

Timing is essential when applying sealcoats. In newly constructed pavements, you have to allow the blacktop to cure properly. This takes sometime depending on how fast the oxidation process occurs. It may take up to one year before the blacktop cures properly. After the first coating, you also need to ensure that you apply the sealants after every 3 to 5 years.

If you have a proper sealcoating program for your drives and parking lots, you can extend their lifespan. You also spend less money in repairs because you prevent huge damage from occurring. If you have to repair major damages, it means that you spend more money but you can avoid such costs by sealing pavements with asphalt sealcoating products.




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