Preventative Maintenance Lowering Costs

A well planned and funded preventative maintenance program will minimize your lifetime parking lot costs

. Allowing minor blemishes in your pavement to grow into major problems will both increase your costs and lower customer satisfaction. No customer likes to hit potholes or step into a puddle of water.

Sun, rain, and wind age your parking lot. They harden the pavement, making it more brittle and likely to crack. Friction from tires rolling across the surface wears away the asphalt cement binder and line striping from the top of your pavement. Sunlight oxidizes the asphalt, both hardening it and drawing the oil out of the surface material, which reduces the effectiveness of the asphalt binder and allows aggregate to break away. Improperly drained water is the most

harmful weather-related factor.

Once water penetrates a paved asphalt surface it begins to wreak havoc on the pavement base. Water usually penetrates a pavement surface through cracks. If a trouble spot turns into a pothole, the volume of water entering and damaging the base layer grows substantially. The longer cracks and holes are left uncorrected, the greater the damage to the base and the greater likelihood of future cracks and potholes. Naturally, the more cracks and potholes, the greater the repair cost. The earlier the signs of wear, especially cracking, show up in your parking lots life, the more likely your lot suffers from a serious problem that will require repair and replacement at some point in the future.

Signs of pavement wear include:

Fading color

Oil spots

A rough surface texture

Loose or missing aggregates in mix

Cracks that are several feet apart and give the appearance of large rectangular blocks

Transverse cracks, mostly running at right angles from the main traffic flow

Longitudinal cracks, running parallel to the main traffic flow

Bird Baths

High spots and /or rutting

Dont let your parking lot deteriorate, let us help you. Give us a call at (518) 266-9526 for all your paving maintenance needs. For more information on Smiths Paving, visit

www.smithspaving.com.

Smiths Paving is located in Troy, New York.

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