Numerous studies have shown that properly maintaining your asphalt surfaces, with regular seal coating every 2-3 years, can more than double the life of your pavement.  When weighing the small cost of seal coating vs. pavement replacement, it is clear that that a proper pavement maintenance routine is the best solution to preserve your investment, and maximize your driveway, parking lot, or road-ways life span.

Over time, asphalt loses its black color and takes on a gray, faded, oxidized look.  Seal coating helps give your driveway or parking lot a deep, rich, black look to restore it and make it look better than new.

Save Money And Long Term Costs

By maintaining your asphalt pavement surfaces, you effectively help double their life span. A small investment now can save thousands, even millions (depending on the size of your paved areas). When you implement a pavement maintenance regimen early on, consisting of regular seal coating every 2-4 years, as well as routine crack sealing, you help stop the most common causes of premature pavement failure. This results in having to re-pave less often and translates to dramatic savings in your pavement budget. You also help minimize liability risks and eliminate safety hazards.

Increase The Value And Appeal Of Your Property

Driveway and parking lot seal coating go hand in hand with other routine maintenance of your home or business. Just like landscaping, such as mowing the lawn regularly, pruning trees, trimming hedges and bushes helps make your property as beautiful as possible, seal coating provides a dramatic enhancement to the appeal and attractiveness of your property.

Seal coating is the ultimate enhancement of your overall landscaping. The seal coat we apply restores the deep, dark, black as night color that looks even better than brand new pavement. By providing consistent pavement maintenance while your pavement is still fairly new, you help retain your pavement investment and maximize its life span.

If you were buying a car, would you rather have one that had the oil changed every 3,000 miles, or one that didn't have the oil changed till the engine started to fail? By implementing Seal And Coat's asphalt seal coating service early on, you provide a routine maintenance that could play an important part when you sell your property.

Protection From Sunlight & UV Rays

Sealcoating by Seal And Coat protects your pavement from the damaging effects of sunlight and ultra violet (UV) rays. As pavement ages, the asphalt binder "glue" used to hold the sand and stone partials together begins to break-down. This causes this binder to real ease the sand and stone particles that your asphalt is composed of. Over time, your pavement begins to wear thinner and thinner.

Left untreated for extended periods of time, and a condition known as raveling begins to occur. Raveling is a condition most notable when the pavement takes on an extremely rough and porous texture appearance. The increased porosity traps dirt and moisture and makes the surface harder to clean and take longer to dry.

As the pavement continues to dry out, it causes it to lose flexibility and becomes more brittle. The increased brittle nature of the pavement makes it more prone to cracking and stress damage. By sealcoating, you have the benefit of maintaining a more flexible surface with an increase resistance to cracking and stress damage.

The continuous oxidizing and loss of flexibility causes your asphalt pavement to become more sensitive to hot and cold temperature extremes. When your pavement loses flexibility, it is more prone to cracking and other stress related damages, especially in climates that experience extended cold winters.

Seal coating protects your pavement the same way paint protects bare wood or metal, sunscreen protects your skin, or car was protects the finish on your vehicle.

Protection From Oxidation

The combined factors of water and sunlight damage all contribute to the oxidation of your asphalt pavement surfaces. As your surface ages, it turns from a rich, deep black, fresh look to brown and eventually gray. Extremely aged pavements may even take on a whitish-gray appearance.

Sealcoating helps lock-in that black appearance of your pavement. This means you preserve the original condition of the pavement when it was installed and prevent it from getting oxidized. Sealcoating also helps create a beautiful, vibrant, uniform black color for your pavement that looks better than new.

Protection From Oil, Fuel, Petroleum and Chemical Assailants

Seal Coating protects your pavement from petroleum based drips and spills like oil, gasoline, jet fuel and other chemicals. Asphalt is a petroleum based product. Ultimately, when you introduce a petroleum based product such as asphalt with other petroleum based products such as oil, gasoline and fuel, their similar chemical make up provide the proper environment for these chemicals molecules to bind together and recombine. This binding action between the similar petroleum derived molecules cause the pavement to break down. Left untreated for extended periods of time with numerous or heavily saturated locations, the pavement starts to experience soft spots that weaken the asphalt to the point it can simply be dug out with a regular car key or screwdriver.

By sealcoating, you provide a protective barrier against petroleum spills. In addition, you also provide a protective barrier to protect your pavement from road deicing products and salts. Petroleum based fertilizers can also damage your pavement and lead to an increased level of oxidation.

Protecting The Environment

Seal And Coat is a company with a strong environmental commitment. We truly believe our range of service and systems, philosophy and techniques can play an intrigral part in environmental protection. By extending the service life of your pavement, you effectively circumvent the intervals or pavement replacement to a greater extent. Sealcoating and crack sealing, depending on the size of the project, can be performed in as little as one or two days utilizing as little as one truck.

In contrast, pavement replacement requires numerous trucks and many trips in order to replace it. All these trucks burn fuel which contribute to automobile emissions and greenhouse gasses. Paving requires several trucks and fuel burning construction equipment to tear up and remove the old pavement and take it to a recycling facility. Additional trucks are required to bring in new or additional base aggregate material. Rollers must them be used to compact the material. After the material has settled and has been sufficiently compacted, multiple truck trips are required from the asphalt plant to bring in the fresh hot mix asphalt. Rollers and other equipment must then be used to compact this material.

As the above typical scenario suggests, maintaining your asphalt helps play a critical role in circumventing the intervals at which your pavement has to be replaced. Together, we can help cut our dependence on crude oil and cut global pollution associated with the asphalt industry in half.

Summary

As the above data suggests, maintaining your asphalt plays an important role in saving costs, protecting your investment, eliminating liability risks and protecting your investment. Numerous industry and government studies, including studies by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), all illustrate that maintain your asphalt surfaces is the most important cost saving measure a property owner, manager or company can utilize in order to save long term costs and extend the service life of your pavement surfaces.