When your parking lot, driveway, or road has excessive cracks or potholes, those can be fixed with crack-sealing. Over time, any asphalt surface ages, yet crack-sealing can give new life to any asphalt surface, no matter how old.
By sealing cracks early on, you are effectively extending the lifespan of the pavement by preventing additional water erosion that seeps into the asphalt. Crack sealing can also reduce the chance for trip hazards and other liability issues happening. Lastly, crack sealing helps property managers and owners buy time between the more costly repairs that are needed.
Understating the Cause of Your Cracks
There are a lot of reason’s your asphalt will crack but the main suspects are sun and water. The sun’s ultra violet rays are always beating down on your pavement, drying it out, and causing it to become more brittle. The water that comes from weather or irrigation runoff seeps into those newly formed cracks, and starts the erosion process that eventually becomes the pothole. Cracks can come from many other sources as well. Earth movement, heavy traffic loads, or poor construction design and repairs. The main type of cracks found in parking lots include fatigue cracks, reflective cracks, and block cracks.
