Preventative Maintenance Saves You Money
This can’t be stressed enough! When cracks start to appear in your paved surfaces they need to be sealed quickly. Think of your asphalt like your teeth. When you start to get a small cavity you will want to get it filled as soon as possible. Otherwise you’re facing an expensive root canal or much worse.
Asphalt is the same way in that cracks lead to larger and more costly repairs. The good news is that crack sealing is an inexpensive repair that can be performed year round. It works simply by keeping water out of the area between your asphalt and the subsurface under your asphalt. 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, vehicle damage 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. Ground 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.
Thoroughly clean cracks with wire brooms & power blowers prior to application. Dust and loose debris are removed and to provide for superior adhesion of the crack sealing material.
Provide & place hot rubberized material to existing cracks as per contract. All of our sealants meet or exceed state and federal specifications.
Broadcast #30 mesh silica sand on newly filled cracks in traffic areas.
Hot Vs. Cold Pour Crack Repair
Not all crack repair products are the same. Hot pour crack sealants are considered by many to be superior to cold pour sealants. We at Pinx Group believe that to be true based on our experiences as well. Hot pour materials are designed for cracks up to 3/4″ (three quarters of an inch) typically found in asphalt. Larger cracks up to 1″ can still be sealed by this method to avoid more expensive future repairs, however the products typically aren’t designed to stand-up to these types of larger cracks and voids. In those cases we would recommend asphalt repair.
Our Crack Sealing Application Process
Pinx Group crack sealing process is identical to the one used by most local municipal, state, and governments repair agencies such as NJDOT. The crack sealing process that they use on highways, freeways, roadways, and parking lots is the same that we use on your asphalt surfaces. This process has been tested and proven time and time again. Its performance is reliable and outstanding even in the most demanding of conditions. Our premium rubberized crack sealer is heated to a liquid, at 400 degrees, and poured into structural cracks.
Hot-pour sealants should be used on driveways with many cracks as well as high-traffic roadways and parking lots. Hot applied sealants are the best choice for a quality long lasting repairs. Parking lots, driveways, and roadways that are sealed using a hot applied rubberized crack sealant can be reopened to traffic as soon as the material is cool. Depending on outside temperatures, this can be as fast as 20 to 30 minutes after sealing the cracks.
The more time the crack seal material is given to dry the better odds lifting will not occur. We recommend 48 hours of dry time but we understand that this is not always realistic for a parking lot in New Jersey.
Not all cracks can be filled with crack sealer. Some cracks are just too wide or too deep. Not sure if your cracks qualify? Contact Pinx Group and we will come out to give you a free no obligation quote on all your crack sealing needs.
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