Tulsa Asphalt Repairs, Resurfacing, and Overlays, for Parking Lots, Shopping Centers, Driveways, and Roads By Tulsa Asphalt Contractor

Tulsa Asphalt Maintenance Service, Inc.   http://www.tulsaasphaltcontractor.com

Call: (918) 269-4200

We can Successfully repair potholes, alligator cracked areas, service cuts, and waterholes.

We are one of the few Tulsa Asphalt Contractors with an infrared asphalt patching machine that will enable us to patch most potholes and sink holes successfully, seamlessly, and long term.  It makes the asphalt look like new.

Rubberized Crack Sealing:  Shrinkage is the cause of most cracks in asphalt pavements. Standard asphalt takes a beating from the elements. Sun, wind, rain, and heat oxidize asphalt, causing hardening and shrinkage. The pavement then breaks at the weakest points, usually the joints along the curb lines and cold paving joints. 

Will crack sealing save your pavement? Cracks cause potholes and other pavement deterioration by allowing moisture into the sub-base. Sealing asphalt cracks and concrete joints will stop the deterioration and is a means of saving money. Crack sealing repairs a sound pavement that has started to crack and delays expensive resurfacing. Crack sealing also prepares the pavement for additional work such as overlay, chip seal or seal coating.

What are hot-pour sealants? The most advanced blend of asphalt cements, extender oils, rubbers, antioxidants and fillers are used in our hot-pour sealants. These products are a major advance from the old, unsuccessful hot-AC-oil and sand method used for years to fill cracks. Some of our sealants include additives such as rubber and carbon black, giving them the ability to withstand the conditions that cause pavements to cracking.

Full depth reclamation (FDR)  is a pavement rehabilitation technique in which the full flexible pavement (asphalt) section and a predetermined portion of the underlying materials are uniformly crushed, pulverized or blended, resulting in a stabilized base course. Additives are sometimes injected into the process to provide further stabilization.

There are several different kinds of  Tulsa asphalt resurfacing work but the most common consists of a  basic asphalt overlay and a “slurry seal.”

An asphalt overlay adds approximately two inches of new asphalt on top of the shopping center parking lot or driveway’s existing surface. This strengthens it and extends its lifespan for many years. A lot of preparatory work is necessary before the new asphalt layer can be placed: Potholes are dug out and filled. Areas where the new paving joins the old paving are ground to match smoothly. Manhole covers are located and lane line "dots" are removed. After all that, this Tulsa Asphalt paving contractor delivers truckloads of hot asphalt, which is loaded into a hopper on the paving machine. The paving machine is precisely calibrated to place the asphalt evenly across the road. For the last step, large steel drum rollers ride back and forth over the fresh asphalt to compact it as it hardens and cools.

The other kind of resurfacing process is a "slurry seal". In a slurry seal, the contractor mixes sand with an emulsion of liquid asphalt and/or tire rubber. As both chemists and cooks know, an "emulsion" is a mixture of ingredients that don’t like to stay mixed – like the butter, lemon juice, and eggs yolk in a hollandaise sauce. The slurry seal contractor spreads the asphalt-and-sand emulsion evenly in a thin layer over the road surface where it soon "breaks" or hardens. The slurry seal acts as protective coating, filling the cracks in the asphalt surfaces and shielding the asphalt from damaging water and sunlight. Our slurry seal process is much superior to the "blacktopping" commonly done in some parking lots, and it adds to the lifespan of our projects.

Bituminous Surface Treatment (BST) is used mainly on low-traffic roads, but also as a sealing coat to rejuvenate an asphalt concrete pavement. It generally consists of aggregate spread over a sprayed-on asphalt emulsion or cut-back asphalt cement. The aggregate is then embedded into the asphalt by rolling it, typically with a rubber-tired roller. BSTs of this type are described by a wide variety of regional terms including "chip seal", "tar and chip", "oil and stone", "seal coat" or "surface dressing".

BST is used on hundreds of miles of the Alaska Highway and other similar roadways in Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and northern British Columbia. The ease of application of BST is one reason for its popularity, but another is its flexibility, which is important when roadways are laid down over unstable terrain that thaws and softens in the spring.