A newly installed and freshly striped asphalt parking lot offers a great deal of aesthetic appeal, but that appeal can be lost without proper maintenance. Even worse, a lack of maintenance can reduce your pavement’s life expectancy by 50% or more. An effective parking lot maintenance plan is essential if you want your pavement to have a long life and retain its visual appeal. To be truly effective, your maintenance plan should be a process that continues throughout the year.
Why Asphalt Parking Lot Maintenance Is a Year-Round Process
Does an Asphalt Parking Lot Really Need Maintenance in the Winter?
During the winter, your primary goal should be to watch out for new problems, including new cracks or potholes that might develop. Typically, certain procedures, including asphalt sealcoating, cannot be performed when the weather is cold. However, it may be possible for your contractor to make a temporary fix to keep moisture from entering through a crack or pothole. Keeping water from penetrating to the base layers can prevent a costly repair.
What Pavement Maintenance Services Are Best Handled From April Through June?
As your pavement shakes off the cold weather, you will want to check on its condition. Late spring is an excellent time for sealcoating Atlanta parking lots. The temperatures are frequently perfect, and you should have less trouble finding a reputable sealcoating contractor early in the season before he is swamped with work. Furthermore, the Atlanta area averages a very high ultraviolet index during the summer months, so it is wise to ensure that your sealcoating is in good shape to help protect your pavement from fading and drying out from UV radiation. If you sealcoat your parking lot, you will also need to have it striped and marked.
What Asphalt Maintenance Procedures Are Best Handled From July Through September?
The summer months are usually perfect for installing overlays or performing other types of asphalt paving services, including new construction. The days are long, the asphalt plants are open, and contractors are usually fully staffed. Although the heat and high humidity levels make sealcoating a little more challenging, your contractor can still perform asphalt sealcoating. In addition, since asphalt expands in hot weather, cracks should be at or near their maximum size in the summer, making it an ideal season for asphalt crack sealing.
What Asphalt Maintenance Procedures Are Best Handled From October Through December?
Autumn is a good time to make sure that your pavement is ready for winter. From the first of October until the middle of November, catch up on any tasks that you may have overlooked or been forced to delay. Your contractor may not be able to sealcoat your pavement after the first of November, but you should still be able to have cracks and potholes repaired, traffic signs installed or replaced, and car stops installed. During the autumn months, you can also address the cleanliness of your parking lot by having oil stains treated and piles of leaves removed.
Does MH Greeson Maintain Parking Lots?
MH Greeson specializes in the maintenance of parking lots in the greater Atlanta area. Our services include asphalt sealcoating, parking lot striping and pavement marking, asphalt crack sealing, traffic sign and bollard installation, asphalt patching, and car stop installation. We are known for our craftsmanship, customer service, reliability, and integrity. To receive a free quote, give us a call at 770-335-2983 or complete the online request form.
