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Your Spring Maintenance Checklist for Asphalt Pavement

If you can believe it, spring is here! Even though there’s still a chill in the air, it’s important to start thinking about your springtime maintenance tasks. If you manage or own a business or commercial property, one item we bet you didn’t think about this year is your asphalt pavement! Your asphalt pavement — or asphalt parking lot — goes through a lot during the winter months. Let’s dive into this spring asphalt maintenance checklist.

Step 1: Inspect Your Parking Lot

The first task on your spring asphalt maintenance checklist is a simple one: visual inspection. Check your asphalt parking lot or pavement for cracks and potholes, debris, and any other wear and tear. Even small cracks are worth noticing, especially if it’s been a long time since you scheduled commercial asphalt paving services. Inspecting your parking lot is actually important on a regular basis, not just as part of your spring asphalt maintenance checklist. 

Step 2: Clean Up Debris

If it’s been a long time since you even swept a few leaves away from your parking lot, now’s the time to clean away all that harmful debris. Leaves, rocks, and litter sitting in your parking lot aren’t good for the asphalt surface because cars drive over the debris — or snow freezes it to the pavement, causing the sealcoating to degrade faster in the long run. This is another task that shouldn’t just be left to your spring asphalt maintenance checklist — regular cleaning will extend the life of your asphalt parking lot significantly. You can use a leaf blower to remove debris, sweep it up with a broom, or wash it away with a hose or pressure washer. (If you’re using a pressure washer, work with care and on a low setting to avoid worsening any existing damage).

Step 3: Get it Repaired

If you notice holes, cracks, water damage, or any other problems with your asphalt pavement, maintenance will be a lot harder until you get it repaired. Now is the time to contact commercial asphalt paving professionals to take care of filling in those cracks and bringing your parking lot or pavement back to its original good health.

Step 4: Get it Sealcoated

If you haven’t had sealcoating performed in 3 or more years, your pavement is overdue for a new coat of protectant. Over many years of asphalt paving in Moorestown, NJ, we’ve consistently found that the longest-lasting asphalt pavements are ones that are sealcoated regularly. That’s why sealcoating should be a part of your spring asphalt maintenance checklist. You may not want to put money into something you feel like you don’t need, but it WILL pay off in the long run when you have to get your whole parking lot repaired because you never scheduled sealcoating.

Step 5: Keep Up On Maintenance

Once you’re finished with your spring asphalt maintenance checklist, it’s important to protect all the time and money you’ve invested in your parking lot over the years by keeping up on inspecting, cleaning, and scheduling service. It’s best to remove debris within hours or days of when it begins appearing in your parking lot, and you should always have snow removal done ASAP to prevent ice from damaging your pristine asphalt.

Trust Stanley Paving!

Need sealcoating, repair, or new asphalt paving in or around Moorestown, NJ? Stanley Paving is the team to trust. Contact us today for a FREE estimate, and “we’ll top ‘em all!”