Professional Asphalt Maintenance And Inspection Tasks You Should Arrange For Your Commercial Parking Lot
When you own a commercial building with its own adjoining parking lot, the pavement of the area is your responsibility to keep up for its appearance and safety to your customers and vendors. You can hire professional asphalt paving contractors for regular maintenance and quality inspections to look for problems that need repair to prevent further deterioration. Here are some tasks your asphalt contractor can take care of to maintain your commercial parking lot for its needed regular inspection and maintenance.
Inspect and Repairs
You can only do so much to keep heavy commercial vehicles off your parking lot paving and the damage they can cause. For example, placing your garbage bins near the parking lot entrance or behind your commercial building. But over time, the asphalt is going to show signs of damage that will need to be repaired.
A professional asphalt contractor can periodically inspect your asphalt surface for problems that need correcting, such as sunken spots and large area pattern cracking. These types of problems indicate a foundation problem to your asphalt and should be managed by removing the asphalt and fixing the underlying foundation sinking, shifting, or erosion. Alligator crack formation and the appearance of "bird bath" spots in your pavement should be corrected properly, which a surface repair patch to the area will only delay the inevitable failure of your parking lot.
Crack Filling
Cracks are another regular occurrence on your parking lot's surface, which is due to sun exposure and temperature fluctuations from summer to winter. Moisture that gets down into small cracks of your pavement will erode away at the interior of the crack, but when the moisture freezes it expands and causes widening to the cracks. For this reason, it is essential that your contractor fills and patches any cracks when they form. Eventually, an un-repaired crack is going to widen into a pothole, which can cause foundation damage to your parking lot.
Small cracks that are less than an inch in width can be filled by your asphalt professional with a liquid asphalt emulsion crack filler. This settles into the crack and self-levels, sealing up the crack and restoring the pavement's surface. You can also arrange for a follow-up sealcoating to treat and protect the entire surface of your parking lot.
Line Painting
After parking lot repairs and coatings have been applied by your asphalt contractor, they can finish your repair work by applying new parking lot markings for parking stalls and handicap accessible areas. They will be able to apply the new striping to match your preferred lot lines and to adhere to the ADA regulations with handicap accessible spots and markings.
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