It makes sense now, more than ever, to protect your pavement from the elements that will destroy it over time.
Signs You Need Sealcoating
Asphalt is fading from black to gray
Small cracks are showing
Surface sand is wearing off revealing the rock below
Sandy deposits are collecting in the corners of your lot
Stops Weather Damage
Sealcoating prevents the damaging effects of oxidation and water penetration.
Prevents Oxidization
The sun's ultraviolet rays harden and dry out the asphalt pavement surface. This accelerates raveling and erosion and can reduce asphalt thickness in just a few years. Sealcoating helps prevent this.
Beautifies Pavement
Sealcoating restores original black color to asphalt and greatly enhances the overall appearance of property. The smooth even surface of sealed pavement makes sweeping, snow removal, and maintenance easier and less costly.
Resists Gas, Oil, and Salt
Sealcoating resists the highly damaging effects of gas and oil seepage and all other road chemicals including alkalies and winter salt.
Sealcoat is used to extend the service life and reduce maintenance costs of asphalt pavements. It protects pavement from the destructive effects of water, sunlight, oxidation, fuels, and oils. In addition, seal coat provides a distinctive, new looking surface that is skid resistant, long lasting and easy to clean.
This is not a permanent maintenance process. Sealcoats are capable of preventing and correcting a variety of maintenance problems, such as small cracks, ravelling, and flushing.
Seal coats can seal existing pavements against the penetration of air and/or water, thus reducing pavement oxidation, and can enrich a dry and/or ravelled surface. Seal coat can also provide or improve skid resistant qualities of a pavement surface as well as arrest fatigue block deterioration. We know there are a lot of choices out there, but no other company offers the quality, value and great prices that we do and nobody comes close to our level of personal service we provide every customer, large or small
Want to see us do some striping? Click on the video above to see us at work!
Parking Lot Striping
It’s amazing what a little fresh paint can do for your parking lot. A well-marked parking lot promotes safety and convenience by informing your customers where to park, walk or stop. A professionally marked parking lot will accomplish the following:
Handicapped Spaces
Regardless of your company’s size you must now have the proper number of handicapped-accessible parking stalls? Sauve’s Outdoor Services Inc. can help you get compliant with these standards.
Markings
Symbols, Letters, Numbers, etc Promote safety and efficient traffic flow with stencils, now you can provide a clear message like NO PARKING, ONE WAY or right or left turn arrows even numbering your parking stalls
Curb Painting
Curb painting can really brighten up your parking lot and add to the safety of pedestrians as well as enforces designated parking and non-parking areas.
New Layout
Using your existing lay out or blue prints provided to us, we will layout and paint all lines to specification including markings like Handicap, NO PARKING, etc.
Layout Optimization
We take your desired area and requirements to optimize the best layout possible. This will include all lines, markings and curb painting Re-Strip / Refresh Paint all existing lines and markings per current lay out of area
To avoid total failure of pavement surfaces it is recommended to crack seal your asphalt. The reason that it is so vital is because it prevents the number one destroyer of asphalt: Water. Water can seep into splits, cracks, and paving joints and cause them to freeze in the winter which pushes apart the crack. Not only does this causes the original crack to worsen, but also causes stress cracking (spider cracking) in the asphalt surrounding the original crack leading to a chain reaction and accelerating pavement failure.
In Minnesota winters, de-icing chemicals (salt) can quickly cause asphalt to crumble. Even during the summer, water can still deteriorate your asphalt. Not only is constant moisture in the cracks bad for the asphalt, but also getting washed into the cracks are oil, antifreeze, gasoline, etc. All of these dissolve the essential bonding agents that hold the asphalt together.
The final reason that water getting into the cracks ends up being a big issue is that when enough water gets into the base-stone, it causes it to soften and the asphalt to sink.
There are several reasons why routering a crack is effective:
Crack Fill (good for small cracks, driveways, and non-moving cracks)
- The "Crack Fill" method can be used on any asphalt surface and is often sufficient for small cracks.
- In this method, the cracks are cleaned and filled with sealer which adheres to the inner walls of the crack as well as the surface to lock out water.
Crack Sealing (recommended way to treat any moving or high traffic area cracks)
- The "Rout and seal" method is the premier crack sealing method.
- Crack routing is perfect for medium to large cracks and also as a preventative measure against small cracks starting along moving joints such as paving seams to stop further separation.
Layout Optimization
We take your desired area and requirements to optimize the best layout possible. This will include all lines, markings and curb painting Re-Strip / Refresh Paint all existing lines and markings per current lay out of area
Because our Minnesota temperatures fluctuate so much, the saw and seal method is ideal for increasing the longevity of asphalt pavement. Installing control joints at regular intervals in new pavement allows expansion and contraction. Studies by State Departments of Transportation in northern states have shown the saw and seal method to be effective in significantly reducing long-term pavement maintenance costs.
Parking Lot Sweeping
Facts
There are various benefits of sweeping such as, the collection and removal of paper, leaves, and other visible debris. An equally important, but perhaps less evident benefit is the removal of metal particles and other hazardous waste products left by passing vehicles. Sweeping is also an effective method of removing both large and microscopic pollutants.
70 to 80% of the dirt in your building walks in the front door!
In today’s highly competitive market, business property managers can’t afford the tarnished image caused by cutting back on exterior grounds maintenance, and regular sweeping is arguably the most important component contributing to overall looks. Keeping all outside areas clean is becoming increasingly recognized as an important element of successful business.
Attract More Customers
Keep your parking lot clean, a number of people choose not to patronize a particular business because they don’t like the looks before they even park and come inside.
First Impressions
Outside parking areas are where customers will get their non- favorable or favorable first impression. Is your parking lot swept regularly?
Extend the life of pavement
Sand, dirt and other trash are abrasive, and will shorten the useful life of pavement, seal coating, striping, etc.
Save money
Long term
Replacement costs for pavement far exceed the routine expense of sweeping.
Parking Lots in the Saint Paul Area We Serve
Office buildings,
retail stores,
churches, government buildings, transportation facilities,
apartment buildings,
schools