Driveway sealcoating in Gray’s Crossing.

What the work involves

Sealcoating a driveway means cleaning the surface, treating what needs treating, sealing the cracks, and rolling OverKote sealer over the top. It is the coating that takes the sun and the plow wear instead of your asphalt taking it.

Why it matters at this elevation

The reason sealing pays here is the freeze line. Pavement at this elevation crosses freezing and thawing constantly through the shoulder seasons, and every crossing works on whatever water the pavement is holding. Keeping water on the surface instead of inside the asphalt is most of the battle.

Pavement in this range spends a long stretch under snow and then a long stretch cycling between melt and overnight refreeze. The refreeze does the damage. Water that ran into a crack at two in the afternoon is ice by nine at night, and ice takes up more room than the water did.

How the job runs

Prep is most of the labor. Sweeping and blowing the surface, cutting back whatever is growing at the edges, treating spots where oil has softened the asphalt, and closing the cracks. The sealer itself is the fast part, and it performs exactly as well as the surface it went onto.

Gray’s Crossing pavement specifically

Association roadways, amenity and clubhouse lots, cart paths, and the driveways behind them. Golf community pavement carries light vehicles over a lot of surface area, so sealing and crack work go further here than they do on a truck route.

Communities like this one are exactly where maintenance pays best, because the pavement started sound. Gray’s Crossing sits on the north side of Truckee off Highway 89, a planned community built around a golf course with its own road network and amenity areas.

A coating on this pavement is protection against sun and water, not a repair. Where the surface has gone past protection, we say so rather than paint over it.

Gray’s Crossing sits at roughly 6,000 feet, and the pavement around it behaves accordingly. More on the area on our Gray’s Crossing service area page. We work the same corridor through Old Greenwood, Truckee, Prosser, Tahoe Donner, and the pavement guides go deeper on the physics if you want it.

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