When You Need a Paving Contractor Instead of Us

What we do and do not do

We seal, we crack seal, and we stripe. We do not install new asphalt, do overlays, cut out and replace failed sections, or perform structural repair. That has been the shape of this business for sixty years.

It also means we have no financial reason to tell you your pavement is worse than it is, and no reason to tell you it is better.

The jobs that belong to a paver

New pavement where there is none. Replacing pavement that has failed into the base. Overlaying a surface that is structurally sound but too far gone to maintain. Cutting out and rebuilding sections around a failure. Grading and drainage work that changes how water moves.

If your property needs one of those, a maintenance contractor cannot help you, and any maintenance contractor who says otherwise is selling you a coating over a problem.

What we will do in that situation

Tell you plainly, in writing if it helps you get bids. Then protect whatever pavement around it is still sound, because the sound part is usually most of it and it keeps aging whether or not the failed section gets fixed.

Plenty of properties need both kinds of work across their life. Our job is making the maintainable years last as long as they can.

Why this matters when you are choosing

Ask any contractor what they will not do. A shop that does everything has an answer for every problem, and the answer is always more work. A shop with a defined lane has to tell you the truth about the edges of it.

That is worth something when the estimate arrives. Call (530) 587-4161 for an assessment that includes the parts we do not profit from.

How to hand it off well

Get the assessment in writing so you can hand the same description to paving contractors and compare bids on equal terms. Ask each of them to separate structural repair from surface work, so you know what you are actually buying.

Once the paving is done, that new pavement enters the maintenance cycle. New asphalt should cure before its first seal, commonly six months to a year, and we can schedule that when the time comes.

More in the pavement guides, the FAQ, and the problem pages. For your community specifically, see the service areas.