Parking Lot Paving, Resurfacing & Striping

A parking lot is the first thing a customer touches and the last thing most property owners budget for. It is also, unlike most of a building, something that fails visibly and gradually — which means it is usually fixable long before it becomes a reconstruction.

Pave-Way has built and maintained commercial lots across the CSRA since 1978, for retail, office, church, medical, industrial and multi-family property, on both sides of the river.

What we do

New parking lot construction. Clearing, grading, drainage, base, paving, curb and striping — the whole package, with our own crews.

Resurfacing and overlay. New asphalt over a sound existing base, where the failure is confined to the surface.

Reconstruction. Full removal and rebuild where the base has gone.

Sealcoating. Protecting the surface from oxidation and water penetration.

Patching and pothole work. Cut out, rebuild and replace, rather than throwing material into a hole and rolling over it.

Striping and re-striping. Layout, stalls, directional markings, fire lanes, loading zones.

ADA layout. Accessible stalls, access aisles, routes, slopes, signage and markings to current requirements.

Curb and gutter, sidewalks and islands. Poured by the same crews, tied into the storm system we install.

The base is the whole job

Asphalt is a wearing surface. It is not structural on its own — what carries the load is the base underneath, and what destroys the base is water.

Water enters through a crack, an unsealed edge, or saturated ground alongside the lot. It washes fine material out of the base, leaving a void. The asphalt over that void has nothing supporting it, so it flexes under traffic, then cracks in a pattern that looks like alligator hide, then breaks up into a pothole. Fill the pothole and the void is still there, so it returns in the same spot.

That is why we look at where the water goes before quoting anything. A lot that holds standing water after rain has a drainage problem, and paving over a drainage problem is buying the same lot twice.

Knowing which job you actually need

We would rather sell you the smaller job that works than the bigger job that sounds thorough.

• Sealcoating and striping — surface is sound, drains properly, just tired and worn. Maintenance.
• Patching — isolated failures in an otherwise sound lot. Cut out, rebuild the base locally, replace.
• Resurfacing — surface widely worn or cracked, base still sound and draining. New asphalt over the top.
• Reconstruction — widespread alligator cracking, recurring potholes, standing water, failures returning in the same places. The base is gone and an overlay will not save it.

The failure pattern tells you which one you are in, and we will walk the lot with you and show you why.

Permitting and access

Commercial lot work in Richmond County generally goes through site plan review, with land disturbance permitting once you are disturbing an acre or more, and stormwater review triggered by added impervious area. Aiken County and the City of Aiken run comparable processes. Work touching a state route may need GDOT or SCDOT review of the access.

Resurfacing that does not change the footprint or the drainage is a much lighter process than new construction. We deal with both jurisdictions routinely and will tell you which category you are in early, rather than after you have committed.

Keeping you open while we work

Most of our commercial customers cannot close. We phase lots in sections, work nights and weekends where the property needs it, and plan the sequence with you before mobilising so you know which rows are down and when.

Bonded, licensed and insured in both Georgia and South Carolina. We own our equipment and run our own crews — no subcontracted paving.

Free estimates from either office.