3 Reasons To Hire A Paving Contractor

A paved parking lot for your customers to use makes access to your business easier. If you have a dirt or gravel parking lot, you can end up with mud, ruts, and difficult-to-use parking lots. None of those things will be helpful for you, your business, or your customers. If you are going to have a paved parking lot installed at your business, you should make sure that you hire a professional paving contractor to do the work for you.

Drainage

Part of the reason to have a paving contractor do the work is that part of installing a parking lot is to make sure that there is proper drainage under it. Good drainage helps avoid things like your parking lot being washed away or creating potholes and sinkholes. Creating drainage involves several steps. They include ensuring that the site is graded correctly, that any culverts or pipes are installed properly, and that gravel is placed correctly and in the correct thickness. The gravel is there because even when it is compacted, there is still space between the rocks. That space lets the water drain into pipes or the ground.

Proper Thickness

When you think about paved parking lots, you might not realize that a good parking lot is deeper and thicker than just the visual layer. There are several layers to any parking lot. They include the base of the parking lot, drainage layer, support layers, and then the layers of the paving material itself. Depending on how much use you expect your parking lot to have, it may be made up of several inches of paving material. The paving company will be able to tell you how thick your parking lot should be and then make sure that it is that thick. 

Sealant

Once you have invested in a paved parking lot for your business, you want to make sure that the parking lot lasts as long as possible. One way to do that is to have a top coat or sealant applied to the parking lot once it has dried and cured. The sealant will help to protect your lot from weather and anything else that could damage it, like leaking fluids from cars.

If you have a business, you need a way for customers to get to your business. One way you can assist with that is to have a paved parking lot because it will mean more people can get into the parking lot and get to your business. Hire a professional paving contractor to do the work. 


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