Trusted Maine Seal Coating, Paving, and Striping
Our team of paving repair experts will make your driveway look new again with our industry leading asphalt sealcoating!
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Portland, ME Sealcoating
Welcome! Here at Maine Sealcoating, we specialize in all sealcoating needs! If you're planning to sealcoat your driveway or parking lot we've got you covered! However, we find education to be very important, and by the looks of some of the properties we've done in the past - people really aren't sure how to go about maintaining their pavement so it looks its best at all times.
Are you ready to revitalize your worn down and dull driveway? Ready to add value back to your overall property and make your personal parking lot look inviting to all visitors? Sealcoating is an affordable, convenient and efficient process that gives life back to your decaying asphalt. Our team of experts guarantee quality work that will add on years to your driveway, parking lot and even basketball court.
So what do we do here? Well, we are a full-service sealcoating and striping company that can take care of all of your needs from sealcoating your driveway, to striping the parking lot for your business, to striping the lines on the basketball court you just installed for your budding athlete children!
There are plenty of benefits to staying on top of the maintenance of these highly trafficked areas of your property. Not only does it improve the look, drivability and function of the space, but also keeps you, your vehicles and equipment, such as lawn mowers, bikes, and heavy machinery safe. Uneven pavement and cracks can become larger problems over time and can lead to humanity’s worst enemy: potholes. Filling them in a timely, efficient and quality manner will make sure you optimize the life space of your driveway. Sealcoating protects against the elements. It stops rainwater, snow melts, and even humidity in its tracks and ensures even that hairline crack does not become a giant canyon in your asphalt.
Sealcoating your driveway or parking lot while it still has rather minor blemishes will save you on precious time and costly bills down the road (we’ve got puns!) Now imagine you’ve let the stubborn crack in your driveway escalate to a full on crater of a pothole. Continuos plowing and shoveling over the winter has spread the catastrophe that that pothole has started and now your left with a minefield of craters in your driveway. Take pity on your poor vehicles, fill the holes while you still can. Left unchecked these holes may lead to the need for a total driveway replacement. That means a huge bill in front of you. Sealcoating before this worst case scenario can arrive will save you money, add value back to your property and increase the longevity of your driveway.
If you’re a business owner with a great slice of property with it’s own parking lot, why not add to your curb appeal(more puns)? Make it easy for customers to navigate right towards your business. There’s nothing worse consumers dread than finding themselves in a shabby parking lot or being totally unable to identify the parking lot! Let’s be honest, a well laid out parking lot really sets the tone for the atmosphere of the entire business. Give them a great impression before they even get out of their cars. And while you’re at it, help them out with knowing exactly where to park with vibrant new striping and line paint to designate every available parking spot!
Why Should I Sealcoat my driveway?
There are many reasons that you would want to sealcoat your driveway. One of the main reasons we see is because people don't know how to maintain their pavement so it looks its best at all times, or they're not educated as to what can happen if parking lot and asphalt surfaces aren't properly maintained (potholes). It's also important to note that pavements deteriorate from environmental influences such as sunlight, water, oil spills and chemicals which cause the cement in them to break down. Sealcoating helps protect this pavement by filling cracks in between joints with a tar-based coating layer, providing protection against these elements over time.
In addition sealing will help prolong the life expectancy of an existing surface while making it even appear better to help improve the look of your property!
So what does this all mean? The benefits of sealcoating are that you'll have a more aesthetically pleasing property and one with less maintenance costs in the future! Whether or not your asphalt surfaces, parking lot needs to be repaired for cracks or potholes, we can do it for you. We also offer free estimates so give us a call at (207) 387-7060 today!
What is Sealcoating?
Sealcoating is a rather simple process that every homeowner should do at some point. The basics are that it provides a top-layer coating to your existing asphalt paving. As the name suggests, this helps to seal the asphalt surface. It is initially applied as a liquid, but after only a few days of drying (the time it takes to dry will depend on the weather), it will quickly dry into a film that fills the small cracks in the asphalt and provide a tough layer that can withstand most things life throws at it.
The process to do this is straightforward. First, the surface of your asphalt needs to be cleaned to be prepared for the application. Next, any cracks or other blemishes in your driveway get fixed. Then, the sealant is added to the top of the asphalt and will cover whatever area you need! Obviously, we recommend sealing the entire driveway, but we've come across many cases where residents only wanted to seal off a newer, smaller part of their drive!
This process helps to ensure the durability of your driveway, not just from the normal wear and tear of cars driving over them, but also from the elements. Especially in Maine, we can see wide variation in the weather throughout the year. We go from ice-cold winters to blistering summers. That doesn't only take a toll on us as humans, but it can also damage the asphalt as it expands and contracts with temperature changes and precipitation. Adding sealcoating to your to-do list if you haven't had it done will be something that makes your house look nicer, but also serve a functional purpose of not needing to pay for massive asphalt repairs in the future!
With sealcoating, we recommend a reapplication of the sealant about every 5 years for most people. There are certainly cases where you can wait a little longer, and same cases where you'll need to reapply sooner, but for the most part - it's a process you'll want to do at least twice a decade. One thing to keep in mind - if you plow your driveway in the winter, that may reduce the longevity of your sealant and you may need to reapply sooner.
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Your driveway is one of the first things people see about your house. We'll treat your project as if we were doing it for our own house!
Services
Sealcoating
Proper Sealcoating will help protect your driveway from the elements and give your house an overall cleaner appearance!
Asphalt Repair
Life can hit your asphalt hard. We provide everything for asphalt repair including crack filling, general maintenance, driveway patching, and asphalt resurfacing!
