Asphalt Contractor Crestwood South Birmingham AL

Serving Crestwood South (35213) with driveways, lots, sealcoating and repairs.

Your Local Asphalt Contractor in Crestwood South Birmingham AL

Two days after a July thunderstorm, there's still a puddle sitting at the bottom of your drive. Come February, that exact spot has split wide open. Familiar story around 35213?

Red clay runs under nearly all of Crestwood South, and clay holds water rather than letting it move through. Pave over clay that nobody graded or compacted properly and you'll watch it sink, alligator and come apart in a hurry. As an asphalt contractor serving Crestwood South Birmingham AL, we do driveways, parking lots, sealcoating, crack repair and striping with our own guys and our own machines. Nothing gets farmed out.

Licensed, bonded and insured in Alabama, all of it current. Every job kicks off with somebody measuring on site and a free written estimate in your hand, and if you want the background first, read up on our asphalt paving in Birmingham before dialing 205 583 1535.

What Our Crew Handles in Crestwood South 35213

Houses tucked behind Crestwood Boulevard get the same crew and the same standards as the retail lots out front. Job list looks like this:

• Brand new driveway paving in Birmingham plus tear out and replacement
• Overlays and resurfacing when the base underneath is still good
• Driveway sealcoating and crack filling on a regular rotation
• Potholes, patchwork and milling
• Business lot paving, repairs and fresh line striping
• ADA spaces, ramps and signage done to code
• Grading and drainage fixes over red clay subgrade
• Concrete aprons, curbing and sidewalk tie ins

Why Crestwood South Homeowners Call a Local Asphalt Contractor

Almost every house in this pocket was built somewhere between the 1920s and the 1950s. Which means skinny drives, side yards you can barely walk through, single car widths, and hundred year old oaks pushing pavement up from below. Send a crew that's never turned onto these streets and they'll roll up with a paver that flat out won't fit.

Then there's thickness. A lot of the drives off Fifth Avenue South and Crestwood Boulevard got maybe an inch and a half of asphalt laid straight onto clay back in the day. Crack that thin skin and water walks right in. Freeze thaw does the rest by spring.

Problems We Keep Running Into on Crestwood South Driveways

• Water standing right at the apron where your drive hits the street
• Roots lifting the slab along shaded fence lines
• Alligator cracking up by the garage where the car sits every night
• Edges crumbling off because there's no curb or shoulder holding them

Get your free written estimate today. Ring 205 583 1535 and somebody comes out to measure your Crestwood South drive or lot, no charge either way.

Repair or Replace: How We Decide in Crestwood South

You'll get a straight answer about which one your driveway actually needs. And when a sealcoat is going to squeeze three more years out of it, that's exactly what we'll tell you.

Asphalt Contractor Service Areas Near Crestwood South

Sitting east of downtown, Crestwood South runs up against Crestwood Boulevard, Fifth Avenue South and the Irondale line. The whole neighborhood plus everything around it:

• Crestwood South and Crestwood North, 35213
• Forest Park and Highland Park
• Avondale, 35222, over by Avondale Park
• Woodlawn, 35212
• East Lake, 35206
• Southside and Five Points South, 35205

From most jobs we do here it's a ten minute run to Crestwood Park and roughly eight to Avondale Brewing.

Local Tips From the Guys Working Crestwood South

1. Book paving between April and October. Warm ground is what lets asphalt compact right. Pour it in December in Birmingham and the bond is usually junk.
2. Sealcoat every two or three years, not annually. Pile on too much sealer and it builds up, then peels off in sheets. Our summers are humid enough to cure it just fine.
3. Fix the clay before anything else. Standing water after a rain means grading and drainage happen first. Pave over that problem and you've thrown away your money.
4. Keep an eye on tree roots. Old hardwoods shade a ton of these driveways. Roots get cut back and we build up base stone so the heaving doesn't come right back.
5. These streets are tight. Trucks get staged so your neighbors can still squeeze past, and both houses beside you hear from us the day before.

Reviews From Neighbors in Crestwood South

Marcus, near Crestwood Boulevard: "They regraded the low spot at my apron before paving. No more puddle. Written price never changed."

Denise, off Fifth Avenue South: "Old drive was cracked all the way through. New one looks great and they cleaned up every scrap."

Ray, church lot near Crestwood Park: "Patched, striped and set the ADA spaces properly. Done over a weekend so Sunday was not affected."

Family owned outfit, full liability and workers comp on file, and your job never gets brokered to some other crew.