Asphalt maintenance like crack sealing, sealcoating, striping, and patching are low-cost solutions that will improve the life of an asphalt surface. If an asphalt surface is not maintained properly over time it can lead to a costly replacement. Use this guide to help you properly maintain blacktop pavement.
After a roadway has reached a level of disrepair that can not be fixed, the surface must be ripped up and replaced. Because asphalt surfaces are made of simple input materials, an old asphalt surface can be recycled to be used in new paving projects and other construction materials.
An asphalt surface is typically called blacktop because of the color, but not all asphalt is black in color. This color of roads is determined by the input materials that consist of bitumen, an asphalt cement, and aggregate rock. Bitumen is always black, but there are paved surfaces that use dies and even different colored rock to pave with.