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Friday, February 8th, 2013
As we explained last week, first impressions mean everything in business. Because of this, it is important to keep your parking lot in tip top shape. Still, no matter how much preventative maintenance you perform, your asphalt will eventually crack. The key to preserving your parking lot is to repair small asphalt cracks before they spiral out of control, eventually leading to more serious issues, like potholes or even total asphalt failure occur.
Crack Sealing vs. Crack Filling
There are two primary methods for dealing with asphalt cracks, crack sealing and crack filling. This prevents water and other foreign substances, like sand and dirt, from penetrating the asphalt surface and degrading the asphalt from beneath. Crack sealing and crack filling are the most cost effective pavement repair and maintenance techniques available. But which is better?
- Crack Filling: The less expensive of the two methods, crack filling may not last as long as crack sealing.
- Crack Sealing: Crack sealing is the more expensive method, but also the more durable method. While crack filling may only last one or two seasons, crack sealing can last up to 8 years or more.
So what matters more to you, initial expense or longevity?
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Asphalt Contractor
When your parking lot is beginning to show signs of wear and tear, you need an expert. You need PTG Enterprises. We have been in the asphalt paving business for more than a decade and we’ve worked with homeowners, property managers, architects, and business owners, just like you. When you hire PTG, you will receive the best customer service in the industry.
If you have any further questions about Asphalt Repair, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today! You can check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
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Thursday, January 31st, 2013
“Psychologists, writers and seminar leaders caution that you only have seven to 17 seconds of interacting with strangers before they form an opinion of you,” said the president of Measure-X, David Saxby.
This means that most of a person’s first impression is based purely on aesthetic aspects. So what type of first impression is your building front and your parking lot giving your potential clients / customers? If your asphalt parking lot is full of cracks, potholes, and more, you could be sending the wrong message.
Don’t let your asphalt parking lot give your clients the wrong idea about your business. Contact your local Baltimore asphalt contractor today and ask how they can rehabilitate your parking lot.
- Asphalt Patching: Asphalt patching, which consists of filling the affected areas with hot or cold asphalt mix, is commonly used to correct potholes and large cracking.
- Asphalt Replacement: When parking lot damage is more severe, asphalt replacement, which involves the removal and replacement of the deteriorated area, may be your best option.
- Asphalt Resurfacing: Overlaying, also known as resurfacing, which involves the complete re-paving of the asphalt surface, is typically used only in severe cases.
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Asphalt Contractor
PTG Enterprises has managed hundreds of parking lot projects throughout Maryland, DC, and Virginia. We have the experience you need! More than that, when you hire PTG, you can be rest assured that you will receive the best customer service in the industry. We will show up as scheduled, perform the project as contracted, and leave you with a smile on your face!
Why would you call anyone else?
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today!
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Tags: Asphalt patching, Asphalt Replacement, Asphalt Resurfacing, Baltimore Asphalt Contractor, Baltimore Parking Lot, first impressions, Parking Lot Repair
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Over time, your asphalt parking lot will deteriorate. There is nothing you can do to prevent this from happening. Even the best asphalt pavement will eventually crack and fail. The rate of asphalt deterioration, however, depends on you. There are several steps you can take, from preventative asphalt maintenance to timely asphalt repair to sealcoating, to ensure that your asphalt parking lot looks great for as long as possible.
Do the right thing for your asphalt parking lot and have it sealcoated every 2-7 years, or as needed.
The Benefits of Sealcoating
- Aesthetic Appeal: Freshly laid sealcoat gives your parking lot a dark black color, greatly improving its aesthetic appeal. And remember, you only get one chance to make a good first impression. Don’t let a dull parking lot ruin your client’s image of your business.
- Improves Durability: Sealcoat helps slow oxidation and water penetration, thus extending the life of your asphalt parking lot.
- Stain Resistant: Not only can gasoline and oil stain your asphalt parking lot, but they will also soften the pavement. Sealcoat helps prevent this from happening.
- Slows Fading: Ultraviolet rays from the sun break the links between carbon bonds within asphalt, both fading and damaging the asphalt. Sealcoat helps shield your asphalt from the damaging rays of the sun.
- Ease of Maintenance: Sealcoat makes it much easier to wipe up spills and maintain your asphalt parking lot.
- And so much more!
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Sealcoating Contractor
When your parking lot, or pavements, are beginning to show signs of wear and tear, you need an expert. You need PTG Enterprises. Depending on the current condition of the asphalt parking lot, I have the ability to recommend several different sealcoating options.
So please give me the opportunity to impress you. I can be your one stop ‘Pavement Guy,’ for any pavement project regardless of size or scope.
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today!
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Sources:
- Asphalt Pavement Maintenance 101 PavemanPro
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
The installation of asphalt is the most critical phase of paving. Because of this, it is no wonder that many people ask us the same question this time of year: “Is it too cold to pave?” Well, the answer is yes…and no. Cold weather creates a slew of unique challenges for asphalt paving contractors. These include:
- Transportation: It is much more difficult to transport asphalt from the plant to the job site in cold weather. The hotter the asphalt the easier it is to work with. Conversely, the colder the asphalt gets, the trickier paving becomes.
- Laying and Compacting: It is tough to lay and compact asphalt in cold weather before it cools down.
In the winter months, it takes an organized crew and a knowledgeable asphalt contractor to deliver a high quality paving job in cold weather. Luckily, when you hire PTG Enterprises, that is exactly what you get.
We make paving look easy! But trust us when we say that it is not…
The Asphalt Paving Process
- There will be a man designated to either spray or spot apply tack coat material along any concrete gutter pan or sidewalk reveals.
- There will be ground personnel responsible for controlling the asphalt trucks, because it is incredibly important that the next truck is ready to go when the one ahead of it is finished.
- Now for the good stuff. The asphalt is dumped from the truck to the paver, with two men controlling each side. One is responsible to make sure the joint lines up with the previous paving pull, while the other is responsible for determining thickness, grade, pitch and fall.
- Accompanying the paver are usually two ground personnel called “Lute Men,” who take direction from the paving foreman, spreading or raking out high and low spots.
- Finally, there is the roller man. He is responsible for the compaction of the freshly laid asphalt. Usually this person will work the roller and also plate tampers and hand tampers in the tight areas where pavers and rollers cannot go.
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Asphalt Contractor
At PTG Enterprises, we are experts when it comes to commercial asphalt jobs.
We have been in the asphalt paving business for more than a decade and we’ve worked with homeowners, property managers, architects, and business owners, just like you. We work closely with our clients to ensure the details of the project are fully understood, and that timetables are met.
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today!
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Sources:
- Is it too cold to pave? Pavemanpro.com
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Friday, December 7th, 2012
Did you know that there are several different types of pavement? If not, then you have come to the right place. This week PTG Enterprises, an asphalt and concrete paving company serving Maryland, DC, and Virginia, has outlined one of these pavements below.
Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA): Hot Mix Asphalt is used in everything from runways at busy commercial airports – like Baltimore-Washington International (BWI), Oakland International, or McCarren – to racetracks and more! In fact, of the 88 tracks used in the NASCAR Short Track series, 66 are asphalt.
Benefits of Hot Mix Asphalt
- Quick Construction: HMA’s speed of construction makes it an ideal choice for high traffic areas like airports, highways, and racetracks. It is also easily rehabbed.
- Durability: Asphalt is designed to stand up to any load, from passenger cars to heavy trucks to airplanes.
- Noise Pollution: HMA produces a pavement with less noise pollution than the competition.
- Smooth Ride: HMA is known for its smooth ride.
- Cost effective: Asphalt has the lowest life cycle cost and the highest residual value of any pavement around.
No matter the application, asphalt pavements are the easy choice.
Have a Pavement Project you need completed? Call PTG Today!
When you hire PTG, you will receive the best customer service in the industry. We provide prompt proposals, competitive bids, and top notch management to every aspect pavement projects, from beginning to end.
We will show up as scheduled, perform the project as contracted, and leave you with a smile on your face!
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today!
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Asphalt pavement is both durable and resilient. And it has to be. Asphalt pavement takes a beating on a daily basis. Between regular traffic and Mother Nature, your pavement needs to be strong. However, over time, even the toughest asphalt will start to deteriorate.
What Causes Asphalt Pavement Deterioration?
There are actually a few likely causes of pavement deterioration, including:
- Natural Wear and Tear: Over time, the materials that make up asphalt begin to deteriorate. The liquid asphalt binder, the glue that holds the pavement together, begins to lose its natural elasticity and starts to break down. During this process, the asphalt also loses its natural resistance to water, making the pavement even more susceptible to rain, snow, freezing and thawing, and more. Once this happens, cracking and other forms of deterioration are not far behind.
- Failures in Construction: Improperly installed asphalt can be a large reason for the deterioration of your pavement. Failures in construction can include: improperly compacted base, over or under compaction of the asphalt, improper temperature during application, poor drainage, and so much more.
Types of Asphalt Deterioration
- 1. Cracking: Cracking comes in many different forms, from alligatoring and edge cracks to slippage, reflection, and more.
- 2. Disintegration: This type of deterioration includes potholes, raveling, and the like.
- 3. Distortion: The result of improper pavement construction and the deterioration of the underlying base, distortion includes channels or ruts, corrugations and shoving, grade depressions, upheaval, and utility cut depressions.
When asphalt is installed properly and well maintained, it can last for 25 years or more! So trust your asphalt to a contractor with a proven track record of success, a contractor like Patrick Gillen of PTG Enterprises.
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Asphalt Contractor
The asphalt experts at PTG Enterprises have managed hundreds of Maryland, DC, and Virginia pavement projects and have the experience you need.
When you hire PTG, you can be rest assured that you will receive the best customer service in the industry. PTG provides prompt proposals, competitive bids, and top notch management to every aspect of the project from beginning to end. We will show up as scheduled, perform the project as contracted, and leave you with a smile on your face!
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today!
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Asphalt will deteriorate over time. Luckily, there are several steps you can take to ensure that your asphalt parking lot or other asphalt surface looks great for as long as possible, from preventative asphalt maintenance to timely asphalt repair to sealcoating. But of all the precautions you can take to ensure your parking surface lasts for a long time, sealcoating is perhaps the most important.
The Benefits of Sealcoating
- Slow Oxidation: Overexposure to oxygen hardens asphalt binders, causing the asphalt to crack. Sealcoating provides a protective barrier for your parking lot.
- Slow Water Penetration: the cracking caused by oxidation allows water to penetrate deep into the asphalt, further weakening the entire parking surface. Sealcoats fill surface voids, limiting water penetration and prolonging pavement life.
- Shield Ultraviolet Rays: UV rays break the lines between carbon bonds and your asphalt. Sealcoating prevents UV rays from further damaging the asphalt pavement.
- Easy to Clean: Sealcoating makes your asphalt surface easy to clean, reducing the depth to which oil or gas can penetrate.
- Cost Effective: The cost of sealcoating is only pennies a square yard versus repairs and rehabilitation which can be as much as twenty times higher.
- Aesthetic Appeal: Sealcoating gives asphalt a beautiful finish.
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore Sealcoating Contractor
There are many more options available to property managers and owners today than there was when I started in the Industry. This works to the advantage of the property and to the pavement. Now, depending on the current condition of the asphalt, I have the ability to recommend several different options depending on the condition of the lot, previous maintenance schedules and budgets.
Give me the opportunity to impress you. I can be your one stop ‘Pavement Guy,’ for any pavement project regardless of size or scope.
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today! The asphalt experts here have managed hundreds of Maryland, DC, and Virginia pavement projects and have the experience you need.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
When it comes to running a successful business, image is everything. And believe it or not, your parking lot plays a big role in your customer or client’s perception of your business. After all, the parking lot is the first experience that many clients will have with your company. And remember, you only get one chance to make a good first impression.
So don’t let your asphalt parking lot give your clients the wrong idea about your business. Contact PTG Enterprises, your Baltimore asphalt contractor, and ask how we can rehabilitate your parking lot.
- Asphalt Patching: A common asphalt repair technique, patching is used to commonly correct potholes and large cracks. Patching consists of filling the affected areas with hot or cold asphalt mix.
- Asphalt Replacement: When damage is more severe, removal and replacement may be your best option. This procedure involves the removal and replacement of the deteriorated area.
- Asphalt Resurfacing: In more severe cases, overlaying, also known as resurfacing, involves the complete re-paving of your asphalt surface.
- And more!
What asphalt maintenance procedure makes the most sense for you? Well, the only way to truly know is to contact PTG Enterprises. We will meet with you and perform a site visit to inspect your asphalt surface. We will determine the best course of action and provide you with a thorough, detailed estimate and proposal written in an easy to understand format.
Then, if you decide to hire PTG, we will show up as scheduled, perform the project as contracted, and leave you, the client, feeling satisfied!
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today! The asphalt experts here have managed hundreds of Maryland, DC, and Virginia pavement projects and have the experience you need.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Tags: Asphalt Maintenance, asphalt parking lot, Asphalt patching, Asphalt Replacement, Asphalt Resurfacing, Baltimore Asphalt Contractor
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
Maintaining your parking lot is not an option. It is a necessity. And if you are worried about money, consider how much money you will save when your well-maintained parking lot lasts 10-15 years longer than an unmaintained lot.
On average, a parking lot which undergoes no regular maintenance will last 10-15 years. A parking lot that is regularly maintained, however, can last 20-25 years. Now ask yourself which scenario makes more sense for you, your business, and your budget.
Asphalt may seem tough and durable, but add up the effects of traffic and the elements, and you’ll see how quickly commercial asphalt can wear down. The trick is to be proactive.
PTG Enterprises: Your Baltimore, Maryland Asphalt Contractor
PTG Enterprises has paved thousands of miles of asphalt lots, and our crews work quickly and professionally. Our asphalt experts can handle all of your asphalt needs, from small repairs and patches to sealcoating and new asphalt installation.
- Asphalt Repairs: Addressing cracking and potholes early, while they are small, is much more cost effective than letting your pavement slowly degrade.
- Sealcoating: Sealcoating is a preventative measure that helps safeguard a parking lot against the harsh effects of gas, oil, salt, weather conditions and oxidation. When applied properly, a sealcoat cures on your parking lot leaving a fresh black finish (protective layer).
When PTG arrives, we’ll prepare the site and get right to work, executing each phase of the asphalt project with an attention to detail that other paving contractors don’t possess. We adhere to a strict timetable to ensure the job gets done quickly, without negatively impacting you. And when PTG is done, we clean up, as well.
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today! The asphalt experts here have managed hundreds of Maryland, DC, and Virginia pavement projects and have the experience you need.
Give me the opportunity to impress you. I can be your one stop ‘Pavement Guy,’ for any pavement project regardless of size or scope.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Tags: Asphalt repairs, Baltimore Asphalt Contractor, Maryland Asphalt Contractor, Parking lot maintenance, Sealcoating
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
As a business owner or building manager, you are quickly running out of time to finish those lingering pavement projects before winter. Whether it is a pesky pothole, broken sidewalk, or cracking asphalt parking lot, it is important to address these issues before Old Man Winter makes them worse.
PTG Enterprises can help!
When your parking lot, or pavements, are beginning to show signs of wear and tear, you need an expert. PTG Enterprises has been in the asphalt paving, concrete, and masonry business for more than a decade.
- Asphalt Projects: Asphalt may seem tough and durable, but add up the effects of traffic and the elements, and you’ll see how quickly commercial asphalt can wear down.
- Concrete Projects: When concrete becomes cracked and broken, it not only detracts from the overall look of a property, it can become a safety hazard.
- Masonry Projects: We’re also experts at masonry jobs, whether it’s repairing retaining walls, architectural elements, dumpster corrals or storm drains, PTG Enterprises knows how to handle it. Our professional crews rebuild retaining walls that are broken or weakened by hydrostatic pressure, normal wear, and erosion.
- And more!
When you contact PTG, we’ll meet with you and perform a site visit to ensure we’re familiar with every aspect of the project. You’ll receive a thorough, detailed estimate and proposal written in an easy to understand format. The next step is simple: we show up as scheduled, perform the project as contracted, and leave you, the client, feeling satisfied!
If you have any further questions, please contact PTG Enterprises aka My Pavement Guy today by calling 410-636-8777, or click here today! The asphalt experts here have managed hundreds of Maryland, DC, and Virginia pavement projects and have the experience you need.
Give me the opportunity to impress you. I can be your one stop ‘Pavement Guy,’ for any pavement project regardless of size or scope.
Check us out on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Tags: Asphalt Projects, Baltimore Asphalt Contractor, Concrete Projects, Masonry Projects, pavement projects
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