Parking Lot Paving in St. Joseph, MO

Parking lot paving in St. Joseph serves a mix of health care, food processing, manufacturing, retail and churches. Major employers include Mosaic Life Care, Triumph Foods and Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, and their lots carry shift traffic and trucks every day. Smaller offices, apartment buildings and church lots need the same basics: a firm base, drainage that works, and lines people can see. HomeAdvisor lists asphalt lots at about $2 to $4.50 per square foot.

Repair or rebuild

• Surface wear and scattered cracks: crack seal, sealcoat and restripe
• Worn but solid surface: mill and overlay
• Web cracking in drive lanes and at dumpsters: full-depth patch or reconstruction
• Water standing in stalls: regrade during repair

We map the lot, price each area separately and help you phase the work if the budget needs it.

Hills and storm water

Many St. Joseph lots are cut into slopes. Storm water arrives quickly from above and leaves through inlets or over curbs. When it cannot get out, it ponds and freezes; when it runs under the pavement, it washes out the base. We set grades and check inlets so water goes where it should.

Built for trucks

Industry cost guides put commercial asphalt at 4 inches or thicker, with thicker base where trucks travel. Delivery routes, docks and dumpster pads need heavier sections than car stalls, and we design them that way.

Staying open

Work is split into sections so at least one entrance stays open. We can work nights or weekends where traffic requires it and set up signs and cones so customers can get through.

Finishing

New and overlaid lots get striping laid out to the 2010 ADA Standards, which apply whenever a lot is restriped. We can also set up a maintenance schedule for sealing and striping.

Maintenance plans

After a lot is rebuilt or overlaid, a simple schedule keeps it going: crack sealing each fall, sealcoat every few years, restriping after each sealcoat, and spot repairs as soon as potholes show up. We write that schedule with costs so it can go into an annual budget.

Gravel and tar-and-chip lots

Some smaller lots and church lots around St. Joseph are still gravel or tar and chip. HomeAdvisor lists gravel lots at about $1.25 to $1.80 per square foot and tar and chip at $1 to $5. Upgrading to asphalt costs more but cuts dust, potholes and snow-removal headaches; we can price it both ways.