About Shawn David
I started Shawn David Paving to honor my brother who was taken from us unexpectedly by an agressive brain cancer. At Shawn David Paving we believe in the simple idea that quality commercial and residential paving should be offered by experienced contractors and remain affordable. Our company is licensed, insured, and bonded, and ready to start your project today. When you work with Shawn David Paving, you are working with passionate professionals who know your area’s specific rules and challenges.
Our focus is on ensuring that our customers, and their customers, are kept safe, secure, and protected.
We believe that you have a right to an honest contractor, a fair estimate, and quality work. Shawn David Paving stands behind our work, and will endeavor to make sure that your experience is the best possible. We believe in fairness, honesty, and open communication. If you have a question, we will gladly answer it, and work to make sure there is never any confusion.
You Deserve The Best
Eco Friendly Construction
We work to keep our impact as light as possible. We focus on green methods and practices, and embrace new, better, practices as they emerge.
We Support Your Progress
We support the vision of every client and work to increase the value of all the properties we work on. We aspire to help neighborhoods safely improve, grow and thrive.
Your Satisfaction Is Job #1
Our first and only priority is completing the job to your satisfaction. From start to finish, we work to exceed your expectation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Often Should My Lot be Sealed?
Your asphalt should be sealed no more than every 3 years, 2 years if there is a lot of wear. A new parking lot should be sealed after it’s first winter.
Many businesses now seal every other year. This has proven to be an excellent approach to avoid expensive repairs and maintain an aesthetically pleasing drive or parking lot.
There are many factors to consider when deciding how often to seal. Some of the key factors include the amount of traffic the pavement receives, weather conditions, and what application methods were used when applying the sealer. All of these things that can affect your lot’s longevity.
Shawn David Paving can evaluate all of these factors and recommend a maintenance plan tailored to your needs.
What Does Pavement Maintenance Do?
Sealcoating, crack repair, and patching are all preventive measures designed to help protect your investment. The harsh effects of gas, oil, salt, and sun, as well as seasonal expansion and contraction cycles, will deteriorate your asphalt over time. Incorporating a comprehensive program of maintenance every 2-3 years can extend the life of your pavement up to 300%!
As well as protecting your pavement, the coating also provides an attractive “like- new” appearance that will increase your property value and keep your facility looking first class.
How Can I Prepare For Sealcoating?
To complete your project we will need access to the entire area to be sealed. Some jobs we can complete one half at a time per customer request, depending on project size.
Any areas with locked gates, or fenced in areas we will need a key to or a maintenance person from your facility there to grant us access. Lawn sprinklers will need to be shut off for the duration of the project.
We appreciate your cooperation in this manner, as it provides you and us with the least amount of inconvenience.
What Is Your Sealcoating Process?
In preparation for sealcoating, first the parking lot will be blockaded off using a combination of orange traffic cones, flagging or yellow caution tape as necessary. All entrances will be clearly barricaded.
All pavement surfaces are cleaned thoroughly with high power blowers. For dirt covered areas, a wire broom will be used. If necessary a power broom or sweeper truck will be used to remove dirt build-up. Power equipment such as a heat-lance will be used to remove grass and vegetation from the pavement. Once all dirt, silt, grass, vegetation, etc. has been removed or loosened, the pavement will be cleared and blown free with high pressure blowers.
Oil, grease, and gasoline stains will be treated if necessary. In extreme conditions the area will be coated using an oil spot bonding agent. This is important because sealer will not adhere properly to any petroleum products. For excessive oil damage, asphalt repair may be the only remedy.
We store materials at our facility and deliver our material to the job site in our state of the art tanker trucks. Asphalt sealer can be applied by brush, squeegee or spray methods, depending on the surface and individual needs of the customer. For more information see our Sealcoating section.
The fresh sealer must remain blockaded and allowed to cure for approximately 24 hours depending on the weather conditions. In certain situations more latex modifier can be used for a faster drying application that can be driven on sooner. Sometimes immediately following a sealcoating project some vehicles leave scuffs or “power steering marks”. This usually happens when a vehicle backs out of a parking stall, stops, and turns the steering wheel while standing still. These marks wear out in a week or two and should not require any additional work.
How Do You Address Cracks?
Crack repair uses a filler, usually a rubber compound called crackfill. We survey your lot or driveway, and provide an estimate for the work needed to repair the damage.
In some cases this will not be all of your cracks. Every driveway/parking lot is different, and needs different work. In some cases, the cracks cannot be filled effectively – usually in so-called ‘aligator’ areas.
An alligator area is an isolated area that contains a great many cracks – also sometimes referred to as a “spider-web” area. There are many causes for these areas, which usually lead back to a weak sub base or thin pavement. It is generally recommended that alligator areas be removed and replaced rather than filled or sealed, although sometimes budgets do not allow for this kind of expense. As all of our proposals state, when we repair cracks with hot rubber, we do so in “non-alligator” areas, which means we will do very limited amount of cracks, if any, in those areas. You simply cannot repair every crack in alligator areas and there is no reason to do so.
Ants Are Making Mounds Around The Crackfill
Ants can burrow their way through our rubber crackfilling to get out of their homes. Unfortunately we can not stop this.