Free crack filling quotes, anywhere in central and south Mississippi.
Seal cracks before water reaches the base, on driveways and parking lots.
A filled crack sheds rain instead of channeling it under the pavement, where it does the real damage.
Thin cracks widen and branch once water and traffic get to work on them. Filling them early holds them where they are.
Sealcoat protects the surface but will not hold a crack closed. Filling first is what makes the sealcoat worth doing.
We lay out what your pavement needs and when, so you budget for small, regular work instead of a surprise rebuild.
| surfaces | Asphalt driveways and parking lots |
|---|---|
| sealcoat schedule | Every 1 to 2 years, cracks filled first |
| first sealcoat on new asphalt | After 6 to 12 months of cure |
| sealcoat dry time | 24 to 48 hours |
The real damage from a crack happens underneath, once water reaches the base. Every rain pushes water down through open cracks into the crushed stone and soil that hold the pavement up. A wet base loses its strength, traffic flexes the asphalt over it, and the crack branches out into a web. Then the web breaks loose into a pothole.
In much of Mississippi the soil under the base is clay that swells when wet and shrinks when dry. Water getting through a crack speeds that movement up, and the pavement moves with it. Sealing cracks while they are thin is the cheapest way to stop that cycle before it starts.
These three get mixed up, and buying the wrong one wastes money.
Crack filling seals individual cracks so water stays out of the base. It works on pavement that is still solid around the cracks.
Sealcoating is a protective coat over the whole surface. It shields sound asphalt from sun, water, and oil, but it will not close a crack or fix a soft spot.
Repair is for areas that have already failed: potholes, sunken patches, spiderweb cracking. The bad asphalt gets cut out, the base gets fixed, and new asphalt goes in. See parking lot repair or driveway repair.
On most visits it is a mix: repair the failed spots, fill the cracks, then sealcoat. We will tell you which parts your pavement needs.
Good candidates for crack filling:
Cracks that need more than filler:
If we see the second kind, we mark those areas for repair and fill the rest. You get both on one written quote so you can decide what to do now.
Driveway cracks tend to show up in the same places: where the asphalt meets the garage slab or the street, along the edges, and over any spot where the ground settled. Filling them keeps water out from under the slab of asphalt you park on every day, and it keeps the edges from crumbling into the yard.
The best time to fill is right before a sealcoat, so the surface is sealed edge to edge in one visit. Wait 6 to 12 months after a new driveway goes in before its first sealcoat, then keep it on a 1 to 2 year cycle. If your driveway has sunken spots or broken sections, that is a driveway repair job, and we can handle both.
A lot that gets a little attention on a regular cycle outlasts one that only gets attention when something breaks. Here is the schedule we set up for commercial clients:
With maintenance like this, asphalt can last 20 to 30 years. Skip it, and small cracks become repair bills.
We can put your lot on a recurring plan so you know what is coming each year and what it will involve before it is due.
Crack filling and sealcoating need dry pavement, so we schedule around the forecast and move the date if rain is coming. Sealcoat needs 24 to 48 hours to dry before traffic, which is the part that takes planning on a busy lot.
We split larger lots into sections so part of your parking stays open while the rest dries, then switch. Striping paint dries in about 30 minutes once the sealcoat is ready for it. For some projects, striping can be done at night or on a weekend. Tell us your hours, your busiest days, and any events, and we will build the sequence around them.
The main factors are how many feet of cracks there are, how wide and dirty they are, and whether sealcoating and restriping are being done on the same visit. Lot size and how many sections we need to work in also play in.
Sealcoating and striping are usually quoted from photos and details you send us. If the photos show sunken areas or spiderweb cracking, we come out and look before pricing, since that is repair work. Every quote is free, written, itemized, and comes with no hidden fees.
Real job photos from PavePro crews. No stock photos.
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Crew member hand-sealing cracks with a pour cart
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Crew blowing out cracks before filling them
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Crack-seal truck working a large striped lot
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Fresh crack-fill lines across a parking lot surface
Milling & Reclamation
Milled parking lot surface ready for a new overlay
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Milled lot stretching toward the I-55 frontage road
Crack filling seals individual cracks so water cannot get under the pavement. Sealcoating is a protective coat over the whole surface. Most pavement needs both, cracks first.
No. Separate cracks fill well. Spiderweb cracking usually means the base under it has failed, and that area needs to be cut out and repaired.
No. You will still see the filled lines. What matters is that water can no longer get into them.
Fill cracks and sealcoat every 1 to 2 years, then restripe, since sealcoat covers the old lines. Fill new cracks in between if they open.
Yes. Keeping water out of the base now means less base repair when you do resurface.
Yes. Driveways crack the same way lots do, and we fill them the same way, usually ahead of a sealcoat.
Tell us about the job and we'll send a written, itemized quote. No pressure, no runaround.