Asphalt Driveway Replacement and Paving in Loves Park, IL
Rockford Driveway Paving replaces, resurfaces, repairs, and builds asphalt driveways in Loves Park, Illinois. We also seal sound surfaces, convert gravel drives, widen existing ones, and pave small commercial lots. Licensed and insured in Illinois.
Loves Park sits immediately north of Rockford and shares the Rockford Park District with it, so it shares the ground under it too. Winnebago County clay runs through here, and clay is the reason we talk about base depth instead of talking about asphalt brands. Clay holds water instead of letting it drain. Frost drives about three feet down in a northern Illinois winter, and every bit of water sitting in that clay freezes, swells, and lifts whatever is above it.
The driveway does not come back down level in March. Then the ice melts, the soil goes soft and saturated, and it carries less weight than it did all winter. That is the two-part punch that shows up as a web of connected cracks. Those cracks are not surface wear. They are the base underneath giving up under load, which is why sealer and a fresh two-inch overlay both fail on that driveway.
So we build from the bottom. The old asphalt gets torn out and hauled away as reclaimed asphalt pavement. The subgrade gets compacted and proof-rolled, and soft ground gets geotextile fabric. Then CA-6 crushed stone goes in as thin lifts, compacted each time, before two courses of hot mix get rolled down while they are still hot. Every depth on your quote is a compacted depth, written down before anyone starts.
Call (815) 555-0155 for a free estimate on driveway paving in Loves Park.