Asphalt Driveway Paving and Gravel Conversion in Winnebago, IL
Rockford Driveway Paving paves, replaces, resurfaces, and repairs asphalt driveways in Winnebago, Illinois, and converts gravel lanes to asphalt. We also handle extensions, aprons, crack filling, and sealcoating. Licensed and insured in Illinois.
The village of Winnebago sits in Winnebago County out among the farm townships, and the driveways change character out here. Lots are bigger, approaches are longer, and plenty of them are still gravel. Two questions come up more often in this part of the county than anywhere else we work.
First, can we pave over the gravel that is already there? Almost never. Drive rock is usually rounded and washed, so it stays loose by design and never locks together under a roller. Years of tires have also pressed a good share of it down into the clay, so the depth you see is not the depth you have. We reclaim what is usable, grade it, and build proper angular base stone on top.
Second, is asphalt even the right answer on a long lane? Sometimes it is not. A gravel drive that gets crowned properly, ditched on both sides, and topped with the right stone performs well for a fraction of the cost of paving. When the length makes asphalt hard to justify, we will tell you that instead of quoting it anyway.
Where we do pave, the entrance gets attention first. A rural approach usually needs a culvert under it so the roadside ditch keeps flowing, and that gets sorted before the surface goes down rather than after.
Call (815) 555-0155 for a free estimate on driveway paving in Winnebago.