Cracks filled first, edges cut, an even coat — and an honest answer about whether your driveway actually needs it this year. Free on-site quotes across Guelph and Wellington County.
Get a Free QuoteCall (226) 887-8026Asphalt and interlock, from a straight seal coat to a full joint-sand replacement.
Cleaned, cracks filled, edges cut, then an even coat of sealer — done in the right temperature window.
Hot-pour rubberised filler in the cracks before any sealer goes down. Skipping this is why sealing sometimes 'doesn't last'.
Penetrating sealer for paver driveways, walkways and patios. Deepens colour, locks joints, slows weed growth.
Old joint sand removed, new polymeric sand swept in, set and activated. Ends the ants, the weeds and the shifting.
Southern Ontario pavement doesn't wear out so much as it gets taken apart. The mechanism is freeze-thaw: water finds its way into the surface, freezes, expands, and levers the aggregate loose. Then it thaws and does it again. Repeat that through a Guelph winter and a hairline crack becomes a pothole.
Sealer is a wear coat. It slows the oxidation that turns asphalt grey and brittle, and it keeps water out of the top layer. What it is not is a structural repair — it won't fix a failed base, and it won't close a crack that hasn't been filled. Anyone selling it as a cure-all is selling you something.
Which is also why the timing matters more than most people expect. Sealer cures by evaporation, so it needs surface temperature and a dry window on both sides of the job. Get that wrong and you've paid for a coat that won't bond.
Sealer needs surface temperature above roughly 10°C and a dry window of about 24 hours after it goes down. That puts the season between late spring and early autumn. A warm April afternoon can still be too cold if the ground hasn't warmed.
Usually not yet. Fresh asphalt is commonly given six to twelve months to cure before its first seal. Sealing too early can trap the oils still leaving the surface. If it was paved this season, next year is normally the right answer.
Judge the driveway, not the calendar. Grey asphalt where you can pick out individual stones has oxidised and is due. Still-black, tight asphalt isn't. Over-sealing is a real failure mode — too many coats build up and peel off in sheets.
Yes, and it's the part that decides whether the job lasts. Sealer poured over an open crack bridges it and splits along the same line by spring. Hot-pour filler goes in first.
It depends on square footage, condition, how much crack filling is needed and whether it's asphalt or interlock — so we quote on site rather than guessing at a number here. Ask any contractor what's included and what's extra before you agree.
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