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Randolph's Asphalt Maintenance is probably the only contractor in the country that went from a 1-year-old business to a 14-year-old business in one year. Talk about growing pains!

The Pittsburgh-based contractor, co-owned by Renee Randolph and Michele Phillips, provides sealcoating and general pavement maintenance services to customers throughout the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

"Basically we'll do anything that's too small for a paver," Phillips says.

She says business is split evenly between patching and repair (including cracksealing) and striping and sealcoating, with 75% of sales generated from commercial work, a huge shift from their start when 85% of sales were generated from residential driveways.

"We do very little driveway work now," Phillips says. "We've gotten picky, and we're even pickier with fuel costs and other costs increasing."

She says the company has enough commercial work and housing developments now, and they use driveways to fill in between commercial jobs.