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Updated: July 8th, 2008 05:26 PM GMT-05:00

Doing what they do best

Contractor makes switch to asphalt sealer.

Asphalt Sealer Job
One million-sq.-ft. job was a big step up for the contractor and presented a variety of challenges even before the issue of material came up.
Maul Pavement
Originally a driveway sealcoating contractor, Maul Asphalt & Sealcoating decided that if they were going to make "serious money" in the pavement maintenance industry they would have to expand into the commercial market. Today 95% of Maul Asphalt's work is for commercial customers.
walk-behind power blower
Maul Asphalt & Sealcoating usually prepares pavement for sealcoating using walk-behind power blowers, but for the 1-million-sq.-ft. AMC Cantera job, the biggest job they’d ever tackled, the company spent $500 to have the parking lot swept by a contract sweeper.
Crack Repair
On the first day an 8-person crew began repairing 55,000 linear feet of cracks. Two workers cut in much of the parking lot to speed spraying, then three 2-person teams began spraying the first of two coats of sealer. Eventually Maul Asphalt painted more than 100,000 linear feet of striping and brought in a subcontractor to install thermoplastic arrows and stop bars.

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He says his crews normally clean the lots with walk-behind power blowers but he spent only $500 on the sweeping "and I would have spent more than that in labor doing it with blowers.

"It was a good idea, not for every lot but for lots of this size," Maul says. "The sweeper will get it cleaner and it's much more cost effective."

The 8-person crew began work on the parking area farthest from the theater, beginning what would eventually amount to 55,000 linear feet of crack repair.

"We started crackfilling in front of the property in the morning and moved toward the main theater as the day progressed," Maul says. "If possible we like to do all the crackfilling first to get it out of the way if possible but it's not always possible."

Then two workers cut in as much of the pavement as possible before three spray teams (two people per team) took over.

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