Oklahoma City Metro · Water Intrusion Control
Commercial Crack Sealing Before It Becomes A Pothole.
Every pothole you have ever paid to repair started as a crack somebody walked past.
Oklahoma City Metro · Water Intrusion Control
Every pothole you have ever paid to repair started as a crack somebody walked past.
What it actually is
A crack is an opening to the sub-base. Water goes in, sits under the asphalt, and softens the material that is holding your surface up. In Oklahoma that water then freezes, expands, and lifts the edges of the crack apart. Do that a few dozen times over a winter and the crack becomes an alligatored patch, then a pothole, then a repair invoice with an equipment mobilization on it.
Crack sealing is the highest-return maintenance dollar on a commercial lot because it stops the mechanism instead of treating the symptom. It costs a fraction of patching and a small fraction of an overlay, and it is the one service that pays for itself fastest on a property you intend to hold.
Scope
Working cracks get routed to a consistent reservoir so the sealant has something to bond to and room to move. Not every crack needs it and we will not bill you for routing that does not help.
Compressed air to blow the channel clean of dirt, vegetation, and old material. Sealant bonded to debris fails by the next season.
Applied at temperature so it flows into the full depth of the crack, then flexes with the slab as it moves through the seasons instead of cracking straight back open.
Banded flush to the surface so it sheds water and does not catch a snow plow or a shopping cart.
You get to see what was addressed and what we flagged as needing repair instead.
Process
Not everything gets sealed. Hairline cracks under about an eighth of an inch will not take material. Alligatored and heavily spalled areas are a repair, not a seal — sealing them is throwing money at a section that needs cutting out.
Crack sealing moves fast and closes small areas at a time, so most properties never fully shut down. We cone off the working band and move.
Hot-pour sets quickly. Sections generally reopen the same day, which makes this one of the easiest services to fit around a busy property.
If we sealed around a section that is failing structurally, you will hear about it with a photo, not a sales pitch.
Who it is for
Commercial properties only. We do not take residential driveway work.
Timing
Crack sealing is the counter-seasonal service. Cracks are at their widest in cold weather, which is exactly when the sealant can reach the full depth of the channel — so late fall through early spring is a working window, not a dead one.