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The Five Benefits of Seal Coating Your Driveway

Take a good look at your asphalt driveway.  Are there any cracks?  Are there any stains or spills?  Is the color fading?  If you can answer yes to any of these questions, it is probably time for you to add another layer of sealcoating.  At Florida Seal Coating, we offer seal coating in Orlando that helps maintain and restore many of our client's asphalt surfaces and prolong their lifespans.  We recommend that our commercial and residential customers regularly...

Making Your Parking ADA Compliant

Since the passage of the American with Disability Acts, your parking lot and entrance must be accessible. Many businesses fail to meet this obligation. Before you start your next commercial paving in Orlando project is a great time to make sure that you comply. You can face hefty fines for being out of compliance, and you may be losing part of your customer base.   Required Spaces You are required to provide accessible parking in each of your parking areas. Consider...

Why Do Cracks Form in Asphalt?

Why Do Cracks Form in Asphalt? There are many reasons that cracks form in asphalt. Understanding the reason why they form can help you prevent them from reappearing quickly. While you may need to have new pavement laid this time, asphalt repairs in Orlando may be corrected with Hot Crack Sealant if taken care of when they are small. Learning the reason that your asphalt is cracking gives you important clues about the best way to fix it. Fatigue Cracking ...

3 Types of Sealcoating

All sealcoating consists of four essential components. Most of it is a binder that protects the asphalt. The binder also gives sealcoating its beautiful color and helps it bond to the pavement underneath. Another critical component is the filler and clay. This part of the mixture helps improve the strength of the sealcoating. The third part of every sealcoating combination is water as it is the medium that keeps all the other components stable and allows workers to put the sealcoating down sm...

Asphalt and the Rain

If you are a commercial building owner, then you may wonder what happens to your parking lot when it rains. As you have probably noticed, periods of intense rain followed by periods of dry, leaves your parking lot in rough condition. Here is what happens to asphalt when it rains. Bonds Weaken Between Asphalt Binder and Aggregate Your pavement is made up of multiple layers. When it rains, water manages to seep in between layers causing stress. Over time, your pavement sta...

5 Questions to Ask About a Sealcoating Company in Florida

If you are thinking about having your driveway seal coated, then it can be difficult to choose the right person to complete the job. Here are some questions and the answers you want to hear after asking them. Do You Have any Reviews? Companies doing sealcoating in Florida should encourage you to find out more about them. They may point you to Google reviews or Facebook reviews. They may also offer to let you read reviews written about their customers and saved in a file....

Why You Need to Consider Sealcoating in the Spring

There are many reasons that you need to consider sealcoating in Orlando. It fills in small cracks in your driveway or parking lot so that you do not have to deal with larger issues. It also makes the asphalt look new adding curb appeal to your home or business. Sealcoating makes lines appear bolder helping drivers navigate the space in a safer manner. It also helps to make the area easier to clean. Finally, it is harder for the sun’s rays to penetrate through sealcoating. Spring is the ...

Proper Employee Parking Lot Maintenance in Orlando

While it will never be possible to prevent all slip and fall injuries in your employee parking lot, being proactive can help prevent most of these injuries. When an employee is injured in the parking area, you may be held liable under workman compensation laws. Learn how to make your parking lot a safer place for your employees. What Are Common Hazards Found in Parking Lots? There are many types of common hazards found in employee parking lots. Asphalt and other parking ...

Knowing the different types of asphalt

Asphalt is a durable and smooth material that is used to cover roads where thousands of vehicles with varying sizes ply. Asphalt is an all-round solution for roads, pavements, tarmacs and parking lots. Without asphalt, road transportation would not be convenient as it is today and there is no denying the fact that even drivers love asphalt. A well-maintained asphalt pavement can offer lots of benefits, and this is where sealcoating in Orlando comes in. But we will not be talking about the mai...

Reasons Why Sealcoating in Orlando is important

A parking lot made with asphalt can last somewhere between twenty and thirty years, but if the proper maintenance and protection measures are not taken, it can deteriorate within a much shorter time. The sun and heavy rain in Florida are enough to cause damage to asphalt pavement within a short time. This is why sealcoating is recommended for your parking lot every two to three years. Sealcoating in Orlando keeps your parking lot protected After some time, asphalt paveme...