Ottawa, Ontario
Laid to grade,
ready for traffic.
Commercial asphalt paving, parking lot repair and line painting for Ottawa and Orleans.
We build to the grade the lot was drawn for, not to what the old surface happened to be.
Water leaves the surface instead of standing on it and working into the base.
Compaction gets the passes it needs, so the lot takes daily traffic without a spring repair list.
The lot comes first
Asphalt is the part of a parking lot everyone sees, and the part that gets blamed when something goes wrong. In practice most failures start underneath it. A base that was not brought to a consistent density, a subgrade that was not stripped of organic material, or a low spot that never shed water will show up through the surface in a season or two, no matter how good the mix was.
Access decides more of the plan than people expect. Where a paver can stand, how a tri axle reaches a rear service court, whether a loader can turn in a drive aisle between delivery windows: those constraints shape the phasing before a single tonne of mix is ordered. On a lot that stays in service, the sections are planned so that tenants keep a usable route and accessible parking at every stage of the work.
Grades are where drainage is settled. Water has to leave the surface and reach a catch basin without cutting across a stall row or ponding at the base of a curb. That means working to the fall the lot was designed for, adjusting where settlement or patching has changed it, and setting the basin and the apron so the low point is where it belongs.
Compaction is the quiet part. The mat is placed and rolled inside a workable temperature range, in a pattern that closes the surface and reaches the density the base and mix allow. Striping comes last, after the mat has cooled and traffic has been kept off it, because paint on a bleeding surface is work that gets redone.
Consultation and site visit
We walk the lot, note the base, the drainage and the access, and listen to how the property actually runs.
Scope and grade plan
A written scope that names the work, the phasing, the limits and what the lot will look like at handover.
Paving and compaction
Base work, then the lift or lifts the scope calls for, rolled while the mix is still workable.
Striping and handover
Layout, paint, a final walk of the lot, and the notes you need for next season.
A short paving season and a long winter
01 / Season
Warmer months
Paving and sealcoating sit inside the warmer months. Hot mix has to be laid and rolled within a workable temperature range, sealcoat needs warm, dry conditions to cure, and the plant has to be running. Scheduling is planned around that window rather than against it.
02 / Freeze-thaw
Winter load on a lot
Freeze-thaw cycles, plow blades and salt work on every commercial lot in the region. Water that gets into a crack or under an edge opens further each time it freezes. Drainage that works and a surface that sheds water are what limit the damage.
03 / Planning
Winter is for planning
The coldest months are a good time to walk a lot, look at where it holds water and decide the scope, so the work can be booked into the paving season instead of waiting for it.
Commercial lots across Ottawa
All service areasQuestions we get before a site visit
All questionsCommercial parking lots, plaza and retail lots, business park and office lots, light industrial yards, private access roads and laneways. That covers new paving and reconstruction, overlays, patching, line painting, sealcoating, crack sealing and catch basin repairs on lots that are already in service.
It depends on the project. Lot area, base condition, drainage, truck and paver access, how much of the lot has to stay open, and the time of year all move the number. We walk the lot, look at the base and the drainage, and put the scope in writing before any figure is discussed.
Paving and sealcoating sit inside the warmer months, because hot mix has to be laid and compacted within a workable temperature range and the plant has to be running. Repairs, crack sealing and drainage work can often be scheduled around that window, but the surface has to be dry and above freezing.
Usually, yes. Most commercial lots are done in phases, one section at a time, with the drive aisle and the accessible stalls kept usable. Tight downtown lots and busy plazas are often scheduled after hours or over a weekend so tenant traffic is not cut off.
It depends on the base. If the asphalt is worn and cracked but the base is intact and drains, an overlay is the reasonable path. If the base is moving, holding water or breaking up in the same places every year, patching and overlaying just carry the problem forward, and reconstruction is the honest answer.
After the mat has cooled and the surface is ready to take paint, which usually means the paving work is done and traffic has been kept off. Painting on a mat that is still bleeding or holding surface oil wastes the paint and the layout.
Yes. Both are commonly scheduled as stand alone maintenance on a lot that is otherwise sound. We will tell you plainly when a lot is a candidate for sealcoating and when the money is better spent on a repair or an overlay.
Ottawa and the commercial districts around it, including Orleans, Kanata, Kanata North, Nepean, Barrhaven, Gloucester, Downtown Ottawa, Vanier, Stittsville, Cumberland, Trainyards and the Merivale Road corridor.
Start a project
Tell us about the lot. Access, current condition, drainage and the hours the lot has to stay open are the details that shape a scope.
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