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Asphalt Repair and Patching in Augusta

Asphalt Repair and Patching in Augusta, Wisconsin.

Pothole, patch and sinkhole repair in Augusta, cut back to sound material and rebuilt properly.

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About 25 minutes southeast of Eau Claire on Highway 12. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

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What an Asphalt Repair and Patching Job Looks Like in Augusta

Lincoln Street is the commercial spine, carrying Highway 12 east and west through town, with the bank, the hardware store, the pharmacy, the clinic and most of the food and drink strung along it. Stone Street is the secondary cluster.

Industrial Drive at the west end is where the square footage is. Augusta has a genuine industrial base for a town of 1,567, including the plant where Bush's baked beans were first made, and that's loading dock and truck yard surface rather than parking lot. It fails differently and it gets specified differently.

Asphalt Repair and Patching specifically in Augusta

The Industrial Drive properties take dock and trailer loading, which shows up as rutting and edge failure rather than potholes. Those get cut square and rebuilt to the base. In the old core the repairs are usually smaller and wetter: a section that has given way over a base that has stayed damp through too many springs. Those get dug to something firm rather than filled and levelled.

The Driveways and Lots in Augusta

Augusta sits in southeastern Eau Claire County where Highway 12 runs east and Highway 27 crosses it, about ten miles north of the interstate. Bridge Creek and Diamond Valley Creek run through town, both trout water, which is a nicer way of saying there's more groundwater under this town than under most.

Augusta has the oldest building profile of any town in the southern half of the service area. A third of its houses were built before 1940, more than three quarters before 1980, and just seven units went up in the entire 2010s.

So the honest starting question here is rarely what color sealer. It's whether the drive under it's still worth protecting. On a good number of Augusta drives it very much is, because a well-built old surface outlasts a badly built new one. On others the base gave out years ago and no coating changes that.

Augusta

We work the whole village rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Augusta: Lincoln Street, Dells Mill, Augusta Wildlife Area.

Standard 48-inch frost depth, with more shallow groundwater than the norm because of the two creeks. Wet subgrade heaves harder than dry subgrade does.

From our jobs

Job Photos

Two fresh asphalt patches laid in a worn parking lot, cones still around them
Full-depth patches laid and coned off
A crew member kneeling at a stall line working patch material by hand
Hand work at the stall lines
A fresh full-depth asphalt patch coned off in a commercial lot outside an industrial building with dock doors
A full-depth patch outside the dock doors

All job photos

Filled vs. repaired

The pothole that comes back every spring is being filled rather than repaired. Cold patch is a temporary measure and an honest one when it's sold as that: it's loose material tamped into a hole, with no bond to the sides and nothing done about the failed base underneath. It gets you through a winter. A real repair means cutting a clean square back to material that's still sound, taking out everything soft below it, putting the base back and compacting it in lifts, then laying hot asphalt and rolling it. The patch ends up stronger than what is around it, which is why the failure doesn't come back through the middle of it.

Filled

The quick version

  • Cold patch tamped into the hole as found
  • Ragged edges, so there's nothing to key against
  • Failed base left in place
  • Back within a season, usually wider

Repaired

What we do

  • Saw cut to clean vertical edges, back to sound asphalt
  • Soft material dug out until the bottom is firm
  • Base replaced and compacted in lifts
  • Hot mix laid, rolled, and the joint sealed

Cold patch has its place: it's the right call in February when nothing else can be done. It's the wrong call in July.

What Decides the Price in Augusta

Repairs are priced by area and by how deep the trouble goes, and the depth isn't knowable until it's open. These are the bands most jobs land in.

Single pothole

Up to a few square feet

Measured on site

  • Saw cut, dig out, base, hot mix, compact
  • Cheaper alongside other work

Failed area or apron

Roughly 50 to 300 sq ft

Measured on site

  • The common commercial repair, and the garage apron at home
  • Priced per square foot once the area is measured

Sinkhole or subgrade failure

Depth unknown until opened

Measured on site

  • Often a drainage or utility problem underneath
  • Assessed and quoted before the machine moves

Several repairs on one visit come down substantially per repair, because getting the machine and the crew on site is most of the cost of a small one. If you have three, have them all looked at.

Repair or repave?

Most lots that get deferred don't need repaving.

What we look at before quoting either one.

  • Two or three potholes, the rest of the surface is soundStraightforward patching. Nowhere near needing an overlay.
  • The garage apron has sunk where it meets the concreteCommon and fixable. Usually settlement under the transition, cut out and rebuilt.
  • Cracked into squares in a few areas, sound elsewhereCut those areas out full depth, patch, then seal the whole surface.
  • That squared cracking across most of the lotThe base has gone broadly. Patching it becomes a rolling cost with no end. An overlay or a rebuild is the answer.
  • Water sits in the same spot after every rainGrade or drainage, and it has to be solved before any surface work, or the new surface fails in exactly the same place.

Photos of the worst two areas are usually enough for us to tell you which it is.

How the Work Goes in Augusta

Same method on a driveway apron and on a loading dock approach.

Find the edge of the failure

The visible hole is smaller than the damage. We sound out where the surface is still supported and cut outside that, not around the hole.

Saw cut square, clean vertical faces

A patch keyed against a clean edge stays. A patch feathered against a ragged one fails at the joint, which is why so many patches fail in a ring.

Dig out to something firm

Everything soft comes out. If the bottom is wet, that's a drainage problem and the best patch in the world won't last sitting on water.

Base back in, compacted in lifts

Compacted in layers rather than dumped and rolled once. This is the invisible step that decides whether the repair lasts two years or twenty.

Hot mix, rolled, joint sealed

Laid to the surrounding grade so water still runs where it's supposed to, compacted, and the perimeter joint sealed against the next freeze.

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Questions We Get in Augusta

What Augusta calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
The ground here is wet. Does that change what we should do?
It changes what matters. Augusta has two creeks through it and shallower groundwater than most towns we work in, and wet subgrade heaves harder in a freeze than dry subgrade does. That makes crack sealing worth more here than average, because keeping surface water out of an already damp base is the whole game.
Almost nothing new has been built here. Does that make it harder to price?
It makes the looking matter more and the measuring matter less. Seven housing units went up in Augusta in the whole of the 2010s, so essentially every drive in town has decades on it and a history we cannot see from the road. The square footage takes a minute. Working out whether what is under the surface is still worth protecting is the part that decides the number.
Can you work the Industrial Drive properties, or is that a different contractor?
Same contractor, different job. Dock aprons and truck yards take loading that a parking lot never sees, so they fail as rutting along a repeated wheel path and as edge break-up rather than as a hole in the middle. Those are full-depth repairs and they want walking before a number goes on paper. Start that conversation ahead of the season rather than during it.
Is Augusta far enough out that the drive costs us something?
Augusta is about twenty-five minutes southeast on Highway 12 and it is inside the area we work rather than at the edge of it. The estimate is free, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
How much does pothole repair cost?
Square footage and depth, mostly. A pothole that stops at the surface is a different job from one where the base underneath has gone, and you cannot tell which you have until it is opened. What we can tell you before that: several repairs done on one visit come down substantially per repair, because the trip and the mobilisation are already paid for. The assessment is free.
Why does my patch keep failing?
Almost always because it was filled rather than repaired: no clean cut, no removal of the failed base, and nothing bonding it to the asphalt around it. The failure was underneath and it's still there.
Can you repair a sinkhole in a driveway or lot?
Yes, and quickly. Our newest review is a sinkhole repaired within seven days. A sinkhole means material is being washed out from underneath, usually by drainage or a failed pipe, so the repair includes finding out why.
Is it cheaper to repair the asphalt or repave it?
Repair, until roughly a quarter to a third of the surface has failed. Past that you're patching patches and an overlay becomes better value. The estimate measures how much of your surface has actually failed.
How soon can we drive on a new asphalt patch?
Hot mix takes traffic as soon as it has cooled, usually a few hours. That's the material rather than a schedule: what a specific repair means for your lot is one of the things the estimate works out.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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