ASPHALT PATCH REPAIR
Asphalt services across the Kansas City metro. In-house crews, free proposals, family owned.
Asphalt Patch Repair in the Kansas City Metro
There's a pothole at your entrance that keeps getting bigger, or a strip of drive lane that breaks up every year no matter what goes in it. The real question is whether the damage stops at the surface. We patch asphalt for commercial properties and homeowners across the Kansas City metro, from a few failed spots in an apartment lot to a driveway crumbling at the apron. A patch that lasts starts with saw-cut edges. We cut a clean rectangle around the failure instead of feathering into ragged pavement, remove the failed material, and tack-coat the vertical faces so the new hot mix bonds to the old asphalt instead of sitting against it.
There are two legitimate ways to patch asphalt. A surface patch removes and replaces the top couple of inches, and it's the right repair when the damage stops there, like raveling along a seam or a shallow depression that hasn't cracked through. Full-depth patching takes the asphalt out down to the base, recompacts or rebuilds whatever is soft underneath, and paves back in compacted lifts. Potholes almost always need full depth, because a pothole means water already got into the base and softened it. Throwing cold mix in from the top is the fix that comes back out by spring.
Sometimes patching is triage. If failed areas keep spreading year over year, the base under the pavement is going, and patches buy time instead of fixing the problem. Buying time can still be the right move when budget or season says wait, but you should know that's what you're buying. On commercial properties, access often matters as much as the repair. We work drive lanes in pieces so tenants and delivery trucks keep moving. A section cut out in the morning usually carries traffic again by evening.
What's Included With Every Project
- Free onsite consultation and project evaluation
- Written proposal with scope, materials, timeline, and total price
- Base, drainage, and slope planned on every job
- Our own operators and finishers on every job
- Materials as specified in the proposal, never substituted
- Thorough site cleanup before we leave
- Written workmanship guarantee
- Callbacks the same or next business day
Asphalt Patch Repair
Free proposals · KC metro · Family owned
Asphalt Patch Repair In Your Area
We provide asphalt patch repair services across the full Kansas City metro. Click your city for local project details.
Asphalt Patch Repair FAQs
Should I patch my asphalt or repave the whole thing?
A useful rule is how much of the pavement is failing. If the bad areas add up to a small fraction and the rest still drains and rides fine, patching makes sense. When failures are scattered everywhere, or the same spots come back every year after repair, you're paying repair prices for a replacement problem. We look at the whole surface during the visit before recommending either. Neither the visit nor the written proposal costs anything, and it says plainly which kind of job yours is.
How long does a proper asphalt patch last?
A full-depth patch over a recompacted base should last as long as the pavement around it, and on older asphalt it usually outlasts the surrounding surface. A surface patch is shorter-lived by nature, generally a few years depending on traffic and how much water moves through that spot. What kills patches early is corner-cutting you can't see once the job is rolled flat. You see it the following spring, when the edges unravel and the center sinks.
Can you match my existing asphalt?
Structurally, yes. Visually, not at first. Fresh asphalt is black and your existing pavement has grayed with age, so a new patch reads darker for a season or two before it weathers toward the color around it. We match the mix type and compact it flush, so the ride and the edges are seamless. Give it a season or two of sun and the color difference quietly disappears.
Is my job too small? Do you have a minimum?
There's no single minimum, since it depends on the type of job, but mobilization is real. Bringing a crew and hot mix to a site costs about the same whether we patch one pothole or twelve, so a single small hole carries a high price per square foot. A pothole or two on its own usually isn't worth the trip for either of us. Most small jobs make sense grouped, like fixing every failed spot on a property in one visit, and if you call about one pothole we'll tell you honestly what would make the trip worth it.