Ugly driveway? No problem.
Asphalt paving& sealcoatingin Austinville, VA.
Austinville is home. Our yard is at 751 Oak Grove, our equipment sits here overnight, and most of the crew lives within a few miles of it. If you're in Austinville, you are not a drive — you're the place we start from every morning.
- From our yard
- We're here
- Drive time
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- County
- Wythe County
- ZIP
- 24312
Getting to Austinville
There is no drive. The yard is here, which means Austinville jobs get fitted in around the edges of everything else — a morning start before the crew heads north, or an afternoon once a job up the road wraps early. It also means we're the people you'll see at the store, which tends to concentrate the mind about doing the work properly.
What the pavement deals with here
Austinville sits at roughly 1,930 feet, down in the New River valley and several hundred feet below Hillsville and Independence up on the plateau. That lower, sheltered position gives us a slightly kinder freeze-thaw pattern than the higher ground around us, though nothing like the milder conditions across the North Carolina line. The bigger local factor is water. River-valley properties and the drives running down to them collect and channel runoff in ways a flat lot never does, and by far the most common reason a driveway fails around here is that water had nowhere to go. Grading usually matters more than the surface you put on top of it.
What we get called for around Austinville
Long rural driveways, a lot of them still gravel and a lot of them longer than people expect — a quarter mile is ordinary out here. Plenty of properties running down toward the New River with grades and drainage that need thinking about before anything is surfaced. Farm access roads that need to carry equipment rather than cars. Where lots exist they're small and practical. Much of what we do in Austinville is converting gravel to tar and chip so owners stop regrading every spring, and fixing drainage on drives that have been slowly washing out for years.
- Tar & Chip
The standard answer for a long New River valley driveway. It binds the surface so it stops washing out, at a fraction of what paving the full length would cost.
- Grading & Excavating
Around here this is usually the actual fix. Get the water off and away, and the surface on top lasts. Skip it and nothing else you do matters much.
- Asphalt Paving
For the shorter drives and the turnarounds nearer the house, where a smooth surface is worth the cost.
- Crack Sealing
Cheap, quick, and the difference between a drive that needs a patch and one that needs rebuilding.
The home advantage, and its limits
Being based in Austinville means we can be genuinely flexible here, and it means you can find us. It does not mean we’ll tell you your driveway needs doing when it doesn’t.
The most common thing we say to people in Austinville is “not yet.” A drive that’s gone slightly grey has years left in it. A hairline crack wants sealing, not resurfacing. We’d rather keep a surface healthy for another decade than sell someone a job early — partly because that’s how we’d want to be treated, and partly because in a place this size, that gets around.
Common questions
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- You're based here — does that mean local work is cheaper?
- Not a discount as such, but there's no travel built into it and small jobs are still worth doing. A couple of hours of patching that wouldn't justify a fifty-mile round trip is perfectly practical when the yard is up the road.
- My gravel drive washes out every spring. What are my options?
- Usually grading to fix where the water is going, then tar and chip over the top so the surface binds instead of moving. Paving the whole length in asphalt is an option but on a long drive the cost climbs quickly, and it won't help if the drainage is the real problem.
- Can I come and look at your yard?
- You're welcome to. We're at 751 Oak Grove, Monday to Friday, 8 to 6. It's easier to talk about a job standing next to the equipment than over the phone.