In this town you can start a morning in sunshine and be standing in an inch of warm rain by two o'clock, so we plan the day backwards from the sky.
We're locally owned, we run our own crews, and asphalt is all we do: new driveways, patching and crack filling, resurfacing, sealcoating, milling and parking lot striping. New Orleans Asphalt Paving works Orleans Parish and the suburbs on both sides of the river. Most of a working week goes to commercial lots, churches and apartment complexes, and the rest goes to driveways like yours.
Four things you will never deal with from my crew:
- Showing up hours after we said, with no phone call
- A hard sell on your front steps
- Anybody talking down to you about your own property
- Cutoffs, buckets and tar tracks left behind on your grass
Our goal is simple. The work done correctly, done on the schedule we gave you, at a fair price.
Keep going and you'll see how each piece of the work is actually done, where we cover, and what folks want settled before they book. Or just ring me at (504) 607-7395 and I'll come walk it with you.
What happens when you call
You get me on the phone, not a call center, and I'll ask you two or three questions before I ever set foot on the property: how old is it, what's it doing wrong, and can a truck get back there. Then I come out and walk it with you.
I measure, I look at where water sits after one of our afternoon downpours, and I press on the soft spots to see whether the ground underneath still has anything left in it. That walk is what decides everything. Size, depth, access past the gate and the oak roots, and how far gone the surface already is are what move the number, not a guess off a satellite photo. Something simple like driveway sealcoating is quick to price.
A full tear-out takes longer to look at, and it should.
Keep reading for the paving, patching, striping and the answers I give most often, then pick up the phone.
Driveway Sealcoating
Gray, faded surface. Grit that brushes off on your shoe. Hairline cracks starting to web.
Driveway sealcoating is how we buy back the years the sun took out of your blacktop. Gray means the binder holding those stones together has cooked off, and once the surface is open, rain works its way down and softens things from below. We blow and brush it clean, cut the grass back off the edges, prime the oil drips so the sealer actually grabs, then squeegee on an asphalt emulsion sealcoat and hand-cut the borders.
It runs a day, and the car stays off until the next morning.
Plenty of sealcoating companies skip the priming and the edge work, and you see it by the first year when the coat lifts right off the oil spot under where you park.
Square footage moves the price, along with how much crack work comes first, how many tight edges there are, and whether we're sealing a driveway or handling parking lot sealcoating. Wet weeks push the schedule; sealer needs dry pavement to cure. If the surface is too far gone to seal, we tell you that and talk about asphalt paving instead.
Asphalt Paving
Gray and faded, edges crumbling into the grass, a low spot that holds water after every rain.
Asphalt paving is most of what we do, and the part that decides how long a drive lasts happens before the hot mix ever shows up. On ground as soft as ours, we dig out, build a crushed stone base and roll it until it quits moving. Skip that step and you get a beautiful black surface that dips, alligators and splits open by the second summer, usually right where the truck tires sit.
What moves the price on your job is the size of the area, how we get a truck to it, how deep we have to go, and what shape the old surface is in. A drive needing asphalt patching in two spots is nowhere near the job of one we take down to dirt.
New work has to cure before anybody seals it, and we handle the driveway sealcoating and parking lot sealcoating later ourselves. Call me at (504) 607-7395.
Asphalt Patching
A hole by the mailbox that grabs the same tire every time you back out.
Patching is for trouble in one spot, and that hole is telling you water already got under the surface and turned the base to soup. So we saw a clean square around it, dig the wet stone out, and lay fresh hot mix in layers, rolling each one tight. Cold patch shoveled from a bag and stamped down with a boot holds until the next real downpour, then it floats out and you have the same hole plus a mess.
What moves the price on a patch job is how many spots there are, how deep the soft ground runs once we open it up, and whether the truck and roller can get around back or have to work off a narrow drive. Patches scattered across a lot eat more time than four sitting together. If they keep multiplying, we start talking about broader asphalt repair instead. Let patches set before any driveway sealcoating goes over them.
Asphalt Repair
Soft spots that sink under the tire. Loose gravel where solid surface used to be.
Asphalt repair starts with deciding whether you have a surface problem or a ground problem, because those get fixed two different ways. A spot that dips when you roll over it means water found its way in and carried the stone out from under the pavement. Patching the top of that is a bandage over a splinter nobody pulled.
We saw the failed section out square, dig down to something solid, rebuild what is missing underneath, then lay hot mix and roll it tight to the edges.
What moves the price is the size of the failed area, how deep the damage runs, and whether the truck can get near it. Catching it early is cheaper than letting it spread, which is why asphalt crack filling and small patch work usually save you a full-depth repair later. Most of our work is paving and sealcoating, but repair is what keeps the rest honest.
Asphalt Crack Filling
Cracks you can catch a fingernail in, with grass coming up through a few of them.
Asphalt crack filling is the work we do before anything else: we clean the crack out, blow it dry, and pour hot rubberized sealant down so water quits running to the base. Left open, a crack is a funnel.
Rain gets under the surface, softens what holds it up, and the edges start breaking away until a line becomes a hole and you're paying for asphalt driveway repair with a saw and a load of hot mix instead of a bucket of sealant.
What moves the price is total footage of crack, how wide and deep they've gotten, whether we're cutting weeds out first, and how easy the driveway is to get a machine onto.
We fill first, then come back for driveway sealcoating, because sealcoat poured over an open crack sinks in and telegraphs right through. Same order on parking lot sealcoating. Give us a ring at (504) 607-7395 and we'll come look.
Asphalt Driveway Repair
Cracks fanning out like a spider web, and a puddle still sitting two days after rain.
Asphalt driveway repair is mostly detective work before it's shovel work. That spider webbing means the surface has gone brittle and lost its flex, and water standing on it two days later tells me it's soaking down into the stone. Our ground doesn't help either. Soft river soil settles under a drive the way a mattress gives under one hip, and once the support goes, the top breaks over it.
Leave it alone and a dip you could have patched becomes a full-depth cut, edges crumbling into the grass, loose gravel tracked into the garage.
What moves the price here: the square footage, how deep we have to saw and dig out, whether a truck can back right up to it or we wheel material in by hand, and whether drainage gets corrected first. Once the damage is spread across the whole slab instead of one corner, a resurfacing driveway job beats chasing patches every year.
As sealcoat contractors too, we do the repair first and the sealing later, so paving and sealcoating stay on one schedule.
Resurfacing Driveway
Alligator cracking through the middle, old patches everywhere, the surface gone gray and tired.
Resurfacing your driveway is the right call when the top has failed but what sits under it is still solid. We start with asphalt milling at the garage apron and the street edge so the new mat ties in flush instead of building a lip your bumper finds every time. Then fresh hot mix over the old, rolled while it will still take a roller. Most residential drives run a day, and you stay off it about 24 hours.
Skip the milling and skip the soft-spot repair, and the old cracks come right back through the new surface after a couple of rainy stretches. That is the difference between a real overlay and paint over rust.
Size, access, how much has to come out, and live oak roots Uptown are what move the number. Get me out to look at it, (504) 607-7395.
Asphalt Milling
Your lot sits higher than the curb now, and the doors scrape where they used to swing clear.
Asphalt milling is how we take the old surface off instead of stacking new asphalt on top of it. A rotary drum grinds the worn layer away, we sweep the base clean, and the new mat goes back down at the height it started. Skip that step and the lot climbs a little every time it's paved. Water that used to run to the catch basins parks in the middle, thresholds get short, and the curb stops holding anything back.
What moves the price on a mill is square footage, how deep we cut, and how much hand work sits around manhole lids, drain grates and corners the machine can't reach. Access counts too, since the grinder and the haul trucks need room.
On commercial work we mill, pave, then come back for parking lot striping. Paving and sealcoating are separate visits; fresh asphalt gets sealed later.
Parking Lot Striping
Faded stall lines. Cars parking at angles nobody planned.
Parking lot striping is the part your customers actually read, and worn paint tells them you quit paying attention somewhere around the last Saints season. We chalk a fresh layout instead of tracing the ghosts of the old lines, because those ghosts are usually somebody's bad math from a decade back.
Stalls, directional arrows, fire lanes, crosswalks, and accessible spaces built to the ADA spec, with the slope and dimensions pulled for your lot before a drop of paint goes down.
Most lots get parking lot sealcoating and striping in the same visit. Fresh sealer gives the paint something to bite; lines rolled onto a dusty, oxidized surface start flaking off by the next rainy stretch. We stage it in sections and keep part of the lot open for you.
Stall count, how much of the layout is new, and how many symbols and legends you need are what move the price.
Residential and commercial asphalt paving in New Orleans
Residential and commercial asphalt paving in New Orleans really means two different phone calls coming into the same truck. Homeowners, apartment property managers, HOA boards, churches, restaurants, warehouses and general contractors all get the same crew, and none of them get the same plan. Every job gets scoped on the property itself.
I walk it, look at where the paver and the roller can actually get in, check the gate widths and the low oak limbs, and ask what hours we can run without costing you a lunch rush.
You want your driveway back for the car and no loose stone tracked onto the kitchen floor. A property manager wants half the lot open while we pave the other half, dumpster access kept clear, and the lines back down before Monday morning. The smallest thing we do is a single apron at the curb. The biggest is a multi-acre lot phased out section by section, with the parking lot sealcoating and striping finished last.
Call me at (504) 607-7395 and we can set a time to walk it.
Why New Orleans homeowners and businesses choose us
Homeowners and businesses in New Orleans choose us for the same reason: we run both sides of the work off the same trucks. A single driveway sealcoating job in the morning, parking lot sealcoating and striping for a shopping center the same week. Same crew either way, same asphalt emulsion sealcoat out of the tank, mixed on site instead of watered down to stretch a load.
Licensed, bonded and insured, and if you want to see the certificate before we start, ask and we will get it to you.
Somebody is at the office weekdays, nine to five, and a message gets a call back from me, not a phone room in another state. If we set a day, we show up that day, and if rain moves it, you hear that from us first.
The estimate costs you nothing, and the number comes off what we measure: square footage, how a truck gets in, how far gone the surface is, how much edge prep it needs. It does not grow later.
And if the work does not sit right afterward, we come back out.
Areas we serve
Areas we serve run from the river bend out to the parish lines, and the truck crosses the Twin Span often enough that the crew knows which lane closes first. Here's where we actually work.
- Uptown
- Garden District
- Irish Channel
- Central City
- Broadmoor
- Carrollton
- Hollygrove
- Bayou St. John
- Tremé
- Marigny
- Bywater
- Algiers Point
- New Orleans East
- Kenner
- Harahan
- River Ridge
- Elmwood
- Gretna
- Terrytown
- Marrero
- Westwego
- Belle Chasse
- Arabi
- Slidell
- Mandeville
Uptown changes the job before we unload. Live oak roots lift driveway edges into humps, and the drives themselves are narrow enough that big equipment stays on the trailer while we work by hand along the fence line. On the West Bank the ground is soft and the settling shows up at the apron first, so we're looking at the base long before anyone talks about a top layer.
Commercial work pulls us toward Elmwood, Kenner and the East, where paving and sealcoating on a busy lot gets phased so you never lose all your spaces at once.
One limit worth saying out loud: a single residential drive on the Northshore usually waits a few days until we have a second job near it. Two hours of bridge time for one small pour isn't fair to you on the schedule or to us on the calendar. Larger jobs over there we book on their own.
Frequently asked questions
What services do you offer?
- Asphalt paving for driveways, lots and private drives - Patching, pothole repair and crack filling - Resurfacing and asphalt milling - Driveway sealcoating - Parking lot sealcoating and striping Most of our week is asphalt paving and sealcoating for homes, churches, apartment courts and small commercial lots around New Orleans. Same crew, same trucks, whether it's a two-car drive or a lot with forty spaces to lay out.
What does it cost to pave or seal my driveway?
Square footage sets the floor, and after that it's access, depth and condition. A truck that can back straight in is cheaper than one that has to shuttle asphalt through a narrow gate. A drive with a sound base needs surface work; one with soft spots needs the bad section dug out and rebuilt, which is a different job entirely. We measure before we quote, never off a satellite photo.
What's the difference between sealcoating and resurfacing?
Sealcoating is a coating, resurfacing is new pavement. An asphalt emulsion sealcoat goes over pavement that's still sound and brings it back jet black, and it gets redone every two to three years. Resurfacing means new asphalt laid over the old surface. If your drive has alligator cracking and spots that flex under a tire, sealer just makes the damage look wet.
Can you sealcoat a concrete driveway?
No, and it's the question we get most. Concrete sealcoating isn't a thing we can do with asphalt material, because emulsion won't bond to concrete. Concrete needs a sealer made for concrete. Plenty of drives here are an asphalt slab with a concrete apron at the street, so we seal the asphalt, tape the joint clean, and leave the apron alone.
How long am I off it?
Figure about 24 hours before driving on new asphalt, and the same after a jet black driveway sealcoating. Rain is the real variable. A pop-up storm on fresh sealer means doing it over, so we watch the forecast and would rather push a day than gamble your driveway on a cloud.
Will you damage my grass, gate or garage floor?
That's what hand work is for. We brush and cut edges by hand, tape off garage lips and walkways, and set boards where the wheels of the machine would otherwise chew turf.
Do you offer a warranty or guarantee for your work?
We do, and we'll go through it when we come out to look at the job. Any asphalt sealcoating company can spray a driveway in an afternoon; the part that saves you money is doing it right the first time so you're not paying twice in two years.
How do we get started?
We come out, measure, look at what the base is doing and talk through options. Weekdays, nine to five, and a message left after hours gets returned.
Contact New Orleans Asphalt Paving now
You can reach me about New Orleans asphalt paving at (504) 607-7395, and the more you tell me in that first message, the better I can plan it: rough size of the drive or lot, how rough the surface has gotten, and whether a truck and trailer can get in without clipping the neighbor's fence.
Size, access, how deep we have to dig, and the condition the base has fallen into all move what the work runs. So does the calendar. A wet stretch pushes seal work back, and I won't spread asphalt emulsion sealcoat over damp pavement just to hold a date somebody wrote down.
We do residential drives and commercial lots, paving and sealcoating both, and if you're shopping for an asphalt sealcoating company, ask me what I'd put on your surface and why I picked it.
Somebody's here weekday business hours, and messages get returned. We're licensed, bonded and insured, and I'll hand you the certificate if you ask.