Driveways, commercial lots and truck areas paved in Mount Vernon, where I-57 and I-64 meet, with free estimates and 25% off.
Free estimates25% off
Main routes: I-57, I-64, and Route 37
Two interstates run together along the west side of this city and split at a stack interchange on the southwest corner, which is why so much freight and industry sits here. The city has three industrial parks and a 48-acre Continental Tire plant. Founded in 1817, it is also the Jefferson County seat, with the 1854 Appellate Court House still in use and Cedarhurst Center for the Arts on a 90-acre campus.
We pave driveways and parking lots across town, plus the yard and truck surfaces industrial ground needs. A residential drive typically gets 2 to 3 inches of compacted hot-mix asphalt over compacted rock. Anything handling trailers gets a deeper base and more than one lift. Call (866) 490-7680 for a free estimate, and you get 25% off.
Neighborhoods here run from older streets with narrow drives and aging aprons to newer additions with wide parking pads. Both fail the same way when the base was thin: edges crumble, then the surface dips. We dig out the soft ground, compact rock in layers and place hot mix that gets rolled hot, typically 2 to 3 inches compacted for cars and pickups. Work trucks and boats call for a heavier build.
Driveway pavingRetail and restaurant lots along Veterans Memorial Drive, church and school parking, medical offices and industrial park yards all take different loads. We plan aisles and entrances around real traffic, size the base to the heaviest vehicle, and grade to planned drainage. Lots can be rebuilt in phases so the business keeps operating while work moves across the site.
Parking lot pavingPrivate roads, industrial park access drives, dock approaches and subdivision streets get graded, crowned and built over a compacted rock base sized to the traffic. Truck entrances take the deepest base and the thickest asphalt, because a loaded trailer turning at walking speed works pavement edges harder than a steady day of cars.
Road constructionGeneral paving in Mount Vernon can be as simple as a new apron where the drive meets the street or as big as an overlay across a business lot. Either way the estimate spells out the base work, the asphalt thickness and what the finished surface should look like.
Asphalt paving
The city sits on high ground between Casey Creek and the Big Muddy River, which join south of town in Rend Lake. That elevation helps, but the uplands around here are loess-covered claypan soils: a dense subsoil that sheds water slowly, hard when dry and sticky when wet. We grade for runoff, remove soft material and compact the base in layers.
When you compare bids, ask each contractor for three numbers in writing: the compacted asphalt thickness, the base depth, and what happens to the water. Those three decide how long the surface lasts.
Typical ranges. Your Mount Vernon estimate is sized to the soil, the traffic and the drainage on your property.
Straight answers for Mount Vernon homeowners and property managers. Anything else, call (866) 490-7680.
It means water moves down slowly, so it tends to sit in the base unless the surface drains well. The fix is grading that sends runoff off the pavement, removing soft subgrade and building a compacted rock base deep enough to spread the load above it.
Yes. Truck parking, dock approaches and trailer storage need a deeper compacted base and asphalt placed in more than one lift. We walk the site, ask what uses it and where water goes, then size the pavement during the free estimate. You get 25% off.
On a Mount Vernon job the price comes down to size, how much base work is needed, the asphalt thickness, whether old pavement has to come out, drainage fixes and how easily trucks can reach the work. Your written estimate lists each of those so you can compare it with other bids line by line.
In Mount Vernon that is the piece that takes the most abuse, so it gets extra attention: a firm base, a tie-in that sits flush with the road, and a shape that moves water to the ditch or gutter instead of back toward the drive.
We pave all around Mount Vernon, across Jefferson County and the rest of greater St. Louis on both sides of the river.
| Town | County | Miles from Mount Vernon |
|---|---|---|
| Woodlawn, IL | Jefferson County | 6.4 |
| Dix, IL | Jefferson County | 9.1 |
| Waltonville, IL | Jefferson County | 9.4 |
| Nason, IL | Jefferson County | 9.9 |
| Kell, IL | Marion County | 12.0 |
| Walnut Hill, IL | Marion County | 13.2 |
| Ashley, IL | Washington County | 14.7 |
| Richview, IL | Washington County | 14.9 |
| Radom, IL | Washington County | 15.1 |
| Irvington, IL | Washington County | 15.7 |
Free on-site estimates and 25% off. Driveways, parking lots and private roads in Mount Vernon and the towns around it.
Tell us what you want paved and where. We'll call to set up a time to walk the site, measure, and give you a written quote with your 25% off.