Driveways, farm yards, shop pads and lanes paved in asphalt or recycled millings, built on compacted rock and drained on purpose.
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Main routes: Highway H and Highway W
Highway W is Water Street and Highway H is Hill Street, which about covers the village layout. Sixty-odd residents, a brick general store from the 1860s still standing, and farm ground in every direction. Driveways and yards are the work here, with a small lot now and then.
Paynesville was platted in 1831 and named for a St. Louis tradesman, William Payne. The Meloan, Cummins and Co. store, on the National Register since 1993, has watched these street surfaces change more than once. We build drives and yards the way we would anywhere: cut the grade, set the ditch or culvert, compact rock in layers, then pave. Free estimates, and you get 25% off.
Country drives here run long, sometimes several hundred feet from the road to the house, across ground that carries water as readily as it grows corn. We set the entrance culvert and the ditch line first so the drive is not doubling as a creek after a storm. Then rock in compacted layers and a typical 2 to 3 inches of hot mix, or recycled asphalt millings when the run is very long.
Driveway pavingLot work out here means a church, a grain or equipment yard, or a pad beside a shop building. Those surfaces take loaded trucks and trailers, so the base carries the design rather than the asphalt thickness. We set the slope so water sheds to a field edge or a ditch instead of soaking the ground under the pavement.
Parking lot pavingFarm lanes, field access roads and the short streets off Water and Hill get graded, crowned and built on compacted rock, with asphalt sized to the equipment using them. On a lane that sees a combine twice a year and little else, chip seal or recycled millings often make better sense than a full hot-mix section.
Road constructionOut around Paynesville, general asphalt work often means shop pads, machine-shed aprons, turnarounds for trucks and trailers, and the stretch of lane where gravel keeps washing out. We build those with drainage and heavy tires in mind.
Asphalt paving
Eastern Pike County sits in the Lincoln Hills, steep ground with limestone and shale outcrops on the knobs and ridges, and Mississippi River bottoms closer to the water. Slopes move runoff fast and bottom ground holds it. Either way, freeze-thaw winters find whatever water stayed under the pavement, so drainage gets designed first.
The part of the job you can see is the last two inches. Ask what is underneath, how it will be compacted, and which way the finished surface drains.
Typical ranges. Your Paynesville estimate is sized to the soil, the traffic and the drainage on your property.
Straight answers for Paynesville homeowners and property managers. Anything else, call (866) 490-7680.
It depends on use. A paved drive stops the yearly gravel loss and the mud at the door, but a very long run costs real money in hot mix. Recycled asphalt millings compact hard and cover more ground per dollar, so we price both and let you compare.
We work across greater St. Louis on both sides of the river and out into the surrounding counties, Pike included. Annada, Eolia, Clarksville and Elsberry all sit close to Paynesville. Call for a free estimate, and the work comes with 25% off.
It helps, because you know where water sits on the Paynesville property and how the drive gets used. If you cannot be there, tell us what you want done when you call and we will work out the best way to walk the site and go over the details with you.
Both cost less than hot mix and both work well on long drives around Paynesville. Chip seal gives a tough, textured surface; compacted millings bind tighter than gravel and cut the dust. We will walk the lane and tell you honestly where each one makes sense.
We pave all around Paynesville, across Pike County and the rest of greater St. Louis on both sides of the river.
| Town | County | Miles from Paynesville |
|---|---|---|
| Annada, MO | Pike County | 3.8 |
| Eolia, MO | Pike County | 6.3 |
| Clarksville, MO | Pike County | 7.4 |
| Whiteside, MO | Lincoln County | 8.2 |
| Elsberry, MO | Lincoln County | 8.9 |
| Hamburg, IL | Calhoun County | 10.1 |
| Pleasant Hill, IL | Pike County | 12.6 |
| Silex, MO | Lincoln County | 12.6 |
| Nebo, IL | Pike County | 13.8 |
| Louisiana, MO | Pike County | 15.1 |
Free on-site estimates and 25% off. Driveways, parking lots and private roads in Paynesville 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.