Driveways, church and shop parking lots and private drives paved in hot-mix asphalt over a properly compacted base.
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Main routes: Natural Bridge Road and I-70
Natural Bridge Road carries Route 115 straight through Pine Lawn, and I-70 crosses the city, so a place of about six-tenths of a square mile handles more traffic than its size suggests. Driveways and small commercial lots are the everyday work here.
The housing stock dates to a time when the city held more than twice today's population, which means many drives are original or close to it. Old blacktop over a thin base cracks along the wheel paths and sinks at the apron. We take out what has failed, fix the base, reset the grade so water leaves, then place and compact hot mix. Call (866) 490-7680 for a free estimate and 25% off.
City drives here are short, close to the house and often tied to a walk or a side entrance. Detail work matters: a clean saw cut at the sidewalk, a rebuilt apron, a finished height that leaves no lip at the garage. Underneath, soft subgrade gets replaced with compacted rock, and a home drive typically takes 2 to 3 inches of hot mix.
Driveway pavingShops and churches along Natural Bridge Road and Jennings Station Road need a lot that handles delivery vans and trash trucks hitting the same spots every week. We build the base for that load, slope the surface toward planned outlets, and set the entrance so drivers turning off a busy road are not riding across the edge of your pavement.
Parking lot pavingRear drives behind storefronts, apartment service lanes and short private streets get built as roads rather than driveways: graded subgrade, crowned surface, rock compacted in lifts, asphalt matched to the trucks using them. The tie-in at the public street gets attention, since that joint is usually first to break.
Road constructionPlenty of Pine Lawn pavement just needs the right repair at the right time. Full-depth patches, overlays and edge rebuilds stretch the life of what you already have. When a surface is past saving, we say so and quote the rebuild instead.
Asphalt paving
Upland ground across this part of the county is loess over clay, and the county soil survey calls out low strength and frost action for local roads, recommending adequate base material plus side ditches and culverts. Put plainly: water under pavement through a freeze-thaw winter is the enemy. The base and the drainage keep it out.
A cheap bid usually gets cheap somewhere you cannot see. Ask what depth of stone goes down, how thick the asphalt is after rolling, and who fixes it if water still stands.
Typical ranges. Your Pine Lawn estimate is sized to the soil, the traffic and the drainage on your property.
Straight answers for Pine Lawn homeowners and property managers. Anything else, call (866) 490-7680.
Sometimes. If the base is still sound and the surface is simply worn, an overlay works and costs less. If cracks run the full depth or the drive has settled in spots, the base has failed, and an overlay over that will crack again within a season or two.
Yes. Multi-unit drives and small lots wear differently than a single-family driveway, because more vehicles use the same few paths. We build the base for that traffic and lay out parking so cars are not backing across the weakest part of the pavement.
No. Fresh asphalt in Pine Lawn needs time to cure before it is sealed, typically several months and often up to a year. Sealing too early can trap oils in the pavement. After that, sealing every few years helps it resist water, sun and salt.
Often it can. A settled apron on a Pine Lawn drive usually means the base under it gave way. We dig out the soft material, rebuild with compacted stone, and reset the grade so water leaves the drive instead of pooling at the garage.
We pave all around Pine Lawn, across St. Louis County and the rest of greater St. Louis on both sides of the river.
| Town | County | Miles from Pine Lawn |
|---|---|---|
| Uplands Park, MO | St. Louis County | 0.4 |
| Northwoods, MO | St. Louis County | 0.7 |
| Velda Village Hills, MO | St. Louis County | 0.7 |
| Beverly Hills, MO | St. Louis County | 0.8 |
| Hillsdale, MO | St. Louis County | 0.9 |
| Velda City, MO | St. Louis County | 1.0 |
| Glen Echo Park, MO | St. Louis County | 1.2 |
| Pasadena Hills, MO | St. Louis County | 1.3 |
| Norwood Court, MO | St. Louis County | 1.5 |
| Normandy, MO | St. Louis County | 1.6 |
Free on-site estimates and 25% off. Driveways, parking lots and private roads in Pine Lawn 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.