Asphalt Petromat Overlay Repairs
Empire PLS offers Petromat Overlay services throughout Southern California. Our petromat overlay service areas include: Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County Ca., San Bernardino County, and parts of Ventura & San Diego. Please, take a moment to read more about petromat overlay's below. If this looks like a service you are thinking of having done, please, call us to discuss your project. Estimators can help you to make sound, educated decisions about your asphalt needs today.
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Petromat Overlay Candidates
Petromat overlays, or asphalt fabric overlays, is a type of repair Empire-PLS offers when your parking lot has widespread cracking and damage throughout its surface, but the sub-grade is still in good shape. The main reason to consider a petromat overlay versus a standard asphalt overlay is that the petromat fabric helps to create a water barrier between your old asphalt and the new asphalt, and deters the rate at which the old cracks will return to the surface. By utilizing a petromat overlay, you can effectively extend the life of your parking lots or roads by as much as ten to fifteen years. This longevity can be achieved with a basic maintenance plan that includes seal coating and striping every several years depending weather and uses. Property owners and managers can use this type of asphalt repair to buy some time to carefully plan and save for a more costly removal & replacement alternative.
Petromat Overlay Process Defined
On a standard overlay, a contractor will lay 2 inches of asphalt over your existing, cracked asphalt. On a petromat overlay, a layer of polypropylene petromat fabric is put down before the new layer of asphalt is applied. The fabric is designed to form a barrier to water infiltration and absorbs stressful vibration evenly across the surface to reduce reflective and fatigue cracking of the asphalt overlay. In other words, it reduces the amount of cracking that can come through in an overlay and reduces the amount of water that can seep through the new asphalt.
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Petromat Asphalt Overlay Saves Money
When considering a petromat asphalt overlay, it is important to keep the cost saving in mind that you get from choosing this type of repair. Because a petromat asphalt overlay utilizes so much of your existing asphalt and rock base, you don’t have to replace it like you would in a typical remove and replace scenario.
Here are some other advantages petromat overlays offer:
- Provides a waterproof barrier for sub grade protection
- Improves the fatigue resistance of a new overlay by providing a stress relieving interface
- Retards the propagation of an existing crack through the new overlay (reflective cracking)
- Extends the useful life of the overlay
- Strengthens entire pavement sections
- Can be used over milled surfaces
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Other Factors to Keep in Mind when Considering a Petromat Overlay
A petromat fabric overlay is essentially a seal-forming fabric that stops cracks from coming up and water from seeping in. That is why, when considering a petromat fabric overlay, you should never do partial fabric repairs. Your whole parking lot should be sealed with fabric otherwise the repair will be rendered useless. Petromat fabric overlays are recommended where heavy webbing is occurring throughout the parking lot. Furthermore, petromat overlays should be considered as an alternative to a remove and replacement asphalt repair scenario.
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Fabric Overlays in Southern California
Empire Parking Lot Services offers petromat overlay repairs throughout the Southern California area. Our service areas include Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Diego County, Riverside County, Ventura County, as well as San Bernardino County. If you have a petromat overlay project coming up and would like to receive a free estimate from one of our estimators feel free to give us a call today.
