Adding protection and curb appeal to your investment.
Adding a protective seal coat improves appearance, protects from water and oxidation, and gives you a fresh clean surface.
The chip seal process
- Cleaning: All surfaces are thoroughly swept and cleaned for complete adhesion.
- Application: The hot oil emulsion is sprayed onto the surface use computerized rate of control technology. Immediately following the emulsion application, the aggregate material is applied evenly using computerized chip spreaders to ensure a proper application rate. The aggregate is then rolled into the oil with pneumatic rubber tire rollers.
- Cleanup: After the surface has properly cured and set, any excess chips are swept from the area. The curing and cleanup phase can vary. State highways and county roads, when using hot polymerized oils, can be swept the day following the application. Highly traveled municipal arterial streets can be swept within a couple of days of application. Residential streets are swept a few weeks following application, and parking lots are typically swept four to eight weeks following the chip seal process. Allied crews have resurfaced hundreds of city streets each year without shutting them down.
All chip seal applications experience tracking of the excess aggregate and bleeding of the oil. Chip seal areas are considered to be a “live” surface and are self-healing. Areas that bleed will recover when the temperature become cooler. Most of the aggregate tracking will be resolved after the pickup sweep. Some partially-embedded aggregate will continue to work loose after the initial sweep. These partially embedded rocks will work their way out of the chip seal in the fall and winter months. This excess aggregate can be cleaned up with an additional sweeping in the Spring. Loosening aggregate can and will take place throughout the life of the chip seal.
