Paving · sealcoating · Stellworth & the lake towns
A driveway is a machine with one job — shed water.
Rovnak Paving & Seal lays, overlays and seals drives across Stellworth the way the first Rovnak did in 1979: two compacted lifts, tack coat between them, edges tamped by hand, and a crown cut so water leaves instead of pooling. Third generation, same standard.
Services
The five trades
01
New driveways — $4.25–5.90 / sq ft
2.5 in of hot mix in two compacted lifts over prepared base, tack coat between them, edges hand-tamped. The crown is cut at two percent so spring melt leaves the drive instead of sitting on it.
02
Mill & overlay — $3.60 / sq ft
The old surface milled 1.5 in, a fresh 2 in mat laid on tack, transitions ground flush at the garage and the street. For drives whose base is sound but whose surface has given up.
03
Sealcoating — $0.95 / sq ft
Two squeegee-applied coats, never one thick spray, with cracks routed and hot-rubber filled first. Every third or fourth season keeps a mat alive for decades; the drive tells you when.
04
Crack routing & fill — $2.60 / lin ft
Cracks routed to a half inch, blown clean, and sealed hot and recessed below the surface — so the seal survives the snowblower and the plow, not just the summer.
05
Millings drives & lanes — $1.85 / sq ft
Compacted recycled millings for barn lanes, long rural drives and shop floors: not finished pavement, but dry, firm and a quarter the price of hot mix. Bladed and rolled in two lifts, same as the real thing.
Three generations, counted
The Rovnak rule
Why the family still runs the roller
Grandfather Rovnak laid his first drive in 1979 and inspected his last one at seventy-one, from the passenger seat, with the window down. The third generation prices the same way he did: measure in person, write the number from the card, and let a drive that drains be the advertising budget. It has kept the yard full for forty-six years.
The fixed number
The estimate is written from the rate card above and it does not move. If the base surprises us, you hear about it before we rebuild it, with the price change in writing — never on the invoice after the crew has gone.
Our lane is 900 feet of clay that ate two gravel trucks a decade. Rovnak laid compacted millings in two lifts, bladed a crown down the middle, and for six years now the worst month of the year has left it exactly as they finished it. The quote they wrote is the invoice I paid.
The five we always get
Straight answers
If yours is not here, the yard line at the bottom of the page runs seven to five — and the person who answers has laid asphalt in your neighbourhood.
How thick should a driveway actually be?
2.5 inches of compacted mix over a sound base for residential traffic — laid as two lifts, a 1.5-in binder and a 1-in wearing course. Anything sold as a single 3-inch mat is one lift with a bigger number: it compacts loosely at the bottom and cracks on schedule.
Why two lifts instead of one?
Because compaction is physics. A roller achieves 95% plus density through about an inch and a half of hot mix per pass; ask it to compact three inches at once and the bottom of the mat stays loose forever. Two lifts means two surfaces the roller can actually finish.
How often should a drive be sealed?
First coat about ninety days after the mat goes down, then every third or fourth season. A drive sealed on that rhythm outlasts two unsealed ones; sealing every year just builds up a film that tracks and peels.
Can you pave over the drive that is there?
If the base is sound and the failures are surface-deep, mill and overlay at $3.60 a foot is the honest fix. If the old base is pumping or holding water, overlaying it is paying twice for one driveway — we tell you which one you have at the measure.
What is a millings drive?
Recycled asphalt, bladed and rolled in two compacted lifts at $1.85 a foot. It is not finished pavement — no crisp edge, no seal — but for barn lanes and long rural drives it is dry, firm and a quarter the price of hot mix, and our lane customers are our best references.
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Get the Rovnak quote
Address and the length of the drive is enough to start. A Rovnak measures it in person, reads the base and the fall, and writes the estimate from the rate card above — fixed, on paper, before any equipment is booked. tom@rovnakpaving.example