Asphalt paving · patching · striping · Bracken Hollow · Dole Junction · Pratt Heights · since 1998
Tonnage you can check. Prices you can read.
Tarside Paving lays drives and lots at a published lay rate over the plant’s per-ton mix price — so the invoice is arithmetic, not opinion. One ton covers about eighty square feet at two inches, and the takeoff page we hand you shows every multiplication.
Drives $4.35–5.75 / sq ft laid · infrared patches $3.10 / sq ft · striping $0.78 / lin ft · (555) 031-2216 · yard@tarsidepaving.example
The ton price behind the board moves when the plant’s Monday ticket moves, and it has moved four times in twenty-eight seasons. Travel is free inside twenty miles of the Bracken yard, and the meter never starts at your curb.
Services & rates
The price board
Laid rates around Bracken Hollow, Dole Junction and Pratt Heights. Every line already includes tack coat, edge compaction, the sweep and the driveway back at the end of the day — the board is the quote, and the quote is the invoice.
New driveway, two lifts$4.35–5.75 / sq ft
2.5 in compacted over read base, tack coat between lifts, edges hand-tamped
Mill & overlay$3.65 / sq ft
Old surface milled 1.5 in, SS-1h tack at 0.06 gal / sy, fresh 2 in wearing course
Infrared patch$3.10 / sq ft
Existing mat reheated and blended — no saw joints, no square seam; 210 sq ft minimum
Saw-cut patch, full depth$6.20 / sq ft
Failed section squared out to sound edges, base rebuilt, hot mix in two lifts
Sealcoat, two coats$0.94 / sq ft
Squeegee-applied, cracks routed to 0.5 in and hot-filled first
Line striping$0.78 / lin ft
4-in lines at 15-mil wet latex with glass beads — stalls, arrows, fire lanes
The takeoff page
Arithmetic you can audit at the kitchen table
A six-hundred-square-foot drive at two and a half inches is 125 cubic feet of mix — nine and a bit tons at 145 pounds a cubic foot, so we order ten and the plant ticket says ten. The takeoff page shows length × width × depth, the tonnage it makes, the board rate it multiplies and the total. If an invoice ever disagrees with a takeoff, the invoice is wrong — and we say so before you do.
The plant ticket rides with the invoice
Every ton you are billed for is a ton the plant weighed onto a truck with your job name on the ticket. If the plant shorted us, the shortage is our conversation with the plant — never a line on your bill.
The takeoff
Tape, slope and a base read in one visit — the length-times-width-times-depth page is written before any truck is booked.
Prep & tack
Edges cut square, failures squared out, and diluted SS-1h sprayed at 0.06 gallons a square yard so the lifts bond instead of stack.
The lay, two lifts
An inch-and-a-half binder, then a one-inch wearing course — each rolled behind the screed while it is hot enough to compact honestly.
Roll & check
Three passes, joints matched hot to hot, and hand tamping everywhere the drum cannot reach without ruining an edge.
Lines & handback
The sweep, the striping where it was ordered, cure dates on a card on your door — foot traffic tomorrow, cars by the week.
How a Tarside job runs
Five moves, Monday to Friday
The sequence has not changed since the first payload in 1998, because asphalt has not changed. What changed is the paver, the plant’s RAP percentage and the infrared box riding the second trailer — the moves are the moves.
2025 — 2026
Recent mats
Six surfaces from the last two seasons, photographed the week the lines dried. The sheen fades; the crown, the density and the edges are what the fourth winter judges.
Infrared — the blend
A heater box reworks the top two inches of the existing mat back to laying temperature, new mix is folded in, and the whole area is re-rolled — one continuous surface with no seam for water to find. The right call when the failure lives in the top of the mat and the base under it is sound.
Saw-cut — the reset
A full-depth patch for full-depth trouble: the failed area is squared out to sound edges, the base rebuilt and compacted, and hot mix laid in two lifts. It costs more than infrared because it does more — and over a failed base, infrared is paint on a broken canvas.
Skin patch — the leveler
A thin leveling course for shallow dips and birdbaths that hold water but are not yet cracking through: tacked, screeded thin and rolled flush. Cheap, fast, and honest about what it is — a way to move water off a mat that has years left in it.
Twenty-eight seasons, weighed and counted
The takeoff page said 218 tons for our association lane and the invoice said 218 tons — I have never had a paving bill I could predict to the ton before. Two lifts, hand-tamped edges, and the striping crew followed the next morning.
Their infrared box fixed a pair of alligator patches nobody else would touch without saw-cutting half the apron. No seams, no square scar, and a year later you cannot find the edge of the repair. Half the price of the tear-out quotes, too.
Church lot, 14,400 square feet, striped and open for Sunday. The board rate was the rate, the beads still catch my headlights at the entrance, and the fire lane the inspector wanted was stencilled before he asked for it.
Before the truck rolls
Fair questions
The four we get on every first call. If yours is not here, the yard line runs six to five, Monday to Saturday, and the person who answers has laid mat in your township.
How many tons is my driveway, roughly?
Eighty square feet a ton at two inches is the rule of thumb. A twelve-by-fifty drive is six hundred square feet — call it ten tons at two and a half inches with tack and waste. The takeoff page does it exactly, and the plant ticket settles it to the pound.
Infrared or saw-cut — which one do I need?
If the base is sound and the damage is in the top two inches, infrared reheats and blends at $3.10 a foot with no seam. If the failure goes through — pumping, rutting, a soft corner after every rain — it needs the saw-cut reset at $6.20, because blending over a failed base is paying twice for one repair.
When does the striping happen?
On new mat, after the cure window — usually the same week. Four-inch lines at fifteen mils wet with glass beads broadcast on, so they hold up to plows and still catch headlights. Restriping over sound paint runs the same rate, with the old layout chased and re-cut where it drifted.
How soon can a new drive be sealed?
Ninety days of cure for the first coat, then every third or fourth season. Sealing a month-old mat traps the oils that still need to escape, and sealing every year builds a film that peels — the calendar is the medicine, not the bucket.
The 2026 lay calendar books three weeks out in season · (555) 031-2216 · yard@tarsidepaving.example
Get the takeoff page before the truck rolls
Address and rough dimensions is enough to start. The takeoff visit is free, the board is the quote, and the plant ticket rides with the invoice. yard@tarsidepaving.example