Driveway Sealing - Almost Perfect

Almost Perfect provides commercial and residential asphalt and driveway sealing and maintenance services. We provide hot crack filling and seal coating at an affordable price to preserve and protect your investment. Hot crack filling can help avoid injuries and help prevent frost heaves and chunking which can destroy your driveway or parking lot if not treated. Seal coating helps to protect your asphalt from oil and gasoline products that can penetrate the asphalt and seal coating also blocks out ultra-violet rays from the sun.

Sealcoating provides resistance to elements that can soften asphalt, enhances asphalt appearance by restoring the original jet black color, and is easier to clean and maintain while extending the life of your pavement.

Sealcoating is most effective in protecting your asphalt investment. Our sealers resist water penetration and protect against cracking from oxidation and weather extremes. Sealcoat applied to asphalt pavement ultimately protects against deterioration, crumbling, and shrinkage.

Research has demonstrated that properly applied (and properly timed) sealcoat can save the owner of a property $100,000 or more — over the life of a hot mix asphalt pavement. But what does seal-coat actually do that results in this substantial savings?

In spite of its excellent adhesive and waterproofing properties, asphalt has some serious drawbacks that relate to its chemical makeup. Asphalt is a very complex mixture of thousands of chemicals with a considerable degree of un-saturation. This provides easy access to weather, salts and chemicals to attack and disintegrate the asphalts molecules. As the asphalts molecules disintegrate, the asphalt in the pavement loses much of its original properties, such as binding and waterproofing. The first visual sign of this is a progressive change in the color of asphalt pavement from rich black to brown to gray.

Furthermore, asphalt, being a byproduct of the petroleum distillation process, is easily dissolved by other products that also are derived from petroleum, such as oils, fats, grease, mineral spirits etc. When automotive oil or gasoline leak onto an asphalt pavement, they will work to easily dissolve the similar chemicals in asphalt. These problems are associated primarily with off-street pavements such as parking lots, minor streets, airport aprons or runways, service stations, and home driveways, which carry low levels of traffic.