Tar and Chip
Tar and chip paving, also called chip seal, puts a sealed stone surface over a prepared base. It suits long rural driveways, farm lanes and private roads around Cartersville.
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Road paving covers the roads a county or city does not maintain. Georgia Asphalt Pros paves private roads, subdivision and HOA streets, farm lanes and shared driveways serving several homes. Church, camp and community roads fall here too. We are based in Cartersville and work Northwest Georgia and the north side of metro Atlanta.
A road is built heavier than a driveway because it carries more traffic and heavier trucks. The road bed is graded and compacted, then the stone base goes down in layers. Hot mix is laid with our own paver and rolled while it is hot. That is the same asphalt paving work we do on driveways and lots, scaled up for a road.
Tell us about the job and where it is. We will call or text you back.
A private road is not part of the county road system. Bartow County's development regulations make a private subdivision print that on the plat and on every deed. The wording puts upkeep of the streets on the homeowners through their homeowners association.
Older roads work the same way. Georgia law on private ways puts the road on the person who applied for it. Whoever takes title after them keeps it open and in repair. Your plat, your deed and any road maintenance agreement name who that is.
That matters before paving, because the owners decide together. Call or text (706) 844-2123 and we come out, look at the road and give an estimate. Some roads get paved in one go. Others get done a section at a time, as the owners agree on it.
Cartersville averages about 48 inches of rain a year. The clay under a road gets slick and rutted when it is soaked, and soft ground moves. So the road bed gets graded and compacted before any stone goes down. Then the base goes in layers, and we shape a crown so water sheds to the ditches.
Water is what takes a private road apart. Ditches have to stay open so runoff leaves the road instead of sitting on it. Bartow County will not let a street be built flatter than a 1.5 percent grade, so water keeps moving. We set drain pipe under the road where a crossing needs one.
Road sections are built thicker than an asphalt driveway section. Bartow County's rules put a street in a new development on at least six inches of aggregate base. Those rules put at least two inches of B mix under an inch and a half of E mix. Your estimate spells out the thickness, the base work and the square footage for your road.
A long, low traffic road does not always need hot mix. Georgia DOT names bituminous surface treatment as a surface for low volume roads such as subdivision streets. That is tar and chip paving, and it gives a farm lane or a camp road a country road surface. Hot mix is the heavier choice where trucks run every day.
Grade decides a lot on these roads. Gravel washes down a hill every time it rains hard, and that is often what starts a paving job. Bartow County caps street grades in a new development at 15 percent. On a steep road the drainage work matters more than the asphalt does.
Access is the other reason roads get paved. A fire truck or a delivery truck needs room to get in and turn around. Georgia's fire code holds fire apparatus access roads to 10 percent grade, which is tighter than the county's street limit. Your fire marshal says which rules reach your road, so ask before the work starts.
Site visits and estimates across Northwest Georgia and the north side of metro Atlanta, about 50 miles around Cartersville.
(706) 844-2123From the first call to the day you can drive on it, here is how it goes.
Call or text (706) 844-2123, or send the form on this site. Tell us what you have and what you want paved.
We come to the property, look at the site and measure it. Then you get an estimate with the square footage, the base work and the asphalt thickness.
We shape the site so water runs off it. Stone base goes down and gets compacted in layers, or failed pavement comes out first.
Hot mix asphalt goes down with our paver and gets rolled while it is hot. Edges are cut clean and tie-ins are kept flush.
We tell you how long to stay off the new pavement and how to look after it. Where a lot calls for it, we schedule the striping or the sealcoat.
Common questions about road paving across Northwest Georgia and the north side of metro Atlanta, about 50 miles around Cartersville. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Tar and chip paving, also called chip seal, puts a sealed stone surface over a prepared base. It suits long rural driveways, farm lanes and private roads around Cartersville.
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We pave new asphalt driveways, pave over gravel drives and replace driveways that have given out. The site is graded for drainage, the stone base is compacted, then hot mix asphalt is laid and rolled.
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We repair potholes, failed patches, washed out edges and cracks in asphalt driveways, private roads and parking lots. The broken asphalt comes out, the base under it is rebuilt, then hot mix goes in and gets rolled.
Learn MoreThe site gets graded for drainage, then stone base goes down and is compacted in layers. Hot mix asphalt only goes on top of work that is already solid.
We run our own paver, rollers, dump trucks and a track loader. The asphalt gets laid and rolled while it is hot.
Driveways, parking lots, farm lanes and private roads all get paved the same way. We work for homeowners, businesses, churches, HOAs and private road owners.
We work Northwest Georgia and the north side of metro Atlanta, about 50 miles around. Larger paving projects go farther out.
Georgia Asphalt Pros is an asphalt paving company based in Cartersville. Call or text (706) 844-2123, or send the form and we will come look at the site.
Tell us about the job and where it is. We will call or text you back.
