A-1 Asphalt Paving & Seal Coating

Four generations of one family have run A-1 Asphalt Paving & Seal Coating, a paving company in Acworth, Georgia. The business is locally owned, licensed and insured, reports more than 35 years of experience, and backs its work with a one-year guarantee. It serves both homeowners and commercial properties.

Commercial work includes new parking lots built with attention to grading and drainage, full tear-out and repaving of failed lots, and resurfacing, in which the top layer is milled away and replaced with hot mix asphalt on lots whose base is still solid. The company also paves and resurfaces roads for HOA communities and private properties. Residential customers can have new driveways installed, existing ones extended or replaced, or older driveways resurfaced rather than torn out. Basketball courts are among the other surfaces it lists.

The company also offers two lower-cost alternatives to standard paving. Tar and chip, also called chip seal, is available for long rural driveways, roads and parking lots. Recycled asphalt millings are delivered by the truckload for private roads and driveways, and the company can roll and seal the material once it is in place and help estimate how many tons a job will need.

For repairs, the preferred method is cutting out damaged pavement and patching with hot mix, which depends on warm weather and on asphalt plants being open. Parking lot patching, driveway repair, road maintenance and sealcoating are also offered, and estimates are done on site at no charge.