State pavement directory
The Cascade crest splits Washington into two pavement problems that share almost nothing. West of the mountains, the enemy is water: months of rain, saturated subgrade, moss on shaded pavement, and a construction season limited by drying rather than by cold. East of the crest, it is temperature: hot dry summers, cold winters, real freeze-thaw, and a shorter paving window for entirely different reasons.
This page lists pavement contractors serving Washington cities and covers the state-level context that matters: contractor registration through Labor and Industries, the state's unusually well-developed stormwater framework, and the practical scheduling and drainage decisions that follow from which side of the mountains a property sits on.
Before you hire: The Pavement Directory does not guarantee contractor performance, pricing, licensing, insurance, or availability. Business information may be submitted by contractors or gathered from public sources and should be independently verified before hiring. Always confirm licensing, insurance, references, scope of work, and written contract terms.
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Walla Walla, Washington
A & B Asphalt is a reputable asphalt company based in Walla Walla, WA, specializing in providing professional asphalt paving services to residential and commercial clients. With a focus on quality workmanship and customer satisfaction, A & B Asphalt offers a range of asphalt solutions, including driveway paving, parking lot construction, and asphalt repairs.
Yelm, Washington
The company offers asphalt paving, parking lot construction, seal coating, striping, and asphalt repair services. They provide residential driveway and walkway installation as well as complete road and parking lot construction. Services include preventative and restorative asphalt maintenance and ADA upgrades.
Burien, Washington
Paving contractor in Burien, WA offering Asphalt Paving, Sealcoating, Parking Lot Striping For over 20 years, Superior Asphalt Maintenance has provided the highest level of asphalt contracting services in asphalt paving, sealing, striping, curbing, and repairs to all of Western Washington. We have worked with both commercial and residential clients throughout the years.
Lynnwood, Washington
Facility service solutions. Transblue helps operations professionals like you streamline facility management and maintenance by providing expert services and innovative solutions—so you can focus on expanding your business. Offering pavement maintenace and snow removal to companies such as Costco.
Puyallup, Washington
The company offers asphalt services including driveways, roadways, patching, repairs, parking lots, new pavement, crack filling, and milling. Concrete services include ADA ramps, driveways, sidewalks, vertical curb, flat work, road panels, curb and gutter, and demo and prep. Additional services include saw cutting, site prep, grinding, trucking, concrete delivery, hydro excavation, trenching, and bin disposal. The company maintains relationships with utility providers and commercial property owners throughout the region.
Spokane Valley, Washington
Black Diamond Asphalt Paving LLC is a family-owned paving company based in Spokane Valley, WA, offering new asphalt installation, repairs, resurfacing, and sealcoating for driveways, patios, private roads, and parking lots. Founded in 2014, the company serves residential and commercial customers across Spokane, Stevens, and Lincoln Counties in Washington, as well as Kootenai and Bonner Counties in Idaho. It also provides grading and trucking/hauling services to support paving projects.
Ellensburg, Washington
Central Paving was founded in 2009 as Central Sealcoat by the Grear brothers in Ellensburg, Washington. The company serves commercial, industrial, residential, and public works projects across central Washington. Central Paving is fully licensed, bonded, and insured in Washington State.
Moses Lake, Washington
Central Washington Asphalt is a family-owned and operated paving contractor headquartered in Moses Lake, Washington, in operation since 1982. The company performs asphalt paving and chip seal (BST) work ranging from WSDOT highway projects to subdivisions and private driveways. It is affiliated with a Spokane-area operation, Shamrock Paving, and a sister concrete readymix company, AAA Concrete. Central Washington Asphalt is associated with industry groups including NAPA, WAPA, and AGC.
Edgewood, Washington
The family-owned company has operated since 1988 and serves the greater Puget Sound, Central, Eastern, and Southwest Washington regions. Services include residential and commercial paving, sealcoating, striping, patch and repair work, grading with crushed rock and gravel, overlays, water berms, resurfacing, speed bumps, and ramps. The company operates offices in Edgewood and Ocean Shores, Washington.
Covington, Washington
The company offers asphalt paving for driveways, parking lots, and site development projects. Services include residential paving, commercial paving, site development, and asphalt grinding. The website states the company has over fifty years of experience and received Best of Kent Awards in 2013 and 2014.
Gig Harbor, Washington
Paving contractor in Gig Harbor, WA offering Asphalt Paving.
Seattle, Washington
Oasis Asphalt Paving provides asphalt paving, patching, sealcoating, striping, and parking lot installation and repair for residential and commercial properties in Seattle, Washington. The company also serves nearby communities including Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Everett, Tacoma, and Renton. It states it is licensed and insured and offers a 3-year warranty on new installations.
Battle Ground, Washington
The company has been in operation for more than 30 years serving educational, municipal, and industrial/commercial markets throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Services include paving, sealcoating, concrete work, drainage, new construction, and pavement management using environmentally friendly products. The company states it backs all work with a guarantee and provides warranty service.
Pasco, Washington
Paving contractor in Pasco, WA offering Asphalt Paving, Concrete Repair, Commercial Paving.
Spokane Valley, Washington
Stateline Paving & Maintenance, LLC is a locally owned asphalt contractor based in Spokane Valley, Washington, serving both residential and commercial clients throughout the greater Spokane and North Idaho region. Their work includes asphalt resurfacing, removal and replacement, milling, paving and patching, seal coating, and crack sealing, along with excavation, speed bump installation, and winter pothole repair. The company also offers snow removal services and works on parking lots, roads, private drives, and driveways for both commercial/industrial and residential properties.
Everett, Washington
Valley Asphalt Solutions is an asphalt paving contractor based in Everett, Washington, offering services such as driveway and parking lot paving, patching, repair, sealcoating, striping, and slurry coating. The company works with both residential and commercial clients, serving Everett and surrounding areas including Marysville, Mukilteo, Lynnwood, Bothell, Snohomish, and Lake Stevens. The site states the business is licensed and insured, though specific license numbers, founding year, and years in operation are not disclosed.
Washington runs two separate pavement climates, and the state's stormwater requirements are among the more consequential in the country for parking lot work.
Regional differences
Washington does not have one climate or one soil profile, and pavement that performs well in one part of the state can fail early a few hours away. These are the divisions that matter most when scoping paving, repair, or maintenance work.
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Environmental stress
Subgrade conditions
Common distress
What it means for the work
Field conditions
Spongy areas, rapid pothole formation, and alligator cracking that appears through the wet season in a lot whose traffic has not changed.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: If failures return to the same areas each winter, the base is holding water. Confirm the base is actually dry before agreeing to another overlay over it.
Green growth spreading across shaded pavement, especially along north-facing edges and under tree canopy, holding moisture against the surface and making it slick.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: Moss is mostly a maintenance and slip-safety issue, but where it is growing out of cracks it is a sign water is sitting in the pavement structure — that part is worth a closer look.
Potholes and edge break-up forming over a few weeks in late winter and early spring around Spokane, Yakima, and the Columbia Basin.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: Damage that repeats in the same areas every spring points to drainage or base material rather than to the winter itself.
Permeable pavement that no longer drains — water ponding on a surface designed to let it through — usually because the void structure has filled with fines.
Likely causes
When to get it looked at: If permeable pavement was installed to satisfy a stormwater requirement, its failure may be a compliance problem as well as a maintenance one. Find out what the original approval obligated you to do.
Deep wheel paths and shoving at container terminals, distribution centers, and their approach routes around Puget Sound and along I-5.
Likely causes
Timing
Treat this as a planning aid, not a rule. Whether a given treatment can actually be placed on a given day depends on product requirements, surface and nighttime temperatures, the rain forecast, humidity, plant availability, the project specification, and the contractor’s means and methods.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Walk the property during rain and record where water stands, where it runs, and which inlets back up.
Regional exception: Eastern Washington is in a freeze-thaw winter rather than a rain-driven one; crack sealing matters more there before this period begins.
Work often suited to this window
Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Map what the wet season damaged and separate surface distress from base failure before pricing repairs.
Work often suited to this window
Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Look for rutting and structural distress in truck areas while pavement is warm, and confirm permeable surfaces still infiltrate.
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Scheduling risks
Inspect for: Confirm cracks are sealed and drainage is clear before the wet season begins — this is the highest-leverage week of the year on the west side.
Verification
Washington requires construction contractors to be registered with the Department of Labor and Industries, as either a general or specialty contractor, with a surety bond and liability insurance on file. Registration is straightforward to verify through L&I's Verify a Contractor tool, which shows registration status, bond and insurance information, the registration history, and whether there are lawsuits recorded against the bond.
That verification tool is genuinely informative and takes under a minute. Check the registration status, confirm the bond and insurance are current, and look at how long the registration has been in place — a very recent registration for a company claiming decades of experience is worth asking about.
L&I also enforces prevailing wage on public works, and public projects carry additional requirements including responsible bidder criteria. Those rules apply to school, city, and other public properties rather than to a private commercial lot.
Confirm the business entity through the Secretary of State, verify insurance directly with the carrier for your project dates, and check whether the city requires its own permits for the work — larger site projects in Washington frequently do because of stormwater review.
L&I registration establishes bonding and insurance, not competence with saturated subgrade, permeable systems, or the stormwater review your project may need.
Ask for a certificate of insurance sent directly from the carrier or agent rather than a copy forwarded by the contractor, confirm the general liability and workers’ compensation coverage is active on the dates of your work, and ask to be named as certificate holder so you are notified if the policy lapses.
Licensing requirements can turn on project value, scope of work, property location, and whether the job is public or private. City and county rules may add registration, permitting, or bonding requirements beyond anything required at the state level. Verify current requirements with the agency directly before contracting.
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Permitting
Washington State Department of Ecology
Washington's Department of Ecology administers construction stormwater permitting and publishes the stormwater management manuals that most local jurisdictions adopt or mirror. Construction that disturbs enough ground generally requires coverage under the construction stormwater general permit, along with erosion and sediment controls and a site-specific plan.
The part that most affects parking lots is post-construction. Projects that create or replace impervious surface can trigger runoff treatment and flow control requirements under the applicable manual, and the thresholds and the way replaced surface is counted are set by the local jurisdiction implementing the manual. A full lot reconstruction and a mill-and-overlay of the same lot can land on opposite sides of that line, which is why the question is worth asking during design rather than after.
Permeable pavement, bioretention, and other low impact development approaches are used more widely in Washington than in most states, often to satisfy those requirements. They come with maintenance obligations — vacuum sweeping for permeable surfaces, for instance — and those obligations may have been recorded as conditions of the original approval.
Thresholds and calculations are implemented locally and differ between Washington jurisdictions. Confirm with the city or county before design, and check whether prior approvals imposed ongoing maintenance conditions on your site.
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Plain English
| Term | What it means on a Washington project |
|---|---|
| Hot mix asphalt (HMA) | The standard plant-produced asphalt mixture. Washington specifications reference HMA by class and binder grade, and local suppliers use the same vocabulary. |
| Crushed surfacing base course (CSBC) | The crushed rock base layer beneath the asphalt, referenced by that name on Washington plans and proposals. On saturated west-side sites, how well it drains matters as much as how thick it is. |
| Permeable pavement | Pavement designed to let water pass through into a storage layer below. In Washington it is often installed to satisfy a stormwater requirement, which means it carries recorded maintenance obligations, not just a maintenance recommendation. |
| Bioretention / rain garden | Engineered landscaped areas that treat and infiltrate runoff. Common alongside Washington parking lots, and easily damaged by construction traffic or by sediment during repaving. |
| Flow control | Managing the rate and duration of runoff leaving a site, not just its volume. It is a distinctly Washington emphasis, driven by stream protection, and it affects what a large lot project has to include. |
| Chip seal / bituminous surface treatment (BST) | An asphalt binder application covered with aggregate, common on eastern Washington county roads and large private roads. It is a surface treatment, not a structural repair. |
State transportation specifications can provide useful regional terminology and material references, but they do not automatically govern private parking-lot or driveway projects unless incorporated into the contract or required by the applicable jurisdiction.
More definitions are in the pavement glossary.
Property types
Seattle, Tacoma, and I-5 corridor freight sites carry very heavy channelized loads, often on fill with limited bearing capacity, making base design the controlling decision.
Eastside campuses combine appearance expectations with extensive low impact development features that constrain how and when pavement work can be done.
Yakima and Columbia Basin operations concentrate heavy seasonal truck and equipment loads, with irrigation changing subgrade moisture around the pavement.
Shaded private drives stay damp for months, so moss, drainage, and base moisture drive the maintenance program more than traffic does.
Snow operations, plow damage, and a short construction season shift priorities toward durable markings and meltwater routing.
Before you sign
Not because of cold — western Washington sees relatively little freeze-thaw. The problem is sustained moisture. Months of rain with little drying keep the base layer saturated, and a saturated base has far less strength, so ordinary traffic starts producing alligator cracking and potholes. That is why drainage correction and base moisture usually matter more here than surface specification, and why resurfacing over a wet base tends to fail within a season or two.
Eastern Washington has hot dry summers and genuinely cold winters with real freeze-thaw cycling, which western Washington largely lacks. That flips the priorities: crack sealing before winter has substantial value around Spokane, Yakima, and the Columbia Basin because it keeps water out of a structure that will freeze, while on the west side the same effort is aimed at keeping a persistently wet structure from staying wet. Summer UV also ages east-side pavement faster.
Yes. Contractors must be registered with the Department of Labor and Industries as either general or specialty contractors, with a surety bond and liability insurance on file. L&I's Verify a Contractor tool shows registration status, bond and insurance details, registration history, and any lawsuits against the bond. It takes under a minute and is worth doing on every proposal, not just unfamiliar ones.
It can. Washington's stormwater framework ties treatment and flow control requirements to how much impervious surface a project creates or replaces, and the thresholds and counting rules are implemented by the local jurisdiction using Ecology's manuals. A full reconstruction and a mill-and-overlay of the same lot can fall on opposite sides of that line. Ask the city or county during design rather than discovering it when permits are pulled.
Persistent shade plus a long wet season gives moss what it needs, and evergreen canopy over Washington parking lots supplies both. Mostly it is a maintenance and slip-safety issue rather than a structural one. But moss growing out of cracks indicates water is sitting in the pavement structure, and that part is worth looking into. Trimming back overhanging vegetation to let pavement dry does more good than repeated removal alone.
Yes, and it is more consequential in Washington than most places. Permeable pavement works by letting water through its void structure, and those voids gradually fill with fines and organic debris unless the surface is vacuum swept on a schedule. Once it stops infiltrating, it is a normal impervious surface that happens to be more expensive. If it was installed to satisfy a stormwater requirement, the maintenance may have been a recorded condition of the approval — worth checking what your site's original permit obligated.
West of the Cascades, the reliable window is the dry summer stretch, and it is genuinely short — scheduling, not price, is often the binding constraint. East of the Cascades the season is limited at the other end by winter cold rather than by rain. Mountain and pass properties have the shortest window of all. On any given day, product requirements, surface temperature, and whether the pavement can be dry are what actually govern.
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State and local licensing rules vary, and Washington appears in the national comparison of commercial and residential paving-contractor requirements. Review the national paving-contractor licensing comparison, then verify current requirements with the applicable licensing authority.
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Property-owner guide
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Common causes of parking lot drainage problems, why they accelerate pavement damage, and what property owners should ask contractors before a fix.
Property-owner guide
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What alligator cracking is, what causes it, whether it can be patched or needs full-depth repair, and why it usually points to a failing base.
Property-owner guide
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How to choose a drainage and sitework contractor: one who diagnoses the cause of water problems and knows when an engineer is needed.
Property-owner guide
Updated July 11, 2026
How to build a parking lot maintenance plan: inspecting condition, setting service cycles, prioritizing repairs, and budgeting over multiple years.
Official sources
Contractor licensing
L&I Verify a ContractorCheck a Washington contractor's registration, bond, insurance, and any lawsuits against the bond.
Business registration
Washington Secretary of State corporations searchConfirm the contracting entity is registered and active in Washington.
Environmental
Department of Ecology stormwater programConstruction stormwater permitting and the stormwater management manuals local jurisdictions apply.
Transportation
Washington State Department of TransportationState specifications and materials terminology used by Washington suppliers.
Consumer protection
Washington Attorney General consumer protectionWhere to file a complaint about a contractor or business practice.
This page summarizes publicly available information for general education. It is not legal, engineering, or code-compliance advice, and requirements change. Confirm anything that affects your project with the agency with jurisdiction over the property.
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