Crack Sealing in West Jordan

The cheapest pavement repair there is

Here is the case for crack sealing in plain terms. Water is what kills asphalt. It gets in through a crack, reaches the base, washes out the support, and the crack becomes a pothole. Sealing the crack costs a couple dollars a foot. Fixing the pothole costs many times that.

Nothing else you can do to your pavement returns more life per dollar. Sealing does not make a faded driveway look new or rebuild a failed section. It does the one thing that prevents most asphalt failures: it keeps water out. That is why a foreman tells you to seal your cracks before almost anything else.

West Jordan's build-out is reaching crack age

West Jordan grew fast through the 1990s and 2000s, filling in neighborhoods from the Jordan River out toward the west side. A huge share of the city's driveways were poured in that window, so a lot of them are now 15 to 25 years old, the exact age when asphalt starts showing working cracks at the seams, edges, and control joints.

It is a good problem to have, because these driveways are catchable. The surface is usually still solid. Seal the cracks now and you protect that pavement for years more. Let them go and the freeze-thaw cycle turns a maintenance job into a replacement job.

Filling and sealing are different jobs

Two terms get used loosely, and the difference is worth money. Crack filling uses a cold-pour material. It is cheaper and faster and works on cracks that are not really moving. Crack sealing uses a hot rubberized material that bonds to the crack walls and flexes as the pavement expands and contracts.

In West Jordan's climate, with cold valley winters and hot dry summers, most cracks on a driveway over a decade old are working cracks. Those need the hot sealant. A cold filler in a moving crack pulls loose within a season or two, and you are back where you started.

• Crack filling: cold material, lower cost, for stable hairline cracks.
• Crack sealing: hot rubberized, flexes with the slab, for working cracks.
• Most aging West Jordan driveways have working cracks that want sealing.

Cost of crack sealing in West Jordan

Pricing is by the linear foot of crack. Around West Jordan, hot rubberized sealing typically runs about 1 to 3 dollars per linear foot, routing of wider cracks at the upper end. A residential driveway usually meets a minimum charge of roughly 200 to 400 dollars because the cost of mobilizing a crew and heating a kettle is fixed.

HOA roads, townhome lots, and commercial pavement come in below the residential per-foot rate, since more footage spreads out that fixed cost. These figures are typical ranges, not quotes. The crews we connect you with give free, no-obligation estimates.

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