Asphalt Repair in Denver, CO
Repair work on driveways, parking lots and private roads across Denver and the surrounding metro area. Crack sealing, pothole repair, saw-cut and infrared patching, edge repair, and full-depth removal and replacement where the base has gone. We tell you which one your pavement needs and what it buys you.
- Free written estimates
- Licensed and insured crews
- Hot-mix asphalt, compacted right
- Clean job sites
Asphalt repair covers everything between a crack you can seal and a section you have to dig out. Asphalt Denver repairs residential driveways, HOA drives, commercial lots and private roads across Denver and the surrounding metro area.
The question on every repair is whether the problem is on the surface or underneath it. A clean single crack, some raveling, or a shallow depression is surface work. Alligator cracking, a pothole that reopens every spring, or an area that flexes under a loaded truck means the base or the subgrade has failed, and patching the top of that buys you a season.
We will say which one you have. We will also say when the honest answer is that repair money is being spent on pavement that needs replacing.
What the work covers
- Hot-pour rubberized crack sealing on cracks from roughly a quarter inch wide
- Pothole repair, cut square and filled with hot-mix when the season allows
- Saw-cut full-depth patches taken down through the base
- Infrared patching that blends the repair into the surrounding mat with no cold seam
- Base repair: dig out, replace and compact aggregate before new asphalt goes on
- Edge and shoulder repair where the pavement is crumbling at the perimeter
- Ponding correction, by patching to grade or milling the low area out
- Speed bump, apron, valley pan and utility trench repairs
When you need it
- Cracks wide enough to hold a pencil, or a network of cracks in a block pattern
- A pothole that has been cold-patched more than once
- Surface that feels spongy or flexes when a loaded vehicle rolls across it
- Loose stone coming off the surface and collecting along the edges
- Standing water more than a day after rain
- Sunken sections around drains and valley pans, or along an old utility cut
How the job is done
- 01
Look at the failure, not just the hole
We check the pavement around it, where the water goes, and what the base is doing. A pothole in the middle of sound pavement is a different job to one sitting in a soft area, even though they look identical from the car.
- 02
Mark the repair area
Repairs get squared off and extended past the visible damage into sound material. Cutting to the edge of the crumbling leaves you a new weak edge that fails next winter.
- 03
Cut and remove
Saw cuts give a clean vertical face. Material comes out full depth where the base is the problem, or two inches down where only the surface has gone.
- 04
Rebuild the base
Where the base is wet or contaminated it gets excavated, replaced with clean aggregate and compacted in lifts before anything is placed over it.
- 05
Place and compact
Tack coat on every vertical face, hot-mix placed in lifts and rolled hot. We use infrared where the repair should weld into the existing mat rather than sit next to it behind a cold seam.
- 06
Seal the joint
Repair perimeters get sealed so water cannot run straight down the new joint, which is where most patches begin to fail.
Asphalt Repair in Denver
Almost every asphalt failure in Denver starts with water and finishes with frost. A crack lets water into the base, the temperature drops overnight, the water freezes and expands, and the crack opens wider. Repeat that through October, and again through March, and a hairline becomes a pothole inside two seasons. That is why we chase cracks early here, and why the repair calendar in Denver does not look like the one in Phoenix.
Then there is the clay. Much of the metro sits on expansive claystone that swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries out, and the Colorado Geological Survey ranks it as the most damaging geologic hazard in Colorado. Pavement over swelling clay moves as the moisture moves. A repair that does not deal with the water is a repair you will pay for twice.
What it costs
HomeGuide put asphalt patching at $2 to $5 per square foot, saw-cut repairs at $4 to $12, infrared at $2 to $6, crack filling at $0.50 to $3.00 per linear foot, and a pothole at $100 to $400, with a typical asphalt driveway repair landing between $250 and $800. National figures, as of 2026. Small repairs carry a minimum charge, so batching several into one visit costs less than calling a crew out three times.
Why work with us
- We will tell you when a repair is not worth doing, and what replacement would cost instead
- Repairs cut square and taken past the damage, never feathered over the top of it
- Hot-mix whenever the season allows, cold patch only as a stopgap that we name as one
- Free written estimates listing each repair area and its square footage
- Licensed and insured, and the spoil leaves with us
Related services
Areas we cover for asphalt repair
Not listed? We cover Denver and the surrounding metro area. See every area we work in.
Asphalt Repair questions
Can you repair asphalt in winter?
Some of it. Crack sealing works in cold weather and is often better then, because cracks sit at their widest. Hot-mix patching needs an open plant and a surface warm enough to compact, so between about November and March we use cold patch or infrared as a holding repair and come back in spring.
What is infrared patching?
A heater panel warms the existing asphalt in place until it can be raked and re-compacted, with a little new mix and rejuvenator worked in. The repair fuses to the pavement around it instead of leaving a cold seam, and that seam is the usual place a patch starts to let go.
How long will a patch last?
A full-depth saw-cut patch on a sound base can last as long as the pavement around it. A surface patch over a failing base gets you a season or two. Cold patch in a pothole in February gets you to spring. The base condition decides it, not the material.
Should I repair or replace?
A rough guide: if under about 30 percent of the surface is damaged, the base is sound and the pavement is less than 15 to 20 years old, repair and resurface. Past that, or where water is ponding and the base has gone, full-depth replacement costs less across ten years.
Do you handle urgent repairs?
We get to trip hazards, blown-out potholes at entrances and failures blocking a drive aisle as fast as a crew is free. A same-day fix in bad weather is usually a temporary cold patch, marked as temporary in the estimate, with the permanent repair booked for when conditions allow.
Will the repair match the rest of the pavement?
Not at first. New asphalt is black and the pavement around it is grey, so a patch is visible for six to twelve months while it weathers in. Sealcoating the whole surface after the repairs cure is what evens the color out, and it is worth waiting for.
Get a free asphalt repair estimate
Tell us about the pavement and we will come back with a free written estimate.