Asphalt Paving and Driveway Repair in Washington Park, Denver
Wash Park is driveway country. Bungalows, Denver Squares and brick two-story houses on deep lots, most with a drive to a rear garage off the alley. Asphalt Denver replaces failed driveways, seals sound ones, and looks after the small lots on Old South Gaylord. Quotes are written and free.
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- Hot-mix asphalt, compacted right
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Washington Park sits about four miles southeast of Union Station around the 165-acre park that gives it its name. East Washington Park runs between Downing Street, Cherry Creek, I-25 and University Boulevard, and Washington Park West takes the blocks on the other side of the park. Nearly all the paving work here is residential.
The pattern repeats block after block: a deep lot, a house set forward, a single-width drive running back to a detached garage on the alley. Those drives are long for their width, they sit on old subgrade, and they take the full run of Denver freeze and thaw with no protection unless someone has kept them sealed.
Asphalt work in Washington Park
The housing is early twentieth century brick with some late nineteenth century stock on the west side, in Bungalow and Craftsman, Prairie and Italianate styles. Corner store buildings survive at old streetcar stops on the residential streets. Old South Gaylord, the 1000 block between Mississippi and Tennessee, is the neighborhood's main street and one of Denver's oldest shopping blocks, with roughly forty independent businesses and their service parking behind them off the alley.
The park covers 165 acres with two lakes, Smith and Grasmere, a lily pond, tennis courts, and the city ditch that Reinhard Schuetze planted along its route. Water in the ground is the practical point for paving. The lakes, the ditch and irrigated turf keep moisture in the subgrade on the streets nearest the park, and Front Range soils carry bentonite and other expansive clays that swell when wet and shrink as they dry. That seasonal movement is what splits long driveways down their length.
Alameda Avenue on the north, Downing and University on the flanks and I-25 on the southeast carry the traffic around the edges. Access is easy compared with the downtown neighborhoods, which keeps costs down, though the alley is still the working route to most garages. The alley pavement itself belongs to the city. The drive, the apron and the garage pad are yours, and a new or rebuilt curb cut where the drive meets the street needs a city permit.
Common jobs around Washington Park
- Removing and replacing long single-width driveways that have cracked through to the base
- Alley aprons and pads at detached garages on the deep lots
- Crack sealing and sealcoating sound drives on a two to three year cycle
- Patching the low spot where a drive meets the alley and holds water after rain
- Small business parking and service areas behind the Old South Gaylord shops
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Asphalt in Washington Park: common questions
Can my old driveway be resurfaced instead of replaced?
If the base is sound and the cracking is surface level, an overlay works and costs less. Where the cracks run in a network, the edges are crumbling or sections have dropped, an overlay just copies the failure upward. We cut a test hole and tell you which one you have.
Why do driveways here crack lengthwise?
Front Range soils carry expansive clay that swells when wet and shrinks as it dries. A long narrow drive beside irrigated lawn sits over ground that moves with the seasons, and the surface splits along the line of least resistance. Proper base preparation and keeping water off the edges slows it down.
When should a new driveway be sealed?
Not straight away. Fresh hot mix needs months to cure before a sealer goes on, so the first coat usually waits for the following season. After that, every two to three years is a sensible cycle in Denver, and crack sealing should happen before the coat goes down rather than after.
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