Sealcoating and Asphalt in Augusta, WI

About a third of Augusta predates the Second World War: 33.7 percent was up before 1940 and 53 percent before 1960. Drives on stock that old tend to be narrow, often steep where they meet the road, and they take more hand cutting than a spray job on a modern subdivision. Crack filling is frequently the whole job rather than a step in one, because hot rubber into everything that has opened up will buy years on a surface that is otherwise sound.

76.9 percent detached houses, which for this area is a meaningful share of something else: duplexes, small apartment buildings, and the parking that goes with them. Those surfaces are quoted like small commercial lots rather than like driveways, and the bid says which areas get worked so a manager can tell residents what to expect.

Augusta is a city of 1,495 people with 549 homes in it, which is enough that the residential and commercial work here are genuinely different conversations. Driveways are one trade. Lots with striping, storm structures and truck loading in them are another, and they get walked and priced as such rather than quoted by the square foot off a map.

Augusta sits in southeastern Eau Claire County where Highway 12 runs east and Highway 27 crosses it, about ten miles north of the interstate. Bridge Creek and Diamond Valley Creek run through town, both trout water, which is a nicer way of saying there's more groundwater under this town than under most.