Sealcoating and Asphalt in Mondovi, WI

Mondovi is mostly a post-war place: 46.2 percent of the housing predates 1960 and 19.6 percent predates 1940. Drives from that period were commonly laid thin, because nobody was parking what people park now on them. Where they have held, they hold well and need nothing more than sealing. Where they have not, the failure shows up as a section that gives rather than as a crack, and that section has to be cut out rather than covered.

65.3 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.

Mondovi is a city of 2,870 people with 1,516 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.

Mondovi sits in Buffalo County on the Buffalo River, where Highways 10 and 37 meet, in valley ground rather than on the flat. It's the westernmost city we hold a page for and the ground here's Driftless: cut valleys, real grade, and drives that run downhill more often than they run level.