Sealcoating and Asphalt in Wheeler, WI

30.7 percent of the housing in Wheeler went up before 1940, and 42.3 percent of it predates 1960. That is old even for this part of Wisconsin, and it changes what a driveway is. A surface that old is normally thin original construction over ground nobody engineered, and a good number have been resurfaced once already. Some of those seal beautifully. Others have a base that was never really built, and no amount of sealer fixes that. Telling the two apart is the whole job here.

Only 52.6 percent of the housing here is detached, which is low for this part of the state and means shared parking is a real part of the picture. Multi-unit surfaces take more vehicles than a drive does, wear at the entrances and the aisles rather than in the middle, and want striping thought about at the same time as sealing rather than afterwards.

Wheeler is a village of 327 people and 137 homes, which is the size where a street grid and open country meet inside the same few blocks. That produces two different jobs. In the village the drives are short, close together and often share access with a neighbor. A mile out they run to a town road and are measured rather than eyeballed. Neither is priced like the other.