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Asphalt Paving in Baldwin

Asphalt Paving in Baldwin, Wisconsin.

Lot paving, overlays and tear-out-and-replace for commercial properties in Baldwin. Base graded, compacted and drained before any mix goes down.

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About 50 minutes west of Eau Claire on I-94. The estimate is free.

A freshly paved asphalt lot in deep black, running up to a white barn and silo.
4.7 Google ratingFrom 21 reviews
6-12 mo Before first sealNew asphalt has to cure
15-20 yrs Well-built drivewayIf it gets sealed

Working in Baldwin

TID No. 7 is 258 acres at the south end of the village, created to bring industrial and commercial development in, and the I-94 Industrial Park and Baldwin East are the two parks the village markets to builders. An apartment complex is going up on Gracie Drive next to the interstate. A new lot goes down on a graded, compacted, drained base or it doesn't go down at all, because the base decides how long the surface lasts. On a lot that's already there the choice is overlay or tear-out, and it comes down to whether that base is still sound.

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A large freshly paved asphalt lot curving around a landscaped island in front of a low institutional building
A lot repaved, edge to edge
A freshly paved asphalt driveway running up to a three-bay garage, caution tape across the street end
A driveway repaved and taped off to cure

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Overlay or tear out and replace?

An overlay is new asphalt laid over the old surface. It's roughly half the cost of a replacement, it goes down in a day, and it's the right answer when the existing base is sound and the surface has simply worn out. It's the wrong answer when the base has failed, because an overlay follows the shape of what's underneath. Lay one over a surface that's cracked into squares and those cracks come through the new mat within two or three years, and the overlay only delayed the replacement. That conversation is worth having before the quote, not after.

What Decides the Price in Baldwin

Asphalt tracks the oil market, so a number from last season is not a number for this one. Every job here is measured on site and the number is fixed before work starts.

Overlay

Per square foot

Measured on site

  • Existing base sound, surface worn out
  • Overlay or full replacement, priced after the base is checked

Tear out and replace

Per square foot

Measured on site

  • Old surface out, base rebuilt, new mat laid and rolled

Gravel to asphalt

Per square foot

Measured on site

  • Common out in the townships, where drives are long
  • Grading and drainage are most of the work and most of the cost

The setup on a long rural drive is spread over more area than on a short town one. If you've been told a long drive is prohibitive, it's worth a second number.

How the Work Goes in Baldwin

The base is the part you never see and the part that decides everything.

Work out where the water goes

Before anything else. Grade and drainage decide the lifespan, and they're the one thing that can't be fixed later without starting again.

Remove, or prepare what stays

Full replacement means the old surface comes out. An overlay means the existing surface is cleaned, failed areas cut out and patched, and the edges prepared.

Base, graded and compacted

Compacted in lifts to the right depth for what will drive on it. A driveway and a lot that takes delivery trucks need different bases, and building both the same way is how one of them fails early.

Lay and roll

Hot mix laid to the design thickness and rolled while it's hot. Compaction is time-limited, which is why paving is a day that runs to the weather.

Tell you when to seal it

Not this year. New asphalt needs six to twelve months to cure before its first seal, and sealing too early traps the oils and does more harm than leaving it alone.

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Questions We Get in Baldwin

What Baldwin calls us about, answered straight.

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Baldwin's 50 minutes out. Do you come this far for a lot?
For commercial lots, yes. It's about 49 miles straight out I-94 to Exit 19, right around 50 minutes. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
Can I overlay the driveway instead of replacing it?
If the base is sound, yes, and it saves roughly half. If the surface is cracked into squares that flex underfoot, no: the base has failed and those cracks will come through a new overlay within a couple of years.
When can we drive on new asphalt?
Cars after about 24 hours once it has cooled properly, heavy vehicles after several days. In hot weather keep the wheels moving when you turn for the first few weeks, because fresh asphalt scuffs.

The Lots and Surfaces in Baldwin

Baldwin is a village of about 4,400 in St. Croix County, sitting at I-94 Exit 19 where US 63 crosses the interstate. It's about 49 miles west of Eau Claire and about 48 miles east of Minneapolis, and the county it's in is counted as part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro. US 12 and US 63 run through the village on top of the interstate. The county seat is Hudson, further west on I-94.

The industrial ground here has names on it. The I-94 Industrial Park and Baldwin East, a commercial and light industrial park, are the two the village markets, and TID No. 7 is a 258-acre mixed-use district at the south end created in 2007 to bring industrial and commercial development in. The plants are where the big private lots are: Vital Plastics runs injection molding out of about 70,000 square feet across two buildings on VandeBerg Street, Skycoat does powder coating, e-coating and wet painting on Evergreen Street, and Donaldson has a Baldwin plant.

The rest of the commercial surface is the interchange and the hospital. Exit 19 carries a truck stop and three more fuel and convenience stops, plus a pair of hotels off Baldwin Plaza Drive. Western Wisconsin Health is a 25-bed hospital on Bergslien Street just off the interstate, and it runs clinics in Roberts and Spring Valley too. In the village itself the stores are along Cedar Street, and the school district keeps Greenfield Elementary and Baldwin-Woodville Area High School here, with the middle school over in Woodville.

Where we work in Baldwin

  • I-94 Industrial Park
  • Baldwin East
  • TID No. 7 at the south end of the village
  • The Exit 19 interchange

Around Baldwin: I-94 Exit 19 at US 63, Western Wisconsin Health on Bergslien Street, The 1905 Red Church outside the village, Nilssen's Foods on Cedar Street, Baldwin-Woodville Area High School on 13th Avenue.

4,352 people, 2024 Census estimate.

St. Croix County is glacial ground: moraine running from clay through to boulders across most of the eastern county, and an outwash plain of stratified gravel, sand, silt and clay in the southwestern corner. Which one is under a lot changes what the frost does to it.

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  • Free on commercial lots and properties in Baldwin
  • A photo of the problem helps, and it can go in the message
  • Surfaces that are not ready yet get told so at the estimate

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