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Asphalt Repair and Patching in Holmen

Asphalt Repair and Patching in Holmen, Wisconsin.

Pothole, patch and sinkhole repair for commercial lots in Holmen. Saw-cut square, the failed base dug out and rebuilt, the patch compacted flush and the joint sealed.

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4.7 from 21 Google reviews

About an hour and forty-five minutes southeast of Eau Claire on Highway 93 and Highway 53. The estimate is free.

A Bobcat skid steer beside two saw-cut sections of asphalt on a commercial parking lot, work area coned off while cars stay parked around it.
4.7 Google ratingFrom 21 reviews
7 days Sinkhole to finishedFrom a 2026 review
Full Depth patchingNot a skim over the top

Working in Holmen

The plants on the north end move food and dairy product, which means trucks and tankers on the same aprons every day. Where a loaded truck sits or turns is where the base gives out first, and the pothole that shows up there is the symptom rather than the problem. Repairs in that traffic get cut back square, the base rebuilt to something that compacts, and hot mix rolled in flush. On the school and village lots the failures are older and shallower, and cutting them out still beats filling them.

From our jobs

Job Photos

Two fresh asphalt patches laid in a worn parking lot, cones still around them
Full-depth patches laid and coned off
A crew member kneeling at a stall line working patch material by hand
Hand work at the stall lines
A fresh full-depth asphalt patch coned off in a commercial lot outside an industrial building with dock doors
A full-depth patch outside the dock doors

All job photos

Filled vs. repaired

The pothole that comes back every spring is being filled rather than repaired. Cold patch is a temporary measure and an honest one when it's sold as that: it's loose material tamped into a hole, with no bond to the sides and nothing done about the failed base underneath. It gets you through a winter. A real repair means cutting a clean square back to material that's still sound, taking out everything soft below it, putting the base back and compacting it in lifts, then laying hot asphalt and rolling it. The patch ends up stronger than what is around it, which is why the failure doesn't come back through the middle of it.

Filled

The quick version

  • Cold patch tamped into the hole as found
  • Ragged edges, so there's nothing to key against
  • Failed base left in place
  • Back within a season, usually wider

Repaired

What we do

  • Saw cut to clean vertical edges, back to sound asphalt
  • Soft material dug out until the bottom is firm
  • Base replaced and compacted in lifts
  • Hot mix laid, rolled, and the joint sealed

Cold patch has its place: it's the right call in February when nothing else can be done. It's the wrong call in July.

Repair or repave?

Most lots that get deferred don't need repaving.

What we look at before quoting either one.

  • Two or three potholes, the rest of the surface is soundStraightforward patching. Nowhere near needing an overlay.
  • The garage apron has sunk where it meets the concreteCommon and fixable. Usually settlement under the transition, cut out and rebuilt.
  • Cracked into squares in a few areas, sound elsewhereCut those areas out full depth, patch, then seal the whole surface.
  • That squared cracking across most of the lotThe base has gone broadly. Patching it becomes a rolling cost with no end. An overlay or a rebuild is the answer.
  • Water sits in the same spot after every rainGrade or drainage, and it has to be solved before any surface work, or the new surface fails in exactly the same place.

Photos of the worst two areas are usually enough for us to tell you which it is.

What Decides the Price in Holmen

Repairs are priced by area and by how deep the trouble goes, and the depth isn't knowable until it's open. These are the bands most jobs land in.

Single pothole

Up to a few square feet

Measured on site

  • Saw cut, dig out, base, hot mix, compact
  • Cheaper alongside other work

Failed area or apron

Roughly 50 to 300 sq ft

Measured on site

  • The common commercial repair, and the garage apron at home
  • Priced per square foot once the area is measured

Sinkhole or subgrade failure

Depth unknown until opened

Measured on site

  • Often a drainage or utility problem underneath
  • Assessed and quoted before the machine moves

Several repairs on one visit come down substantially per repair, because getting the machine and the crew on site is most of the cost of a small one. If you have three, have them all looked at.

How the Work Goes in Holmen

Same method on a driveway apron and on a loading dock approach.

Find the edge of the failure

The visible hole is smaller than the damage. We sound out where the surface is still supported and cut outside that, not around the hole.

Saw cut square, clean vertical faces

A patch cut tight against a clean edge stays. A patch feathered against a ragged one fails at the joint, which is why so many patches fail in a ring.

Dig out to something firm

Everything soft comes out. If the bottom is wet, that's a drainage problem and the best patch in the world won't last sitting on water.

Base back in, compacted in lifts

Compacted in layers rather than dumped and rolled once. This is the invisible step that decides whether the repair lasts two years or twenty.

Hot mix, rolled, joint sealed

Laid to the surrounding grade so water still runs where it's supposed to, compacted, and the perimeter joint sealed against the next freeze.

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Questions We Get in Holmen

What Holmen calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
Holmen's off the interstate. Do you still come out?
Yes, for commercial lots. It's about 73 miles from Eau Claire, an hour and forty-five minutes down Highway 93 and Highway 53, and the village sits ten miles up from I-90 Exit 4. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
Where does work on an old track or a set of courts start?
It starts with what's underneath. A surface that's been patched for years can need anything from crack repair and a recoat to a full rebuild, and the difference is in the base and the drainage rather than in how the top looks. A walk and measurements come first, then a written scope with quantities you can put in front of the board.
How much does pothole repair cost?
Square footage and depth, mostly. A pothole that stops at the surface is a different job from one where the base underneath has gone, and you cannot tell which you have until it is opened. What we can tell you before that: several repairs done on one visit come down substantially per repair, because the trip and the mobilisation are already paid for. The assessment is free.
Why does my patch keep failing?
Almost always because it was filled rather than repaired: no clean cut, no removal of the failed base, and nothing bonding it to the asphalt around it. The failure was underneath and it's still there.
Can you repair a sinkhole in a driveway or lot?
Yes, and quickly. Our newest review is a sinkhole repaired within seven days. A sinkhole means material is being washed out from underneath, usually by drainage or a failed pipe, so the repair includes finding out why.
Is it cheaper to repair the asphalt or repave it?
Repair, until roughly a quarter to a third of the surface has failed. Past that you're patching patches and an overlay becomes better value. The estimate measures how much of your surface has actually failed.
How soon can we drive on a new asphalt patch?
Hot mix takes traffic as soon as it has cooled, usually a few hours. That's the material rather than a schedule: what a specific repair means for your lot is one of the things the estimate works out.

The Lots and Surfaces in Holmen

Holmen is a village of about 11,900 in La Crosse County, up US 53 from I-90 Exit 4, in what the county calls its primary growth corridor. It runs roughly seven miles north to south along Highways 53 and 35, and it's one of the faster growing communities in the state. From Eau Claire it's about 73 miles, an hour and forty-five minutes down Highway 93 and Highway 53.

The industrial ground is all on the north end. The North Holmen Industrial Area is just over 100 acres with about 81 of them developable, zoned light industrial, half a mile from four-lane Highway 53 and ten miles from I-90, with village water and sewer mains, gas along Granary Street and power on site. Kwik Trip, XeteX, Dairyland and Holmen Cheese are already in the North Holmen park, and around 60 percent of that land is still open. Bluffview, Hawkeye and McGilvray are the other three parks up there, and all of them were certified shovel-ready in December 2025 after checks on soil, utilities, zoning and ownership.

The other lots that matter belong to the village and the school district. The Municipal Center is here, and the district runs Holmen High School on McHugh Road with about 1,200 students, a middle school and four elementary schools. In April 2026 voters passed an operational referendum for programming, safety and maintenance, and it explicitly does not fund new buildings, which puts the money on the buildings and grounds already there.

Where we work in Holmen

  • North Holmen Industrial Park
  • Bluffview Business Park
  • Hawkeye Business Park
  • McGilvray Park
  • Highway 35 and Highway 53

Around Holmen: Star Hill, Empire Stadium at Holmen High School, The Holmen Municipal Center, The old Holmen Bank building at Main and State, Drugan's Golf Club on Sylvester Road.

11,866 people, 2024 Census estimate.

La Crosse County is in the Driftless Area, never glaciated, with the bedrock near the surface and loess over much of it. Star Hill, the bluff behind the village with the lit star on it, is what that looks like from the road.

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Tell us what it looks like and we'll come measure it. You get a written price before anything starts.

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  • Free on commercial lots and properties in Holmen
  • 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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