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Asphalt Repair and Patching in Hudson

Asphalt Repair and Patching in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Pothole, patch and sinkhole repair for commercial lots in Hudson. 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 west of Eau Claire on I-94. 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 Hudson

The truck traffic here is concentrated in a few places: a 640,000 square foot distribution center on 64 acres at WI 35 and Hanley Road, the warehouses on Industrial Street, the dock sides of the plants. A dock approach fails before the rest of the lot does, because that's where loaded trailers stop, turn and sit. Where the surface has gone but the base is sound, the repair is a saw-cut patch back to sound asphalt. Where the base is soft it gets dug out, rebuilt and compacted first, because hot mix laid over a soft base fails in the same spot.

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 Hudson

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 Hudson

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 Hudson

What Hudson calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
We're in Hudson. Is that outside what you cover?
No. It's about 66 miles straight out I-94, right around an hour, and for commercial lots we come. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
The asphalt at our dock is coming apart. Is that a patch or a rebuild?
It depends on what's under it, and that gets checked before a number goes on it. Where the surface has failed and the base is still sound, a saw-cut patch back to sound asphalt holds. Where the base has gone soft under a dock approach, patching the top buys a season, so that area gets dug out and rebuilt from the base up.
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 Hudson

Hudson is the county seat of St. Croix County, a city of about 15,000 on the St. Croix River where I-94 crosses into Minnesota. It's about 66 miles west of Eau Claire, right around an hour. The interstate gives the city four ways in: Exit 2 at Carmichael Road, both WIS 35 interchanges, and the US 12 and County U exit. The city is inside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, and it's the last Wisconsin exit before the bridge.

Two things sit on Carmichael Road, the retail and the county. Exit 2 puts a Home Depot right at the interchange, with Prairie View Center, a multi-tenant retail and office property, up at Vine Street, and the St. Croix County Government Center and Courthouse is on the same road and has been expanded. Hudson Hospital and Clinic is a 25-bed critical access hospital on Stageline Road off that same exit, with two more buildings on the campus. Hudson High School is on Vine Street with about 1,700 students, and UW-River Falls runs a satellite campus in town.

The industry is out at Hanley Road and WI 35. St. Croix Business Park started there in the mid-nineties and markets large parcels for employment centers and distribution warehouses, and it holds a 640,000 square foot distribution center on about 64 acres at the corner of WI 35 and Hanley Road. Phillips-Medisize has its North American headquarters here, in a 180,000 square foot plant on the old St. Croix Meadows site. The older industrial pavement is on Industrial Street, about a mile off the interstate.

Where we work in Hudson

  • The Carmichael Road corridor
  • St. Croix Business Park
  • Hanley Road
  • Industrial Street
  • Stageline Road

Around Hudson: The I-94 crossing over the St. Croix River, St. Croix County Government Center on Carmichael Road, The Phipps Center for the Arts, The Octagon House Museum, The site of the original Little Free Library.

15,031 people, 2024 Census estimate.

The glacial deposits under St. Croix County run from nothing at all where bedrock comes up to more than 450 feet in the buried valleys, with 5 to 150 feet the usual. They get deeper toward the west end of the county, which is the end Hudson is on.

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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 Hudson
  • 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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