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Asphalt Repair and Patching in New Richmond

Asphalt Repair and Patching in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

Pothole, patch and sinkhole repair for commercial lots in New Richmond. 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 fifteen minutes northwest of Eau Claire on I-94 and Highway 64. 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 New Richmond

The airport is the unusual one here: 123 privately owned hangars and better than 275 based aircraft is a lot of pavement on one site. The plant on West 3rd Street and the truck side of the West Richmond Way retail are the other places a lot takes real weight in one spot. Where a hole has opened up the base under it went first, so the fix is a square cut back to sound asphalt with the base dug out and rebuilt, and hot mix rolled in flush with what's around it.

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 New Richmond

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 New Richmond

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 New Richmond

What New Richmond calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far is New Richmond from you?
About 69 miles, an hour and fifteen minutes, out I-94 and then north on Highway 64. 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.
Does pavement work go out as a formal bid for a school district?
Yes. You get a written scope with the quantities and a fixed number, in the form the district needs to put in front of a board. Quantities are what let a board compare one number against another, so the scope lists them area by area rather than as a lump.
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 New Richmond

New Richmond is a city of about 10,900 in St. Croix County, north of the interstate where Highway 64 running east and west meets Highway 65 running north and south through town as Knowles Avenue. It's 69 driving miles from Eau Claire, about an hour and fifteen, out I-94 and then north. Highway 64 is an expressway with at-grade intersections until 145th Street in the city and a two-lane surface road from there in, which is worth knowing if you're routing a truck. The Willow River runs through the city.

The industrial ground is one park, one big plant and an airport. The New Richmond Business and Technical Park runs about 107 acres off Highway 65 on the south side, inside a tax increment district, with water, sewer, electric, natural gas and telecom in, rail under two miles off and the airport three. Syntegon builds packaging machinery at 155 West 3rd Street, a plant that has been through two owners before this one and employs more than 270 people. New Richmond Regional Airport has 123 privately owned hangars, more than any other airport in Wisconsin, better than 275 based aircraft, a jet center and roughly 35,000 to 40,000 operations a year.

The retail and institutional lots are on the two highways. West Richmond Way carries a Walmart Supercenter with a walk-in clinic inside the building, and South Knowles Avenue carries Northwood Technical College's New Richmond campus. Westfields Hospital and Clinic is a full medical campus on Hospital Road with an emergency department, primary and specialty clinics, a pharmacy, inpatient care and maternity. The school district has three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school on East Richmond Way with about 1,100 students, and a 2024 referendum paid for additions, renovations and site work across three of those buildings.

Where we work in New Richmond

  • New Richmond Business and Technical Park
  • West Richmond Way
  • South Knowles Avenue
  • New Richmond Regional Airport

Around New Richmond: New Richmond Regional Airport, The Willow River through town, Mary Park on Mary Park Lake, Freedom Park, The New Richmond West Side Historic District.

10,879 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Wisconsin is split into five frost zones for WisDOT's frozen road declaration, which goes out once the ground has frozen at least 18 inches deep. That's the number that matters to a lot: how far down the frost gets, not how cold the air is.

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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 New Richmond
  • 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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