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Asphalt Repair and Patching in Sparta

Asphalt Repair and Patching in Sparta, Wisconsin.

Pothole, patch and sinkhole repair for commercial lots in Sparta. 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 twenty minutes southeast of Eau Claire on I-94 and I-90. 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 Sparta

The heavy traffic here is food and manufacturing plus a sand operation, and loaded trucks are what find the weak spot in a lot. A failed area in a drive lane gets saw cut back square to asphalt that's still sound, the base dug out and rebuilt, then hot mix laid and rolled flush. A patch over a soft base is back out of the ground the next spring. On a lot with retention plumbed into it, the repair also has to leave the grade running where it was designed to run.

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 Sparta

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 Sparta

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 Sparta

What Sparta calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far down I-90 will you come for a lot?
Sparta is about 77 miles from Eau Claire, an hour and twenty minutes on I-94 and then I-90, 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.
South Pointe has retention on each parcel. Does that change how a lot gets repaired?
It changes where the water is supposed to end up, so the structures and the grade in your lot are part of the job rather than something to work around. When a basin frame drops, the lot stops draining where it was designed to and the water finds a low spot nobody planned. Repairs get set back to the pitch the lot was built to.
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 Sparta

Sparta is the seat of Monroe County and its largest city, about 10,000 people at Exit 25 on I-90, roughly 77 miles from Eau Claire. Highways 16, 21, 27 and 71 all come through, and Fort McCoy, a 60,000-acre Army training installation, sits between here and Tomah. The 1895 courthouse is downtown and the newer commercial ground is on the south side, where I-90 meets Highway 27.

South Pointe Business Park is the big one: 180 acres at the I-90 and Highway 27 junction with fully improved lots from 1.5 to 80 acres, opened in 2018 and built out through a second phase that put in streets, storm sewer, water mains, hydrants and curb and gutter. The state certifies 114.4 contiguous acres there with 94 developable, industrially zoned, with community stormwater retention on each parcel and no wetlands or floodplain. The city bought close to 200 acres for it after the east side park filled, and a health and wellness building is the newest lot going in at South Pointe.

The employers named for Sparta are Century Foods International, Northern Engraving on South Black River Street, Spartek, Mathews on River Road, McPherson Guitars and a U.S. Silica sand operation. Mayo Clinic Health System's hospital is downtown at 310 West Main Street, a critical access hospital with 25 beds and outpatient surgery, radiology and rehab, and the St. Clare Health Mission shares the building. Fort McCoy runs more than 1,400 training events a year with about 450 military and 2,500 civilian people working on post, and the city describes it as a significant part of its economy.

Where we work in Sparta

  • South Pointe Business Park
  • East Side Business Park
  • Downtown Sparta
  • The I-90 and Highway 27 junction

Around Sparta: The 1895 Monroe County Courthouse, Mayo Clinic Health System on West Main Street, Fort McCoy, The Elroy-Sparta State Trail, Ben Bikin'.

9,963 people, 2024 Census estimate.

Monroe County is Driftless country, never glaciated. The South Pointe ground was farm field, open scrub and woodland before it was a business park.

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  • Free on commercial lots and properties in Sparta
  • 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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