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Asphalt Repair and Patching in Woodbury

Asphalt Repair and Patching in Woodbury, Minnesota.

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

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About an hour and twenty minutes 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 Woodbury

The newest heavy-truck pavement in town is on the northeast side, where a 223,418 square foot last-mile warehouse and sorting building is going up. Truck courts and dock approaches fail differently from a customer lot, because the load stands still, turns tight and lands in the same spot every day. A pothole in a truck lane is a base problem with a surface symptom, so it gets saw-cut back to sound asphalt, the failed base dug out and rebuilt in lifts, and the patch compacted flush with the joint sealed. On the retail side the failures are usually in the delivery lane behind the stores rather than in the parking.

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 Woodbury

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 Woodbury

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 Woodbury

What Woodbury calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far west do you come for a lot?
Woodbury is about 78 miles from Eau Claire, an hour and twenty minutes straight down I-94, off Exit 250 or Exit 251. For commercial lots we come out. Send the address and what the lot needs and we'll set up a time to walk it. The estimate is free.
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 Woodbury

Woodbury is the largest city in Washington County and the seventh largest in Minnesota, about 80,000 people and roughly 78 miles west of Eau Claire on I-94. It comes off the interstate at Exit 250, Radio Drive and Inwood Avenue, and Exit 251, Woodbury Drive. The city's own plan puts it near 88,000 people by 2040.

The retail is concentrated on Radio Drive. Tamarack Village sits right at I-94 and Radio with more than 60 stores, and Woodbury Lakes and CityPlace are next to each other in the north end of the city. M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital is on Woodwinds Drive, 86 beds on a 30-acre campus, and M Health Fairview tops the city's employer list ahead of the school district, Target and 3M. The city's own campus is on Valley Creek Road and Washington County's central service and license center is on Woodlane Drive.

The industrial side is newer and it's on the northeast corner. Amazon has a last-mile building under construction in the Northeast Business Park Area, 223,418 square feet of warehouse and sorting, and Woodbury Lakes Business Park is marketed as build-to-suit industrial on I-94 frontage. In 2025 the city issued permits for seven new commercial buildings totaling 563,047 square feet. The METRO Gold Line runs bus rapid transit through Woodbury with three stations, one of them a park-and-ride at Guider Drive and Woodlane Drive.

Where we work in Woodbury

  • Radio Drive
  • Tamarack Village
  • Woodbury Lakes
  • CityPlace
  • The Northeast Business Park Area

Around Woodbury: Tamarack Village at I-94 and Radio Drive, M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital on Woodwinds Drive, M Health Fairview Sports Center on Radio Drive, Carver Lake Park, Ojibway Park.

80,596 people, 2024 Census estimate.

MnDOT builds flexible pavement over 30 to 36 inches of frost-free material, and it rates silt as the soil with the highest frost heave potential. It publishes frost and thaw readings from Washington County monitoring sites, and those are what set the spring load limits.

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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 Woodbury
  • 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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