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Crack Filling and Sealing in Maplewood

Crack Filling and Sealing in Maplewood, Minnesota.

Hot rubber crack filling for parking lots in Maplewood. Routed where it needs it, filled at 400 degrees, priced by the foot of crack rather than by the acre.

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About an hour and fifteen minutes west of Eau Claire on I-94. The estimate is free.

A web of freshly filled cracks running across a parking lot, the rubber still glossy.
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Working in Maplewood

The lots carrying the crack list here are the big ones: the mall's ring road and its outlots, the hospital approaches on Beam Avenue, the corporate campus, and the industrial buildings along Gervais. On a ring road the cracks open in the turns, where the surface takes a sideways load every time a car comes around. Wide cracks get routed to a clean face and hot rubber goes in at 400 degrees so it bonds to the walls and stays flexible instead of pulling loose. Fall, before the ground freezes, is when a filled crack does the most good.

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Job Photos

The crack crew's trucks and melter working a tree-lined road, road work sign up
The crack crew working a town road
The company flatbed and the yellow crack-seal melter on a road shoulder, two crew in hi-vis working ahead of it
The melter on site, crew working ahead of it

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Hot rubber vs. cold pour

The stuff in a jug at the hardware store is cold pour. It goes in as a liquid, dries, shrinks, and sits in the crack like a rubber band laid in a trench. It's not bonded to anything. The first hard freeze pulls the crack open, the filler has nothing holding it to the walls, and it lifts out in a strip. Most people have seen this happen and assumed it was a bad batch. Hot-applied rubber goes in at around 400 degrees. At that temperature it's thin enough to run down into the crack instead of bridging it, and hot enough to melt into the asphalt faces on either side. When it cools it has bonded to the walls of the crack, so when the crack moves, the filler moves with it.

Cold pour

The jug from the hardware store, and what a cheap quote uses

  • Sits in the crack rather than bonding to it
  • Shrinks as it cures, leaving a channel down the middle
  • Pulls out in strips after the first hard winter
  • Cheap enough that it gets redone every year, which isn't cheap

Hot-applied rubber

What comes off our kettle

  • Flows to the bottom of the crack at 400 degrees
  • Melts into the asphalt faces and bonds to both walls
  • Stays flexible, so it moves when the crack moves
  • Holds for years, not for one season

This is the one place where the cheaper option isn't a smaller version of the right one. It's a different product doing a different thing.

What Decides the Price in Maplewood

Priced by the foot of crack, not by the area of the surface, because that's what actually drives the work. Usually done as part of a sealcoating job, where it costs less than it would on its own.

Commercial lot

Per linear foot

Measured on site

  • Depends on crack width, depth and how much routing it needs
  • Most lots are quoted as a lump sum after a walk

Cracks wider than about an inch and a half, or ones that have broken into a network, are past filling. Those get cut out and patched rather than filled with something that will not hold.

How the Work Goes in Maplewood

Done before sealer, always: sealer can't bridge an open crack.

Clean the crack out

Blown out with compressed air, vegetation and old failed filler removed. Rubber won't bond to dirt any more than sealer will.

Rout the wide ones

Wide or heavily worked cracks get cut to a consistent reservoir so the filler has a proper shape to sit in. Not every crack needs it; the ones that do are the ones that have already failed once.

Fill hot

Direct-fire kettle, rubber at 400 degrees, wanded into the crack until it's full from the bottom up rather than skinned over at the top.

Squeegee and let it set

Struck off flush or slightly banded over, depending on the surface. Sets hard enough to drive on in under an hour in most conditions.

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Questions We Get in Maplewood

What Maplewood calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
How far out is Maplewood for you?
About 78 miles from Eau Claire and roughly an hour and fifteen minutes, straight out I-94 or around on I-694. 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 crack filling cost?
It is priced by the linear foot of crack rather than by the size of the surface, so a big driveway with four cracks costs less than a small one that has opened up all over. Width matters too: anything wide enough to need routing out first takes longer. On a driveway it is usually included up to a point when it is done with a sealcoat rather than billed on its own.
Why does the temperature of the crack filler matter?
At 400 degrees the rubber is thin enough to reach the bottom of the crack and hot enough to melt into the asphalt on both sides, so it bonds. Cold pour filler can't do either, which is why it lifts out in strips after a winter.
Should I fill cracks before sealcoating or after?
Before, always. Sealer is a thin wear layer and it can't bridge an open crack. Sealing over one changes its color and nothing else, and the crack reappears through the new surface within weeks.
Is there a crack too big to fill?
Yes. Past about an inch and a half, or once cracking has broken into a network of squares, filling won't hold because the surface around it is moving independently. Those areas get cut out and patched instead.
When is the best time of year for crack filling?
Spring or early fall in Maplewood and the surrounding area is ideal, because cracks are at a middling width. In high summer they're at their tightest and in deep winter they're at their widest, and filling at either extreme means the filler is working against the movement rather than with it.

The Lots and Surfaces in Maplewood

Maplewood is in Ramsey County, about six miles north of downtown St. Paul, roughly 40,000 people on 17 square miles. From Eau Claire it's about 78 miles and an hour and a quarter, out I-94 the whole way or around the top on I-694. Highway 36 crosses the city east to west and I-694 loops the north and east metro through it. The Met Council counts about 36,600 jobs inside the city, in education, health care, manufacturing, retail and social services.

3M's global headquarters is here, on the campus the company started buying in 1952, and it opened a 400,000 square foot research building on that campus with room for up to 700 scientists. Maplewood Mall on White Bear Avenue is 931,000 square feet across two floors, and Birch Run Station sits next to it on Beam Avenue with access to I-694 and Highway 61. M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital is on Beam Avenue, acute care with 184 licensed beds.

The industrial ground is the Highway 36 and Gervais Avenue corridor, buildings in the 30,000 to 50,000 square foot range with access to I-694 and I-35E. Ramsey County has Aldrich Arena on White Bear Avenue and its Maplewood library on Southlawn Drive. Hill-Murray, a private school on a 40-acre site on Larpenteur Avenue, is the high school inside the city; neither of ISD 622's high schools is in Maplewood. The former Sears and Macy's space at the mall is being redeveloped as the Pan Asian Center, and the METRO Bronze Line is planned along White Bear and Maryland avenues with 22 stations and five miles of dedicated bus lanes.

Where we work in Maplewood

  • White Bear Avenue
  • Beam Avenue
  • The Highway 36 and Gervais Avenue corridor
  • Southlawn Drive

Around Maplewood: 3M Center, Maplewood Mall on White Bear Avenue, M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital on Beam Avenue, Aldrich Arena on White Bear Avenue, Hill-Murray School on Larpenteur Avenue.

40,142 people, 2024 Census estimate.

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