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Crack Filling and Sealing in Woodbury

Crack Filling and Sealing in Woodbury, Minnesota.

Hot rubber crack filling for parking lots in Woodbury. 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 twenty 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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400°F Applied atDirect-fire rubber
9% Water expandsEvery time it freezes

Working in Woodbury

MnDOT wants 30 to 36 inches of frost-free material under flexible pavement and rates silt as the worst soil there is for heave. That's the whole story of an open crack on a lot here: water gets into the base, freezes, lifts, and the crack is wider next spring. Wide ones get routed to a clean face first and hot rubber goes in at 400 degrees, which is what makes it grip the crack walls rather than sit in the gap. On a retail lot the crack list is usually the drive aisles and the delivery route around the back, because that's where the load is.

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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 Woodbury

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 Woodbury

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 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 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 Woodbury 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 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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  • 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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