Asphalt driveways built new, overlaid or rebuilt across Tarrant, Johnson, Parker and Denton counties, plus private roads, acreage drives and small commercial lots. Paving is priced per job after someone has looked at the ground, because in North Texas the ground is usually the story.
Drive through most Fort Worth subdivisions and the driveways are poured concrete, and the approach at the curb is concrete by city rule. We work on asphalt. We do not seal, stain or repair concrete, and we would rather say so up front.
Asphalt earns its place in different spots here: long drives on acreage out in Parker, Johnson and Denton counties, ranch and farm entrances, private roads shared by a few houses, church and office lots, and older properties that were paved in blacktop and never changed. It costs less to lay over a long distance than concrete, it can be patched in sections, and it flexes a little where concrete cracks straight through, which matters on ground that moves.
A great deal of North Texas sits on clay that shrinks when a summer drought dries it and swells when the rain comes back. The ground under a driveway rises and falls with it, and the pavement on top cracks along the lines where it was pulled. Long cracks running parallel to the edge of a drive, cracks that open wide in August and close up again in a wet spring, and a drive that has humped or dropped along one side are usually the soil, not tired asphalt.
That changes what is worth doing:
Nobody can stop clay from moving, but a drive can be built to put up with it. The rebuild quote is mostly about what goes under the asphalt: how much of the soft or wet subgrade comes out, how deep the compacted stone base goes back, and how it is shaped so rain leaves the drive instead of soaking in along its edges. Water getting into clay beside and beneath a drive is what makes it swell unevenly, so the edges and the drainage get as much attention as the surface.
Trees matter here too. A big tree beside a drive pulls moisture out of the clay in summer, and the soil near its roots shrinks more than the soil a few yards away. The quote will point out where that is likely the cause of a crack, because repaving over it will not stop it coming back.
In Fort Worth the driveway approach, the stretch between the street and the sidewalk, sits in the city parkway, and the city's parkway standards spell out how it is built: concrete at least six inches thick through the approach and its sidewalk section, reinforced with rebar, on subgrade compacted to 95 percent of standard proctor. A two car approach runs 18 to 24 feet wide. Where the curb is cut on an asphalt street, the street is patched with hot mix asphalt in lifts of no more than two inches, and cold mix is not allowed. Homes in historic districts need that district's written approval.
So an asphalt driveway in Fort Worth usually ends where the concrete approach begins, and rebuilding the approach is a concrete job under a parkway permit. Other cities set their own rules; the county pages cover Tarrant, Johnson, Parker and Denton.
You get one written price with the scope spelled out: what comes out, what goes back and how thick, and where the job stops at the road.
Hot mix is easy to place in a Texas summer. The problem is the first few weeks after: fresh asphalt on a hundred degree afternoon is soft, and a trailer jack, a kickstand or a car turning its wheels while parked can dent or scuff it. Keep heavy points off it and drive straight in and out until it has been through some cooler nights.
New asphalt should not be sealed right away either. The oils in the mix need six to twelve months to cure out. A drive paved this spring gets its first coat of sealer next year, which is when the sun has started to gray it.
Supercell storms that drop large hail are part of life in North Texas. Hail rarely does much to an asphalt driveway, which is thick and flexible, but it brings trucks through neighborhoods offering to pave or seal with material left over from another job. Be wary of any offer that has to be taken today, that comes with no written scope, or that wants cash before work starts. A real paving job starts with a measurement and a written price.
A lot or a shared road follows the same logic at a bigger scale. Entrances and drive lanes fail first, so the usual plan is to rebuild those, patch the rest, then seal and restripe the whole surface together. Parking lot sealcoating covers phasing around a business that stays open, and the HOA and property manager page covers communities and apartments.
Send the address through the form and say it is about paving, with a photo of the worst section if you have one. The drive gets measured and looked at, you are told honestly whether it needs new asphalt or whether a repair and a seal will do, and if it does need paving you get a written scope and one price. Paving is done by a local independent paving contractor.
