If you manage commercial parking lots, sprawling roadways, or other paved infrastructure, you likely face the occasional battle against potholes, cracks, and general asphalt deterioration. These pesky problems gobble maintenance budgets, leaving little room for other crucial investments. If there was a way to reduce your expenditure on these activities, you’d probably take it in a heartbeat. Fortunately, pavement milling might just be the solution you’ve been searching for.
Here are the ways pavement milling can help you pocket some serious savings:
- Allows for Targeted Repairs. With pavement milling, you won’t need to resurface entire stretches of pavement – you’ll only target the damaged sections of the pavement. This will preserve the good sections, thus reducing the material costs of resurfacing.
- You Can Choose the Depth. Pavement milling also gives you the flexibility to choose the depth of your repairs. For instance, if the pavement’s depth is 4 inches, you can mill the top 2 inches, effectively reducing your asphalt usage by 50% during resurfacing. This translates to significant cost savings that can be reallocated to other vital projects.
- Milled Materials Can be Recycled. Those milled-off bits of asphalt aren’t necessarily trash. They can be ground up and converted into a fantastic – and cheaper – substitute for gravel in other paving projects.
- Less Downtime. The beauty of pavement milling is it can be done right before resurfacing. It’s like a ‘prep step’ that enables faster project completion with less traffic disruption. Consequently, you won’t need a bigger crew to handle the resurfacing project, meaning you’ll lower your labor costs.
If you’d like to learn more about the benefits of pavement milling, talk to us at AAA Top Quality Asphalt today.