You’ve got your spray system, you’ve got your sealer, you’ve surveyed and prepped the surface of your asphalt, and you're eager to get started. Now all that’s left is to get that sealcoat spray system ready to work, and you’ll be able to start applying sealer to an asphalt surface to protect it from the elements.
How to Use Sealer Spray System
Check fluid levels, drain plugs and valves, ensure the system is properly primed, and load the sealer are some tips on how to use sealer spray system.
Topics: Sealcoating, Equipment Care
Here's What to Do After Sealcoating
After sealcoating, keep traffic off the asphalt until it's fully cured, clean stains immediately, wash it frequently, and paint new parking lot lines.
Sealcoating is one of the most important measures a property manager can take to maintain the long-term health of an asphalt surface. It creates a barrier that will protect the blacktop from constant threats. The job doesn’t end once the sealer has stopped spraying, though. To reap the full benefits of complete asphalt maintenance, there are several additional steps you should take after you’re done sealcoating.
Topics: Asphalt Maintenance, Sealcoating
How Sealcoating Protects Asphalt
Sealcoating protects asphalt by applying asphalt sealer every two years. It forms a shield to your blacktop from the sun, rain, temperature, and traffic.
Asphalt is not a solid fixture to be laid down once and left to the elements, never to be maintained. It is a dynamic material that requires ongoing care for a prolonged lifespan. Sealcoating the surface every two years is therefore critical. While applying sealer is easy enough that anyone can do it with little knowledge of how it works, understanding exactly why asphalt deteriorates and how sealcoating prevents this will better equip you to care for your asphalt—sealcoating, and beyond.
Topics: Asphalt Maintenance, Sealcoating
5 Tips for Making the Most of Night Sealcoating
Night sealcoating tips include daylight inspections, ensuring proper visibility, using additives, checking the weather, and properly disposing of debris.
Asphalt maintenance is an excellent career opportunity for anyone who wants to be their own boss, enjoys working with their hands outside, and isn’t afraid of hard work. Success in this exciting business, however, requires entrepreneurship and the ability to strategize ways of expanding and maximizing your services.
Topics: Sealcoating, Asphalt Maintenance Business
How a Sealcoat Sprayer Works
Asphalt sealcoat sprayer systems draw sealer from a source, pump it through a hose, and dispense it out of a spray gun for surface application.
Investing in an asphalt sealcoat sprayer is an excellent way to professionally sealcoat blacktop surfaces, saving significant time and up to 40% of material while doing so. The equipment might seem a bit complicated to those new to asphalt sealcoating, but this is not the case. A sealcoat sprayer operates in a relatively straightforward manner, as you’ll learn below.
Topics: Sealcoating
Best Sealcoat Sprayer Accessories For Your Equipment
Using the best sealcoat sprayer accessories can save you time, money, and resources. Several cutting-edge goods boost productivity and increase efficiency.
Improving efficiencies is a critical component of operating a successful asphalt sealcoating business. Correcting errors, repairing broken equipment and performing duplicate tasks expends time, money and resources better applied servicing customers and making more sales. Utilizing the best sealcoating supplies and equipment on the market can reduce waste, maximize productivity and boost your bottom line.
Topics: Sealcoating, Asphalt Maintenance Business
Sealcoating Tips
Share your Asphalt Sealing tips on the most popular asphalt maintenance site online. Add your sealcoating tips, or read tips that have been sent to us.
Asphalt Kingdom has one of the largest networks of sealcoaters in the business and strives to be the source of information when it comes to taking care of blacktop. So, we thought it would be great to collect all of the tips that the Asphalt Kingdom team, as well as professionals from around the world, have shared and organize them so that everyone can learn more about this important step in asphalt maintenance.
Topics: Sealcoating
Sealcoating Repaired Driveway Patch
Sealcoating repaired driveway can be done not just by professionals but also by homeowners. It is fairly easy to do and we'll share with you some tips.
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Many homeowners assume that doing repair work on their driveway has to be done by professionals. The fact is that it is now fairly easy to perform simple repair work on common driveway problems such as cracks and potholes.
Topics: Sealcoating
Different Types of Blacktop Sealers
There are several different kinds of sealers on the market today. Here’s a brief look at the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.
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Blacktop sealers are an essential product for any homeowner or business owner with a driveway, parking lot or other asphalt surface. There are several different kinds of sealers on the market today. Here’s a brief look at the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Topics: Sealcoating
Priming Sealcoat Spray System
Priming sealcoat spray system is the first step to getting your machine running at peak performance. It's easier than you think!
It’s very important to prime your spray system before sealcoating a property for a variety of reasons; to keep your unit in top shape, avoid blockages and keep it running smoothly. Here are the best ways to do so. Whether you have the AK Drum Spray System, the AK Tote Spray System, or the AK130 Residential Sealcoat Sprayer, we’ve got you covered.
Topics: Sealcoating, Equipment Care