Learn How to Sealcoat Asphalt at Night

00:00 Welcome Justin
02:50 Nighttime asphalt maintenance, USA Sealcoaters
03:45 Justin background
05:35 Challenges you faced
09:42 Advice to somebody who is on edge on giving up
13:52 Power of Social media & Networking
16:47 My mentors
18:38 Nighttime asphalt maintenance
19:55 Types of jobs
23:27 Important key tools for lighting you use
26:47 You use any portable stuff
28:00 Getting rid of dirt & debris
29:08 What you use for crack filling
31:23 About the safety wear
32:11 How you make sure cracks are sealed in the night-time
34:11 Do you use humidity charts and stuff
37:52 Do you use the same product & all properties as in day-time
40:00 Without Fast dry I would have lost thousands on jobs
42:00 Do you use a waterborne painter
44:02 Line striping at night
45:10 How long you doing this business
46:30 Wrapping up
1. Visit the job site during the day, if you can.
Blacktop looks much different by day than it does by night, and crews might miss certain surface features that they should be aware of before they start working. “I like to go in and see where the main focus is,” Justin explains. Reviewing the lot or driveway beforehand can reveal critical details that might otherwise have been missed, which could have caused mistakes, or inconsistent quality.
2. Ensure you have proper lighting and visibility.
This might seem like an obvious piece of advice, but it’s too important for us to leave out. “We have light bars on all of our trucks,” Justin tells me, stressing the significance of being able to see everything at the job site-including your team. Maintaining visibility is more than just including plenty of lights, Justin explains: “We all have safety vests on, no matter what.”
3. Use additives.
Additives are different solutions that can be combined with asphalt sealer to enhance its properties. One of Justin’s favorites is fast-dry, which just as it sounds, helps sealer dry faster-a great quality to have when you want the driveway or parking lot to be ready to receive traffic the next morning. As Justin and I put it: “If you’re not running fast-dry, you’re missing out.” www.asphaltkingdom.com/fass-d...
4. Check the weather.
This is more than just making sure it’s not going to rain. You also need to check the temperature and humidity. “Here in Michigan, we get the weirdest weather ever,” Justin explains, describing how temperature and moisture can vary widely. Even if it’s not raining, high humidity can affect how your sealer dries, and can also influence how you mix it. “We’re close to the water, so the humidity is kind of crazy,” he continues. “When you’re mixing sealer, you want to mix it for how the weather is going to be.”
5. Properly dispose of debris.
This is, unfortunately, one of the harder lessons Justin had to learn and is just as important to sealcoating during the day as to doing so at night. Never leave rocks and other debris piled up on the property that were blown off of the asphalt before sealcoating or other types of maintenance. It just takes getting caught in the path of landscaping equipment the next day for those rocks to turn into small projectiles. “Next thing you know, there are people with shattered windows,” he says. So, do yourself and your customers a favor and make sure your crews are disposing of debris properly.
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Can you prevent that splash issue if you watch the thermostat and maintain at 350-400?