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Home Asphalt Paving
New driveways, parking lots, private roads, and sport courts, plus tear-outs, overlays, and gravel-to-asphalt conversions. Four generations of asphalt crews working across the Portland metro, Southwest Washington, and the Columbia River Gorge.
Anyone can spread hot asphalt. What separates a driveway that holds up for twenty years from one that cracks in three is the work nobody sees afterward: grading the base, compacting it properly, and getting the drainage right before a single truckload of blacktop shows up. That’s the part a four-generation paving crew doesn’t skip.
Porter walks every site himself, residential driveway, commercial lot, or private road, and gives you the bid. His crew handles the grading, the base work, and the paving. No subcontractors bouncing between companies, and no surprise change orders once the trucks show up.
One crew handles driveway paving, parking lot paving, private road paving, and sport court paving, all the way through tear-outs and asphalt overlays. Here’s the rundown.
New asphalt driveways for homes, and full replacements for cracked, sunken, or patched-over driveways that have run their course.
New lots and full repaves for retail, offices, and apartment properties, built to carry daily traffic without breaking down early.
Shared roads the city does not maintain. We work with HOA boards and neighbor groups splitting the cost, and schedule the work around driveway access for the whole street.
Graded flat and compacted before any blacktop goes down, so the court plays true instead of pooling water in the low spots.
Standalone pads and long driveways built to carry the weight of a motorhome, trailer, or work truck without settling.
A fresh layer over a solid existing base, or a full tear-out and repave when the old surface and base are both done. We will tell you honestly which one your property needs.
General contractors bring us in as the paving sub on new construction and remodels. Property managers and HOA boards get one point of contact for the whole job, and can fold paving into a broader commercial asphalt maintenance plan.
We only pave asphalt, so take this for what it’s worth: here’s the straight answer, not a sales pitch.
Costs less to install than concrete
Flexes with our freeze-thaw winters instead of cracking like a rigid slab
Comes back to a like-new look every few years with sealcoating
Ready for regular traffic in 1–2 days after paving
Small problems get caught early with routine crack filling and repair
Generally lasts longer overall
Costs more upfront to install
Cracks are harder to patch invisibly once they show
Needs longer to cure before regular use
Not a service we install, but we’re happy to talk through the tradeoffs
A lot of paving calls start with a gravel driveway that has had enough: ruts after every rain, gravel migrating into the yard, dust all summer. We grade the base, compact it right, and pave it into a driveway that sheds water instead of holding onto it.
It’s the same base-first process whether we’re converting gravel, tearing out a failed driveway, or paving a private road for the first time. Here’s the kind of finish that process leaves behind, on a commercial lot Porter’s crew recently sealed and restriped.
See more transformations, including full paving jobs, in our before-and-after gallery.
Real Porter job: sealcoat and re-stripe
Call or send the form. Porter walks the site and gives you a clear, fair bid before anything is scheduled.
Old surface removed if needed, the site graded, and drainage set so water runs off instead of pooling.
A compacted base laid and rolled tight. This is the step that decides whether the pavement holds up.
Hot asphalt laid and compacted by a crew that works fast and clean, driveway or full parking lot.
1–2 days to cure before regular traffic, depending on the weather. We will tell you exactly when it is ready.
“Impressed. We definitely recommend working with Porter Sealcoating & Paving. The process was simple and easy… Porter came in at a competitive price. We really like the prep work they did to clean the driveway with motorized brushes. Porter was great at communicating. They were on time, quick, and did an excellent job leaving the site looking perfect.”
“Porter Sealcoating & Paving did a great job paving asphalt driveways at two of our residential properties. Professional crew, on-time arrival, top-quality workmanship, and a fair price.”
“We had Porter come out to give us an estimate on our driveway back in March since our existing asphalt was slowly falling apart. These guys did an amazing job on paving and sealing our brand new driveway… I wish all other contractors were as professional and as easy to work with as Porter Sealcoating & paving is.”
Porter walks the site himself and gives you a straight number, no pressure.
Size of the area, how much prep and grading it needs, and whether it is new base or a tear-out and repave over an old one. Site access matters too: a long rural driveway on a steep grade takes more time than a flat, easy-access lot. Every estimate starts with the owner walking the property before we quote a number.
Plan on 1–2 days before regular traffic, depending on the weather. We will give you exact guidance for your project before we leave the site, and let you know if it needs extra time to firm up.
About 20 to 25 years with regular care. That means sealcoating every 3–5 years and getting cracks filled before small problems turn into potholes. Skip the maintenance and that number drops fast.
If the base underneath is still solid and the damage is mostly on the surface, an overlay adds a fresh layer without the cost of starting over. If the base has failed, alligator cracking, potholes, or sinking spots, a tear-out and repave is the honest answer. We walk the site and tell you which one your property actually needs.
Late spring through early fall, when the ground is dry and it is warm enough for the asphalt to compact properly. Wet or near-freezing conditions make it hard to get a stable base, so winter jobs get scheduled carefully around dry weather windows.
Tell us about the driveway, lot, or road that needs paving. We will be in touch within 1 business day, and every estimate is free.
Tell us a little about the project and we’ll take it from there.
