Asphalt Paving in Chatsworth, GA

Driveway resurfacing and parking lot paving in Chatsworth

The median home in Chatsworth was built in 1995, and nearly two in three homes in town are detached houses. About two in three occupied homes are lived in by their owners. If your drive went in with the house, it may be cracked or crumbling at the edges by now.

Asphalt resurfacing puts a new layer of hot mix over a drive whose base still holds. We level the low spots first and keep the new asphalt flush at the garage, the walk and the street. For a pothole, a washed-out edge or a utility cut, asphalt repair may be enough. When patching is no longer money well spent, we tell you and price an overlay or replacement instead.

US 76 and US 411 run through the center of town on Third Avenue. For a shop on that stretch, parking lot paving can mean a new lot, a rebuild or an expansion. If the business has to stay open, we plan the work in phases with you.

Once a lot is paved, parking lot striping marks the stalls, arrows, crosswalks and fire lanes. Accessible spaces and their access aisles get marked too. A sound lot with faded lines may only need sealcoating and fresh striping. Before the sealer goes on, the pavement is cleaned, cracks are filled and oil spots are treated.

Why does the base matter so much in Chatsworth?

Chatsworth sits on the eastern edge of the Valley and Ridge, just west of the mountains. GA 52 climbs east out of town past Fort Mountain State Park, about 7 miles out. On the hillsides below Fort Mountain, a drive can be steep. Steep mountain drives are part of our work, including one about 1,200 feet long that took two days to pave.

Chatsworth holds Georgia's coldest recorded temperature: 17 degrees below zero on January 27, 1940. Even in a normal January, the average low here is about 30 degrees. The town also averages more than 57 inches of rain a year.

When water seeps into cracks and freezes, it expands and strains the pavement and the base below it. As the ice melts, it leaves hollow spaces, and the asphalt starts to break up under traffic. That is why drainage and the stone base come first here.

Before any hot mix goes down, we grade the site so water drains away. Where water has to cross the drive, a drain pipe goes under it. The stone base goes down in layers and is compacted. Our LeeBoy paver lays a base course and a top course, and our rollers compact the hot mix.

Long gravel drives, farm lanes and plant lots in Murray County

Murray County had 39,973 people at the 2020 census, and its median home was built in 1993. More than one in four homes in the county is a mobile home. About three in four occupied homes are lived in by their owners. On a rural lot, the drive may run a long way back from the road on gravel.

If your drive is gravel now, paving it means no more mud, no more dust. We have paved gravel driveways of 1,000 feet and more. Farm driveways that run between pasture fences are another kind of drive we pave. A parking pad or a turnaround at the house can be paved in the same job.

For a long rural drive, we can also price tar and chip paving, sometimes called chip seal. Liquid asphalt is sprayed on a prepared base, and stone chips are spread over it and rolled in. It gives the look of a country road with a hard surface. A private road or a shared drive serving several homes falls under road paving.

Carpet and textile manufacturing drove Murray County's growth. At a plant lot or a truck yard, we build a heavier section where trucks run than where cars park.

Who approves a driveway that meets the road in Chatsworth?

It depends on who owns the road. US 76, US 411, GA 52 and GA 225 are state routes. Georgia DOT requires a permit before construction work in a state highway right-of-way. On those roads, GDOT's permit inspector advises on where the drive goes and the size of any pipe under it.

Off a county road, you fill out a driveway permit at the Murray County Public Works Department. In Eton, the county's permit guide says Murray County processes all applications.

Inside the Chatsworth city limits, that guide sends permit applications to the city's zoning administrator at City Hall. Chatsworth has its own Public Works department, so ask the city about a drive onto a city street first. Whoever owns the road, its driveway rules apply, and we build to them.