Blogs
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5 Cost-Effective Maintenance Tips to Extend The Life of Your Parking Lots
Large capital expenditures can impact your portfolio's maintenance budget in negative ways. The goal is always to drive down costs while extending the life of your assets. When learning how to be...
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Boost Your Asphalt Assets Through Capital Projects
Who would have imagined that we would encounter such a drastic challenge to our personal and professional lives? The pandemic's impact has slowed down the current scale for economic growth, but like...
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The Bottom Line Is The Better Value
Being responsible for a single commercial property or a national multi-site portfolio with connected parking areas requires careful attention towards how you want to attract clientele and how you...
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Plan Better To Build Better
Enhance your parking lots with a paving maintenance plan (PMP) Are you struggling to find a structured approach that can be molded and modified to your individual properties? A Pavement Maintenance...
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The Power of a Pavement Maintenance Plan
The power of a Pavement Maintenance Plan “A Pavement Maintenance Plan? Seriously? That’s ludicrous! Why would anyone want that?” “You just fix the cracks and potholes when it’s necessary, maybe put...
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Plan Your Way to be a Smooth Operator
So, let’s face it, working on your parking lot and sidewalks is a daunting task. There are very few times that are “good” to perform the work. Closing even part of your lot can create havoc, stress,...
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Keys to Seal Coating – Your Future Success
Number of Coats BlueSky recommends two coats normally as a best practice. If a long term PMP is in place, low traffic areas may be adequate with one coat. All high traffic areas should have a...
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Why Catch Basins and Manholes Fail in Parking Lots
Catch basins, AKA Storm Drains, deteriorate and fail due to a myriad of reasons. Sometimes they are installed incorrectly, but most often their failure is a slow, easy to control degradation. As...
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Don’t Crack Under the Pressure of Parking Lot Management!
Water is great for your grass and landscape. It is critical for your own personal health! But water is the enemy when it comes to your roads and parking lot. Your pavement cracks won’t go away...
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When and Why You Want to Mill and Overlay Your Parking Lot
As your parking lot ages, even with the most astute maintenance program you are eventually going to need to replace the surface or wearing course. A well-executed maintenance plan is focused on...
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Preserving Your Future
Let’s face it, the most obvious benefit of Pavement Preservation is extending the life of the pavement. Thereby saving significant capital expenditure over the life of your parking lot. But some not...
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Guiding Principles of How to Construct Your ADA Compliant Parking Stalls
Location, Location, Location Accessible spaces must connect to the shortest accessible route to the accessible building entrance or facility they serve. If a parking facility serves multiple...
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