Asphalt Paving
Hot mix asphalt paving from the ground up for homes, businesses, churches and towns: the site graded for drainage, the base put down and compacted, then hot mix laid and rolled while it is hot.
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Spanish Fort sits on high ground above the Blakeley River, where the river enters Mobile Bay. The city incorporated in 1993, and the 2020 Census counted 10,049 people, up 47.8 percent from 2010. Homes sit on sandy ridges and on the hills and bluffs, while shopping centers, churches and schools add big lots. Each kind of ground needs its own grading and base work before any asphalt goes down.
3M Paving and Excavation is based in Grove Hill, and our second yard in Robertsdale is a short drive away. Here we lay hot mix for asphalt driveways and parking lot paving. We also sealcoat, patch, crack fill and stripe pavement that is already down. Call or text (251) 589-9970, and we will come out, look at the job and give you a written quote.
Tell us about the driveway, lot or road. We come out, look at the job and give you a written quote.
Spanish Fort's Civil War forts fell to Union troops in 1865, and Historic Blakeley State Park lies north of town. The same hills and bluffs shape driveway work today. Soil survey maps show hillsides around town with slopes of 8 to 25 percent, most of them mapped as eroded. The ridge tops are deep sand that drains fast but needs a firm, compacted base to hold an edge.
On a hillside drive, rain runs down the pavement and off the edges, and it can wash out the shoulders. So we grade the drive to send water off to the sides. Where water has to cross, a ditch or a culvert carries it. The base goes down and gets compacted, and the hot mix is laid and rolled while it is hot.
The city had about 1,000 more homes in 2020 than in 2010. On a newer drive that is still sound, sealcoating and crack filling help keep water out of the surface. Where the base under an older drive has failed, the drive comes out and gets rebuilt from the ground up. The quote spells out the thickness, the base work and the square footage for your job.
The NOAA weather station at the Mobile airport, across the bay, averages about 66 inches of rain a year. It also logs about 65 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter. On a slope, that rain runs fast and can carry loose sand off the shoulders of a drive.
Toward the Blakeley River and the delta, the soil maps show very poorly drained muck. Some of that low ground floods often. When water sits in the base, the asphalt above it cracks and then breaks into potholes.
Where the base has failed, asphalt patching digs out that spot and rebuilds it with hot mix. If the surface is worn but the base is still solid, an asphalt overlay adds a fresh layer on top. After we look at the pavement, we tell you which fix fits.
US-90 runs through town as Spanish Fort Boulevard, and I-10 passes just south with exits 35 and 38. Eastern Shore Centre, an open-air shopping complex, opened in 2004. Spanish Fort Town Center is another big part of the city's commercial growth. Offices, stores and churches across the city have lots of their own.
Baldwin County Public Schools runs three elementary schools, a middle school and a high school that serve the city. A new elementary school opened in 2022. Drive lanes that carry trucks and buses get a heavier section than the parking stalls, and the quote shows both. We plan the work in phases with you, so part of a lot can stay open while we pave.
After paving, parking lot striping marks the stalls, arrows, fire lanes and crosswalks. Accessible spaces and aisles follow the 2010 ADA Standards, which apply when a business restripes. For a work yard or a storage lot, asphalt millings or crush and run can be enough. We deliver both by the load and grade and roll them in place.
It depends on who owns the road in front of your property. Inside the city limits, the City of Spanish Fort Building Department issues land disturbance permits. If a site disturbs 1,000 square feet or more, that permit must be approved before a building permit. Ask the Building Department what your job needs before work starts.
The city is a Phase II MS4 community, and its Building Department enforces storm water and erosion control rules. That matters on hillside lots, where bare dirt can wash downhill in a heavy rain.
A new driveway or lot entrance onto US-90, US-98 or AL-225 needs an ALDOT turnout permit. Outside the city, Baldwin County sets the driveway rules on county roads. Its rules call a drive serving two to four homes major residential, and five or more homes commercial. We do the grading and culvert work that goes with the paving, built to whichever rules apply.
Communities and areas we serve around Spanish Fort: Spanish Fort Boulevard, Battleship Parkway, Bridgehead, Fort McDermott, Blakeley, Bromley, Malbis, The AL-225 corridor.
Spanish Fort ZIP codes served: 36527.
We work throughout Baldwin County and the area around it.
(251) 589-9970 Hot mix asphalt paving from the ground up for homes, businesses, churches and towns: the site graded for drainage, the base put down and compacted, then hot mix laid and rolled while it is hot.
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New asphalt driveways, gravel drives paved over and worn out drives replaced. We grade for drainage, build the base, then lay hot mix asphalt and roll it hot.
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New parking lots, replacements and resurfacing for businesses, churches, schools and clinics. Graded to drain, based and compacted, then paved in hot mix asphalt.
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We build and rebuild private roads, subdivision streets and shared driveways in hot mix asphalt. The road gets graded, crowned and based first, so water leaves it instead of sitting in ruts.
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Sealcoating for asphalt driveways and parking lots across south Alabama. The pavement is cleaned, the cracks are filled, and the sealer goes on while the weather holds.
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We patch potholes and failed areas on driveways, parking lots and private roads. Hot-pour crack filling keeps water out of the base before it opens a hole.
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Hot-pour crack filling and crack sealing for asphalt driveways, parking lots and private roads in south Alabama. Each crack is blown out, cleaned and dried before the hot rubberized material goes in.
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Parking lot repair and maintenance for businesses, churches, schools, apartments, HOAs and towns across south Alabama. We patch potholes, fill cracks, fix standing water, sealcoat and restripe, in phases we plan with you.
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Asphalt resurfacing lays a new layer of hot mix over pavement that is still sound underneath. We level the low spots and rebuild the failed areas before the new layer goes on.
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Great service and great results.
Very good service. Had the church parking lot cracks sealed, recoated and new stripping added. Every one was very professional and job was completed in a timely fashion. We would recommend 3M paving.
A few of the questions we hear most around Spanish Fort. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Tell us about the driveway, lot or road, and where it is. Call or text (251) 589-9970 or send the form, and we will set a time to come look at it.
Tell us about the driveway, lot or road. We come out, look at the job and give you a written quote.