Asphalt
Asphalt Paving
Driveways, roads and new construction, built from the base up for ground that moves under a Hill Country sky.
Chapter 01
The base decides the driveway
Burnet County sits on the edge of the Llano Uplift, where granite and caliche run close to the surface under thin soils. Central Texas swings between long dry stretches and sudden flash floods, and that cycle is what opens cracks and undermines a base that was not built right the first time. Before any asphalt goes down, we grade the site to move water away from the pavement instead of letting it pool and work into the base course.
A quote written from the truck without walking the ground is a guess dressed up as a number. We look at the existing base, the drainage path and how the site slopes before we say what a job costs, because that is what actually decides whether an asphalt surface holds for eight years or twenty.
A Hinds Paving crew member running a ride-on roller over fresh asphalt in front of a Central Texas home, two crew members watching
Driveway and road installation
For a driveway, that means clearing the site, cutting and grading to a base that sheds water, and building a compacted flexible base sized to the ground it sits on and the traffic it will carry. Hot mix asphalt goes down in a lift, then a roller compacts it while it is still workable, because compaction after the mix has cooled does very little for the surface.
The same approach applies at road scale, just with a wider base section and more attention to how water crosses or follows the run. Asphalt road installation and new asphalt construction both start the same way this driveway work does: get the grade and the base right, then build the surface on top of it.
Chapter 03
New construction, start to finish
New asphalt construction on undeveloped ground carries its own questions. Caliche pockets and thin soils do not behave the same way across a single site, so the base has to be built to what is actually under the ground in each section, not to a single spec applied uniformly across the whole job.
We are a certified Historically Underutilized Business with the State of Texas, which matters on public sector or municipal work with that requirement attached. Residential and commercial jobs both get the same on-site look before a number is given.
Built to move with the ground, not against it
Asphalt is more forgiving of ground movement than concrete, which matters on soils that swell and shrink with the wet-dry swing this part of Texas gets every year. That flexibility is an advantage as long as the base underneath it was built to handle the load and the water, not a shortcut around building the base properly.
Estimates are free and carry no obligation, and we come look at the actual site before quoting it. Third generation and woman owned, working across Burnet County and Central Texas since 1977.
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