Asphalt Paving in Milliken, CO

Asphalt paving in Milliken is mostly about homes, and most of them are young. The town had 2,888 residents in 2000, 5,610 in 2010 and 8,386 in 2020, and its 2020 median age was just 31.9. There was an earlier housing boom in the late 1960s and early 1970s too, so a slice of town has driveways that have seen fifty Colorado winters.

Streets paved in the 1980s

Milliken's own town roads were paved in 1985 and 1986. Before that, it was a farming community built around a trading post on the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern Railroad, which was abandoned in 1917. The town was incorporated on October 1, 1910, and named for Judge John D. Milliken. Two large potato decks went up in the 1950s.

Older driveways

For driveways from the 1970s boom, the base is often the issue. Thin gravel, decades of water through cracks and clay below add up to alligator cracking and low spots. An overlay rarely holds on that kind of base. We dig out the failed sections, rebuild the base and repave, or replace the whole driveway if most of it has failed.

Newer subdivisions

On driveways built since 2000, the work is mostly maintenance: crack sealing, sealcoating once the surface has faded, and fixing drainage where landscaping sends water onto the pavement. Settling at the garage joint and along edges is common where lot fill was not fully compacted.

Weld County access

Outside town limits, Weld County handles driveway access permits through its E-Permit Center. Applications need four photos of the access point, taken looking both ways down the road, toward the access and across the road. If a paved access will connect to a paved county road, a right-of-way permit with insurance and a traffic control plan may also be needed. We check this before any rural work is scheduled.

What a replacement involves

On a full replacement we remove the old asphalt, dig out soft clay, bring in and compact new base, and pave hot-mix to the thickness in your quote. HomeGuide lists new asphalt driveways at about $5 to $12 or more per square foot. Angi lists removal and replacement at $8 to $15 per square foot. Your written estimate breaks out each part.

Drainage on flat lots

Much of Milliken is flat farm ground, and flat lots do not drain on their own. We set enough slope on the driveway to move water to the street or a side yard, and check that downspouts do not empty onto the pavement.

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