• Phone: (920) 204-6975

✦ Micro-surfacing

Preserve Aging Asphalt With a Durable Surface Treatment

PaveTech Solutions provides micro-surfacing for suitable parking lots, roads, drive lanes, and paved areas throughout Wisconsin. We assess pavement condition, cracking, rutting, surface wear, drainage, traffic, and structural suitability before determining whether micro-surfacing is appropriate.

Freshly microsurfaced asphalt driveway winding toward a red barn on a landscaped property.

How Micro-surfacing Preserves the Pavement Surface

Micro-surfacing is a thin, cold-applied pavement-preservation treatment made with polymer-modified asphalt emulsion, aggregate, water, mineral filler, and additives. It can help restore surface texture, improve friction and appearance, correct certain minor surface irregularities or shallow rutting, and slow surface deterioration without installing a conventional hot-mix asphalt overlay.

✦ Micro-surfacing Applications

Restore the Surface Without Full Reconstruction

Micro-surfacing works best on pavement that remains structurally sound but is beginning to show surface-level deterioration.

Commercial asphalt paving crew operating a paving machine beside an industrial building.

Surface Preservation

We apply micro-surfacing to suitable aging pavement to provide a new wearing surface and help protect asphalt showing oxidation, raveling, or general surface weathering.

Close-up of a smooth asphalt pavement surface after microsurfacing treatment.

Texture & Surface Correction

Micro-surfacing can improve surface texture and help create a more uniform finished surface on suitable worn or polished pavement.

Fresh microsurfacing applied to asphalt pavement, creating a smooth renewed driving surface.

Rut Correction & Preservation

Micro-surfacing can help correct certain shallow wheel-path ruts and preserve suitable pavement before more extensive rehabilitation is needed.

✦ Pavement Conditions

Signs Your Pavement May Be a Good Candidate

Micro-surfacing may be appropriate when pavement remains structurally serviceable but needs surface restoration or preventive preservation.

  • Faded or weathered asphalt

  • Minor surface raveling

  • Loss of surface texture

  • Shallow wheel-path rutting

  • Minor surface irregularities

  • Aging pavement without major structural failure

  • Pavement needing a more uniform wearing surface

  • Surfaces needing preservation before more extensive deterioration develops

✦ Our Process

How We Prepare and Apply Micro-surfacing

Evaluate

We review pavement condition, cracking, surface wear, rutting, drainage, traffic, and overall suitability for micro-surfacing.

Prepare

We clean the pavement and identify cracks, potholes, or failed areas that should be repaired before the surface treatment is applied.

Apply

Our team places the micro-surfacing mixture over the prepared pavement using specialized application equipment.

Cure & Reopen

We allow the treatment to properly set before reopening the surface to traffic based on material, weather, and site conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is micro-surfacing?

Micro-surfacing is a thin pavement-preservation treatment made with polymer-modified asphalt emulsion, aggregate, water, mineral filler, and additives.

What does micro-surfacing do?

It can improve surface texture, appearance, friction, minor surface irregularities, and help preserve suitable existing asphalt.

Is micro-surfacing the same as an asphalt overlay?

No. An asphalt overlay uses hot-mix asphalt to add a new pavement layer. Micro-surfacing is a thinner, cold-applied preservation treatment placed over suitable existing pavement.

Can micro-surfacing repair pavement rutting?

It can correct certain shallow wheel-path ruts when the pavement structure remains stable. Structural rutting requires a different repair approach.

Can micro-surfacing fix potholes or structural failures?

No. Potholes, significant cracking, base failure, and other structural problems should be repaired before micro-surfacing or treated with another rehabilitation method.

How do I know if my pavement is suitable for micro-surfacing?

Good candidates are generally structurally sound pavements showing surface aging, weathering, minor raveling, texture loss, or certain shallow surface irregularities.

When can traffic return after micro-surfacing?

Reopening time depends on the mixture, temperature, humidity, pavement conditions, and project requirements. Traffic should remain off the surface until the treatment has properly set.

✦ Preserve the Surface Before Heavier Rehabilitation Is Needed

Could Micro-surfacing Fit Your Pavement?

Tell us about the pavement condition, surface wear, rutting, cracking, and project goals. We’ll help determine whether micro-surfacing, repair, an overlay, or another pavement-preservation method fits the condition.

Professional pavement maintenance, repair, preservation, sealcoating, crack sealing, mastic repair, infrared repair, and line striping throughout Wisconsin.

PaveTech Solutions, Inc.

  • Phone: (920) 204-6975

  • 1103 S Lynndale Dr Ste 104, Appleton, WI 54914

Business hours

Monday–Friday: 7:00 AM–5:00 PM

Saturday–Sunday: Closed

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