Cabot, Arkansas
Commercial Asphalt in Cabot, AR
Commercial asphalt in Lonoke County: retail, school and church lots along the US 67/167 corridor through Cabot.
Cabot’s commercial property runs along US 67/167 and the streets feeding it, with a large school district and a substantial number of churches adding to the commercial surface. Those lot types have concentrated, predictable traffic, which makes both the wear pattern and the scheduling straightforward.
Arkansas Pavement runs the whole maintenance cycle: paving, patching and full-depth repair, crack filling, sealcoating and parking lot striping.
Commercial asphalt is priced off the surface itself, so the quote follows a walk of the property rather than a phone call. The estimate is free.
Concentrated traffic, predictable windows
A school lot takes its whole day’s traffic in two short bursts, and a church lot takes its whole week in one. That pattern is easier on asphalt than constant use, but it concentrates the wear in the bus lanes, the pickup loop and the entrances rather than spreading it across the parking field. It also creates genuinely quiet windows, which makes phasing the work simpler than on a lot that is busy all day.
Cabot is roughly an hour and ten minutes from the Hattieville yard, on the US 67/167 run through Jacksonville and Sherwood. Work in that direction is often planned together.
Cabot sits in Lonoke County. We work out of Hattieville, AR.
Not much fall to work with, and parking that arrived in pieces
The ground around Cabot has little relief, and low relief changes what drainage means on a parking lot. Not much help is coming from the site itself, so most of the work of moving water off the surface is done by the fall built into it when it was laid. That fall is deliberately slight, which is why settlement of a fraction of an inch is enough to slow it or turn it. The first sign is rarely anything a person would call a puddle. It is a section that is still dark an hour after the rest of the lot has dried out.
The other pattern here is parking that was added in stages. A church or a school that grew along with the town seldom has one lot. It has an original surface, an extension and an overflow area, each laid in a different year by whoever was working then, at different thicknesses and sometimes with different mixes. The seams between them are where water finds its way in, and the sections have aged at different rates since the day the second one went down. Reading that property as three surfaces with joints between them gets the sequence right.
On ground like this, the first thing worth walking is not the parking field but the places the water is meant to leave by. A lot with little fall depends on a few inlets, curb cuts and open edges to get rid of everything that lands on it, and those are exactly what a season of leaves, mower clippings and grit will close off without anybody deciding to let it happen. Once an outlet is shut, the fall built into the surface stops meaning much, because the water reaches the edge and then has nowhere to go. Clearing them is the smallest job on the property and it protects every other surface on it.
What we work on in Cabot
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School district property
Bus lanes, pickup loops and staff parking, where striping is doing a safety job.
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Churches
One heavy morning a week, and accessible stalls that need laying out correctly.
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Retail along the corridor
Entrances and drive lanes that take the turning load off the highway.
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Office and service
Compact lots where crack filling, sealing and striping cover the job.
Every service, one crew
Most lots need more than one of these, and the order they happen in matters. One crew covers all of it, so a single visit can handle more than one thing.
- Asphalt Paving New asphalt for commercial lots, drives and loading areas.
- Asphalt Crack Filling Sealing cracks before water reaches the base and turns them into potholes.
- Asphalt Sealcoating A protective coat that slows weather damage and restores a clean black finish.
- Asphalt Repair Patching and full-depth repair for potholes, failures and worn areas.
- Parking Lot Striping Layout, restriping and ADA markings that keep a lot legible and compliant.
Customer experiences
What customers say about the crew
5.0 from 19 Google reviews
Reviews from our Google Business Profile, listed under Brice Contracting, and under Straight and Narrow Striping before that. Same company, same crews, same phone number.
Brice Contracting did a great job sealcoating our driveway. Prompt, efficient, good communication, good price, thank you gentlemen!
Austin and his team communicated clearly on how repairs and seal coating would be done. This was a large project. They stayed within budget and had exceptional follow up.
Brice did an excellent job redoing our church parking lot, it looks so nice and clean. I highly recommend Brice Contracting for your job!
We needed some speed bumps installed in our parking lot. Brice made sure all of our needs were met, and went the extra mile to make us satisfied. His crew was timely, clean, and polite. On top of that, the work was done at a great price. Highly recommend.
Quality Work and Excellent Service! Austin was very communicative while developing the plan and executing the work.
Austin and Ethan showed up earlier than expected and took so much pride in their work. It looks amazing.
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Cabot questions, straight answers
Can school work be done over a break?
That is usually the right window, and it is worth booking early. Sealcoating and striping are both weather-bound, so a fixed break with a poor forecast leaves little room to move. Crack filling and patching are far more flexible if the seal has to wait for better conditions.
Do you lay out accessible stalls?
Yes. Accessible stalls, access aisles and fire lanes are part of a restripe, and they get laid out to the dimensions those markings call for rather than repainted wherever the faded ones happen to be.
We have a gravel overflow area. Can it be paved to match the lot beside it?
Yes, though the join is the part that decides how it goes. The new section has to tie into the existing surface at a cut edge rather than simply run up against it, or that line opens inside a year or two. The gravel area also needs its base prepared and compacted rather than covered over, because a surface is only ever as good as what sits under it. Once it is down, expect the two areas to age at different rates from then on, since one of them has a head start.
Our overflow lot is only used a few times a year. Does it still need maintaining?
It needs less of the traffic related work and about the same amount of the weather related work. Sun and water age asphalt whether or not anyone parks on it, and a lightly used surface usually collects grass and weeds in its joints, which pry them wider every season. On a lot like that, cleaning and crack filling matter more than keeping it on the same sealing cycle as the main parking. It is also the surface most likely to be forgotten until the one weekend a year it has to hold everybody.
The access drive up to our building is in worse shape than the lot. Why?
Because it takes every vehicle that visits, concentrated into two wheel paths, while the parking spreads that same traffic across a whole surface. Approach drives are also often built lighter than the lot they lead to, and where there is no curb the edges have nothing holding them, so they break away from the outside in. A drive is worth looking at and timing separately from the parking. The two are usually the same age and rarely in the same condition.
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Need a lot looked at in Cabot?
Call, or send the property details and someone will set a time to walk it. Commercial asphalt is priced off the surface itself, so the estimate happens on your ground and it is free.