Driveway sealcoating in Martis Camp.

What the work involves

Sealcoating a driveway means cleaning the surface, treating what needs treating, sealing the cracks, and rolling OverKote sealer over the top. It is the coating that takes the sun and the plow wear instead of your asphalt taking it.

Why it matters at this elevation

The point of sealing at this elevation is water. Every drop that soaks into asphalt is a candidate for freezing, and frozen water expands and breaks pavement from the inside. Sealer keeps most of that water on the surface where it can drain away, and it takes the plow and sun wear that would otherwise land on the asphalt itself.

Pavement in this range spends a long stretch under snow and then a long stretch cycling between melt and overnight refreeze. The refreeze does the damage. Water that ran into a crack at two in the afternoon is ice by nine at night, and ice takes up more room than the water did.

How the job runs

The order of operations is what makes it last. The surface gets cleaned down to sound pavement, oil spots get treated so the sealer will bond over them, cracks get sealed first, and then the coating goes on. Skipping prep is how a sealcoat ends up peeling inside a year.

Martis Camp pavement specifically

The pavement here is newer than most of what we maintain, and it is held to a standard. Long private drives, association roadways, and amenity lots where finish quality is part of the point. Newer asphalt is exactly the pavement that pays the most from staying on a maintenance cycle instead of waiting for problems.

Estate driveways here are long, architect-designed, and expected to look flawless — which makes disciplined maintenance cheaper than any repair. Martis Camp is the Truckee area’s premier gated community, and the Martis Camp Community Association is a Sutton Co.

Sealing is the part of the program that shows, but it only earns its keep on pavement that is still structurally intact. That assessment comes before the price.

Martis Camp sits at roughly 6,000 feet, and the pavement around it behaves accordingly. More on the area on our Martis Camp service area page. We work the same corridor across the Truckee area, and the pavement guides go deeper on the physics if you want it.

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