"MarkL" wrote in message
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On May 2, 8:46 pm, "Shopdog" wrote:
This is our first home and we have an asphalt driveway, to me it looks
OK,
but does seem to have lost its sheen over the past two years. I see
driveway
coating at the big box stores.
So my question is:

When do I need to retop the drive
Why would I have to do this
What is the best way to do this

Thanks for any answers

Searcher

I found that I could hire someone cheaper than I could buy the
materials. They come with a tank truck that drives down the driveway
spraying the sealer on and a couple guys walk behind it. They were
gone in 30 minutes. They also sand the larger cracks.

Really? Wow. I hope you didn't get taken by "travelers" painting driveways
(a la "The Riches"). Around here, the lowest estimate I could get was $900
for my sealing driveway, and the materials only cost me $150. It took me
nearly 2 days to do it (wide, long driveway), but I was getting MUCH faster
by the end, both at mixing up the mess and applying it. I'm sure I can do it
in one day next time. That didn't include the time spent patching the cracks
the previous week, but that only took about an hour.