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Lot Striping Regulations: Ensuring Your Parking Lot Is Accessible
Are you considering re-striping your company's parking lot? The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that accessible spaces must be provided when a business, state, or local entity re-stripes a parking lot. Here's how you can make sure your newly re-striped lot...
Angled or Straight: Which Parking Lot Layout is Right for You?
Having lot striping performed either on a new lot or as part of a redesign is more than simply laying down some paint. It takes time and care, designing the layout of your parking lot to maximize available space while providing your customers with a safe and...
Proper Lot Striping is Essential
Parking lots serve a vital role for customers, providing proper spaces, lanes, and safety areas for easy access to your business. Poorly striped – or completely unmarked – parking lots not only present as unprofessional, but can bring potential safety risks and...
Is There A Way To Delay Concrete Repair?
The Reasons You'd Want Concrete Repair Damaged concrete is unsightly at best. When the surfaces around a business are cracked and crumbling, it makes a silent statement about the company that is rarely complimentary. Not only is it not great to look at, but concrete...
How to Get Good Striping on Your Parking Lot
A parking lot provides the first impression for customers and is the first thing that could rile up hurried people. Faded or a complete lack of striping can cause a mess in front of your business. Any previous striping can fade for a number of reasons, from chemical...
Commercial Asphalt Work and Services
Here at A1 Professional Asphalt & Sealing, we are a family owned business that offers quality full-service commercial asphalt and concrete services for businesses all over the St. Louis, MO area. We provide many asphalt services including asphalt sealing and patching,...
Summer Is the Best Season for Asphalt Repairs
In the heat of the summer, it’s time for asphalt repairs and maintenance! With the sun high in the sky and snow storms nowhere in sight, you're bound to spot cracks left from the past winter all over your pavement. While they may seem harmless - albeit, unattractive -...
Does Your Commercial Property Need Concrete Repair? Signs to Look For
As a commercial property manager, you want to keep the exterior of your business aesthetically and structurally sound. This starts with the condition of the concrete around the property’s location. Over time, it's inevitable to experience general wear and tear, but...
Asphalt vs. Concrete: Here Are Some Key Things To Know
Whether you call it tarmac, macadam, bitumen or blacktop, the black, sticky, petroleum-based material is one option property managers and owners choose for commercial parking lots, roads, sidewalks, or other projects. But, when considering asphalt, it is wise to look...
The Truth about Oil on Asphalt and Needed Repairs
An asphalt parking lot is often a great option, but when it has completely lost its luster and smoothness, we may wish it were gone. However, the decision to tear the whole thing up and start over again is often prohibited because of cost or time constraints. But you...