Walmart Asphalt Patching, Hillsborough NC

Patching is the repair that keeps a big-box lot trading. Failed areas are cut out and replaced one at a time, so the rest of the property stays open while the work happens, which is not an option once a lot needs resurfacing end to end.

The sequence is visible across these photographs. The failed area is marked out first, and that outline sets the saw cut. Cutting square matters: a clean vertical face gives the new material something to bond against, where a feathered edge is where a patch begins to fail. The failed asphalt then comes out, the base underneath is checked and compacted, and hot mix goes back in and is rolled flush with the surface around it.

A store this size takes delivery traffic along fixed service routes and concentrated turning loads at its entrances, and those are the places where the surface gives out first.