How much does Sealcoating cost?

Using Coal Tar or Asphalt Emulsion Sealer, the average price to sealcoat your asphalt surface ranges from $0.17 - $0.25 per square foot. A number of factors can affect the sealcoating price:

• Mobilizations: The amount of phases the project can be completed to minimize disruption to your customers / tenants.
• Cleaning & Preparation: How dirty the parking lot is and how much cleaning will be involved using walk behind air blowers, power washer  and/or steel wire hand brooms. Pavement sealer requires asphalt to be 100% clean to adhere / perform properly. The amount of oil spots which require preparation and priming with a latex based oil spot primer.
• Layout Of The Parking Lot: Wide, open square asphalt parking lots and interior roadways without a lot of landscape islands, turns and other chopped up areas.
• Size Of The Asphalt Area To Be Sealcoated.

With the rising cost of Coal Tar and Asphalt Emulsion raw materials, fuel, insurance rates etc., if you are receiving prices for sealcoating under $0.17 a square foot, you are most likely going to receive a sub-standard project when complete.

• The sealcoating contractor can just apply one coat of pavement sealer instead of two
• The sealcoating contractor can dilute the material with excessive amounts of water, not mixing latex or silica sand with the pavement sealer
• The sealcoating contractor can employ low-cost labor found at day labor organization locations (Keep in mind, if a person working on your property gets injured and is not covered by workman’s compensation insurance- YOU MAY BE HELD LIABLE FOR ALL THEIR MEDICAL EXPENSES!)

A parking lot preventative maintenance plan (PMP), which involves sealcoating and hot rubberized crack sealing, is the ABSOLUTE best investment a property or facility manager can make. $0.25 cents per square foot spent TODAY will save $4.00 - $5.00 per square foot 10–15 years from now.