Kirby sits on the industrial east side of San Antonio, where the ground itself is the problem and older residential driveways crack straight through Blackland Prairie clay that swells after rain and shrinks back down in the heat. Your driveway was likely poured decades ago over a base that was never built to handle that cycle, and now it's showing it: alligator cracking, settlement, heaving, or water pooling at the garage after a hard storm.
San Antonio Asphalt Paving has been serving Kirby homeowners and commercial property managers since 2012. We know the clay, the drainage patterns, and the way a properly built asphalt surface with the right base and pitch will hold up through the wet-then-dry seasons that break so many driveways in this part of town. We show up local, we measure on site, and we give you honest guidance on whether your drive needs a patch, a fresh surface, or a full rebuild.
Asphalt Paving in Kirby (78219)
Kirby's driveway and parking lot problems are shaped by two things: the Blackland clay subgrade that moves with moisture, and the age of the housing stock. Single-car and double-wide residential drives poured in the 1960s and 1970s are all failing together now. Commercial aprons and lot edges crack where clay heave has lifted the pavement, and water runs toward foundations instead of away from them because the original pitch has settled. The fix starts with understanding what's underneath. A driveway that was built on bare clay or a thin, poorly compacted base will fail again if you just pour new asphalt on top of the old surface. We build a proper aggregate base, compact it to spec, and pitch the finished surface to shed water fast. That takes more than just a paver and a roller, but it's the difference between a driveway that lasts fifteen years and one that cracks in five.
Our team has been doing this work in Kirby and across the San Antonio area for over a decade. We understand the local soil, the way the city handles permits and inspections, and what it takes to build a drive that will hold.
Our services in Kirby
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- Driveway Repair in Kirby · A cracked driveway in San Antonio is usually the clay moving underneath…
- Pothole Repair & Asphalt Patching in Kirby · San Antonio potholes often start where flash-flood water pooled on a low spot.
- Asphalt Resurfacing & Overlay in Kirby · A San Antonio driveway with a sound base but a tired surface is a good…
- Asphalt Milling & Removal in Kirby · Full removal comes into play when a San Antonio driveway's clay-heaved base…
- Driveway Replacement in Kirby · Once San Antonio clay has cracked a driveway past patching…
- Parking Lot Paving & Construction in Kirby · Commercial lots in San Antonio take a summer of loaded traffic before the base…
- Parking Lot Repair & Resurfacing in Kirby · Summer traffic ruts a San Antonio parking lot long before the clay underneath…
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- Tar & Chip Driveways in Kirby · Tar and chip gives a Hill Country driveway texture and grip over uneven…
- Gravel Driveway Installation & Grading in Kirby · Gravel and caliche lanes are common on San Antonio's Hill Country fringe where…
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How a Job Works in Kirby
We start with a free on-site visit. We measure your driveway or lot, look at the subgrade and drainage, talk through what's failed and why, and give you a written estimate with tonnage and thickness specs so you know exactly what you're paying for. No surprises, no upsell.
When you're ready, our crew handles the work. If your drive needs base repair or grading, we do that first, proof-roll the base to make sure it's compacted, and then lay the asphalt. For a resurfacing job on an older drive, we mill off the failed surface, inspect what's underneath, and lay new asphalt over a sound base. If your lot or apron sits tight to the street or a property line, we work within those constraints and coordinate with any HOA requirements or city inspections that apply.
When we're done, we sweep and clean the site. You get a finished drive that sheds water, holds under load, and won't settle or crack the way the old one did.
Pricing for driveway paving in Kirby starts around 6 dollars per square foot for new installation, and resurfacing runs from about 4 dollars per square foot, depending on what the base looks like and how thick we need to go. A pothole or small patch repair starts at 450 dollars. A full driveway replacement, where the base is compromised and needs to come out, runs from 7 dollars per square foot. For parking lots and commercial aprons, we provide a free estimate on site so we can account for drainage, traffic load, and local code requirements. The real cost drivers are square footage, base condition, site access for the paver and roller, and how much grading or milling the job needs. Call us at (210) 485-4679 for a free written estimate. We'll tell you what the job costs and why.
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