Asphalt Seal Your Own Driveway!

hi I'm Dave strand everybody knows I run the best asphalt sealcoating company on the planet we're usually on big projects like this church but today I'm going to take you to a residential driveway and show you how you can save big money by sealcoating your own driveway today we're on a residential driveway I am going to show you step-by-step how to sealcoat your own driveway and save some money the very first thing you do is trim the grass and it's going over the edges of the driveway and for that we just use a weed whip the next thing we do is clean the vegetation out of the cracks and for that we'll just use our weed web [Music] the next step is to blow off the drive wing get the debris off the driveway you probably don't have a 13 horsepower billy-goat blower but a handheld blower designed for residential use will be just as good [Music] this next step is very critical ashphalt Sheila will not find two dirt and as you can see we couldn't get all the dirt off the driveway by just blowing it so we're going to have to power wash this one you probably don't have your own power wash truck like I do but a good residential power washer will work just fine we blew this driveway off with a 13 horsepower ability go blower and it still isn't clean enough for sealcoating and after power washing you can see how much dirt has collected in this water it's very very important that you get the driveway as clean as you can because asphalt sealer won't bond to a dirty surface the next thing you're going to want to do is let the driveway thoroughly dry just walk away from it for a couple hours after the driveway has thoroughly dried the next step is to fill the cracks now you probably don't have a hot rubberband er like I have but a good quality crack filler this one's from Home Depot will do just fine the next step is to choose a good quality rubberized asphalt sealer you can find these in most home stores or good hardware stores as file sealer is messy you're going to want to wear a pair of rubber boots or maybe an old pair of tennis shoes you can just throw away now that the driveway is thoroughly cleaned the cracks are filled it's time to start sealing the first thing we do is we cut the edges in with a soft bristled brush just like that nice and neat don't get any sealer on anything it doesn't belong on now it's time to start sealing the driveway we're just going to use this 12 inch squeegee I bought at Home Depot now we're going to pour two or three gallons of sealer on the asphalt pavement I spread it off with ice cream this is very crucial that you push the material off and pull it back making sure that all of the crevices fill I usually go up and down the driveway at least three times [Applause] at the end of the driveway we'll just run the opposite way so that we don't get any sealer out now we'll just finish the driveway off with our cotton brush nice neat clean even lines make the job of neat that's how you homeowners can get professional results at approximately half the cost I've got 15 gallons of sealer on this at $3 a gallon and a $15 squeegee this actually cost me about sixty dollars to do and my estimate for this homeowner was 135 nice job Dave thank you mrs. Carl you you

Channel: dave strand

Views: 8,008,602

Rating: 4.5228448 out of 5

Keywords: diy, do it yourself, pavement, maintenance, asphlat sealer, how to, asphalt, asphalt sealing, driveway, drive way, driveway repair, sealcoating, driveway resurfacing, seal driveway, sealing, sealing driveway, paving driveway, seal coat

Id: ESG-Erd_XsY

Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 26 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/roof01]

TIL I'd happily pay some $135 to seal my driveway. Good video tho.

[u/newtrawn]

What a fantastic teacher. I throughly enjoyed watching him.

[u/BRYYAN]

What a great promo. He is not only showing off his company but he's showing you you can do it was well. This also makes some say "yeah I don't wanna do that. I'll pay him. Looks good. "

[u/binkerfluid]

1) this guy was great

2) id totally fuck this up somehow, Im sure he makes it look so much easier than it is.

3) id probably pay full price for that

[u/pat1million]

I don't live in a place where asphalt driveways are even remotely common, but now I kinda wish I did.

Anyway, questions: what is the point of sealing asphalt in this manner? Also, why wouldn't somebody prefer to seal a fresh asphalt pavement instead?

[u/waxlrose]

You probably don't have this

[u/drphilgood]

That squeegee part was oddly satisfying

[u/lanemik]

Nice job, Dave.

[u/sweetalkersweetalker]

He does an awesome job of making this look like something I DON'T want to do, and would gladly pay someone else to do for me. Genius.