What J&N does, and how each job actually runs
Six services, all of them driveway, lane and lot work. No guesswork about what is included — here is the sequence we follow on each one.
The list
Everything we’ll quote you for.
If it is not on this list, we do not do it. That is deliberate — we would rather be good at driveways, lanes and lots than available for everything.
Tar & Chip Driveways
Two layers of hot tar and chipped stone rolled into a hard, dark surface. The fix for a gravel lane you are tired of hauling rock to, and a lower-cost way to get a solid drive on a long rural run.
View 02Sealcoating
A coat of sealer over sound asphalt to keep water, weather and everyday wear off the surface. We patch and fill the cracks first — sealer on top of open cracks is wasted money.
View 03Crack Filling
Cracks are how water gets under a driveway. We clean them out and fill them so the base underneath stays dry, whether or not you seal the whole surface afterwards.
View 04Patching
Pot-holes, broken edges and failed spots cut out and filled. We pre-patch before tar and chip and before sealer, so the new surface has something solid to sit on.
View 05Grading & Base Prep
Nothing on top of a driveway lasts longer than the base under it. We run our own machine to grade, shape and compact the surface before a single drop of tar goes down.
View 06Millings & Resurfacing
Recycled asphalt millings hauled in, spread and compacted, or an existing surface resurfaced. A hard-wearing option for lanes, farm entrances and work yards.
ViewService 05
Grading & base prep
The part nobody photographs and everything depends on.
We bring our own machine in, cut the high spots, pull the material back into shape and compact it. On a gravel drive that means the ruts and the pothole pockets come out before anything is laid over the top. On a lot or a new entrance it means a shaped, compacted base that water runs off instead of sitting on.
It is also a service on its own. If all you need is a lane pulled back into shape, that is a job we will come out and do.
Service 04
Patching
Failed spots cut out and filled so the rest of the surface has something to hold on to.
Patching shows up twice in what we do. Sometimes it is the whole job — a pothole at the end of the drive, a blown-out edge where the mailbox turn is, a soft patch that keeps sinking. Sometimes it is step one of a bigger job.
Before a tar and chip surface goes down we pre-patch, because two layers of tar and chip will follow the shape of whatever is underneath them. Before sealer goes down we patch, because sealer is a coating, not a repair. Either way the patch comes first and the finish comes second.
Service 06
Millings & resurfacing
Recycled asphalt, hauled in with our own trailer.
Millings are asphalt that has already been ground off a road surface. Spread and compacted, they give you a hard, dark, hard-wearing driving surface without the cost of new material — which is why they turn up so often on farm entrances, long lanes and work yards.
Resurfacing is the same idea applied to a drive you already have: a new wearing surface over the old one rather than tearing the whole thing out.
Not sure which one you need?
Start with what the surface is doing.
It is gravel, and you keep adding rock
That is a tar and chip conversation. Grade it, pre-patch it, two layers of tar and chip, and you stop hauling rock.
It is asphalt, it is grey, and it is starting to crack
That is crack filling and sealcoating. The cracks get filled first, then the sealer goes over the top.
It is asphalt and there are holes in it
Patching, and then a decision about whether the rest of the surface is worth sealing or whether it wants resurfacing.
It holds water, or it has ruts you can feel from the truck
That is a grading problem, and no surface treatment will fix it until the shape is right.
If none of that sounds like yours, send a couple of photos and we will tell you straight what it needs.
Get a quote
Tell us what you’re dealing with.
Send the address, the surface you have now, and roughly how big it is. A couple of photos help more than anything.