Serving Portland, Gresham, Vancouver & Surrounding Areas
New driveways, campus and commercial lots, and asphalt repair for Forest Grove, including the historic streets where access is tight.
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Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving serves Forest Grove, the first city incorporated in Washington County back in 1872 and still the west end of the Tualatin Valley. We work the length of Pacific Avenue downtown, the neighborhoods off Highway 47, and out toward Gales Creek and Dilley where the lots get larger and the driveways get longer.
Forest Grove has more historic housing stock than anywhere else on the west side. The Clark Historic District covers eighteen blocks with homes dating to 1854, and Painter’s Woods adds more. Paving in those neighborhoods is a different job: narrow original driveways, mature trees with established root systems, and often no room to swing a truck. We do a lot of hand work in those blocks, and we would rather quote the job honestly at what the access actually costs than show up and discover we cannot get equipment in. Pacific University adds institutional lots on the other end of the scale, where the work is large, scheduled around the academic calendar, and needs ADA layout done correctly.
Nearby we also serve Cornelius, OR, Hillsboro, OR and Aloha, OR. See every city we cover on our service areas page.
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We deliver exceptional results backed by transparent pricing and a commitment to quality.
Eighteen blocks of the Clark Historic District were laid out long before anyone planned for a paving truck. We quote access honestly, bring smaller equipment where the site needs it, and do the hand work those driveways require rather than pricing the job to avoid it.
Campus and commercial lots get phased around your calendar. We keep access open, sequence the work so you never lose the whole lot, and handle ADA stalls and access aisles to current requirements as part of the same visit.
One team runs the job end to end. No subcontractor gaps between grading and paving. Everything we install in Forest Grove carries a 1-year warranty on our workmanship.
A written proposal with the scope and the price, base and drainage itemized. If we open the site and find the base is worse than it looked, you hear about it before we spend your money on it.
Every job in Forest Grove gets the same crew, the same materials and the same walk-through, whether it is a single driveway or a full commercial lot.
We offer a full range of asphalt paving and maintenance services to keep your property safe and looking its best.
New asphalt driveways and parking areas across Forest Grove. A driveway starts well below the surface: excavation, a graded and compacted aggregate base, drainage that moves water off rather than holding it, then asphalt laid and rolled at temperature. On Forest Grove properties the base and the grading do most of the work. Get those right and the driveway lasts; get them wrong and no amount of surface quality saves it. We handle new construction, full replacements where a driveway has failed, and commercial paving for parking areas and private access.
On existing asphalt, sealcoating and crack sealing are what keep water out of the base, and in the Tualatin Valley that is most of the battle. Sealcoat blocks UV, rain and vehicle fluids, and brings the color back. Crack sealing is the higher-value of the two: sealing a crack while it is a quarter inch wide costs a fraction of repairing the pothole it turns into. We will tell you honestly when a Forest Grove surface is still worth maintaining and when it has gone past that point.
Parking lot layout and restriping for Forest Grove businesses, including ADA stalls and access aisles to current requirements, fire lanes, crosswalks, numbered stalls and custom stencils. A lot striped to the wrong dimensions is non-compliant no matter how clean the paint looks, so we lay it out properly rather than tracing over whatever was there before. We also install speed bumps, wheel stops, signs and posts.
Potholes, spreading cracks and edges that have started to break up all get worse quickly once water is in the base. We handle crack sealing, patching, saw-cut and full-depth repairs, grinding, and base repair on Forest Grove driveways and lots. Timely repair is the cheapest work in this trade, and we would rather do a repair now than a replacement in three years.
We make your asphalt project as simple and transparent as possible.
We discuss what you need and visit your Forest Grove property to assess the existing surface, check the base and take measurements.
You receive a detailed, easy-to-understand proposal with straightforward pricing and no hidden fees.
Our team arrives fully equipped to prepare the site, including cleaning, grading, and ensuring proper drainage.
Our crew lays and compacts the asphalt at temperature, using the right equipment for the size of the job.
We conduct thorough cleanup and perform a final walk-through to ensure your complete satisfaction.
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Answers to common questions about paving and asphalt work in Forest Grove.
Yes. Those blocks were laid out from 1854 onward and the driveways reflect it, so access is the first thing we assess. We bring smaller equipment where the site requires it and do the hand work rather than pricing the job out of reach. What we will not do is quote it as a standard driveway and then discover on the day that the truck cannot get in.
Often, yes, and it is worth knowing before you start. Established roots under an old driveway are usually the reason it failed, and paving over them just puts the crack in a new surface. Where we can address the root within what the tree and the city allow, we do, and we rebuild the base so the new surface has something sound underneath. Where we cannot, we will tell you what that means for how long the repair lasts.
Paving installs a new asphalt surface. It is the right answer for new construction, or for a driveway or lot whose base has failed and cannot be saved from the top. Sealcoating is preventative maintenance: a protective layer applied over existing asphalt that shields it from UV, rain and vehicle fluids. Paving builds or rebuilds the surface, sealcoating protects one that is still sound. Neither substitutes for the other.
Every two to three years for most Forest Grove properties, and crack sealing whenever a crack appears rather than on a schedule. Our regional rainfall is the reason the interval is shorter here than in drier parts of the country. Water getting into the base is what ends asphalt, and sealcoat plus crack sealing is what keeps it out. New asphalt is the exception and needs to cure before its first coat.
Normally within about 24 to 72 hours depending on temperature and how thick the section is, and we give you a specific answer for your job before we leave. Full curing takes considerably longer. For the first several weeks avoid parking in the same spot for long periods, turning the wheels of a stationary vehicle, and putting down jack stands or trailer jacks without a board under them.
