Asphalt Edges: How To Finish Asphalt Edges

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One question I’m often asked by homeowners is “How Are The Asphalt Edges finished? What should they look like?

In this video, I cover everything you need to know about asphalt edges.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

00:00 - Intro To Asphalt Edges
00:49 - #1 - The Asphalt Edge Itself
02:36 - Two Advantages Of Compacted Edges
03:05 - The Shoulder Of The Asphalt
03:50 - How Should Shoulders Be Addressed
04:30 - Two Clear Advantages Of Edging The Shoulders
05:20 - A Much Needed Conversation With Your Contractor
05:42 - Compacted Edges And Shouldering Combined
05:53 - Landscaping
06:14 - How To Properly Install An Asphalt Driveway Video

[dc-wpoc]

Love it. Down to earth and no BS and well presented.

[laurabarnham]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Our home was just finished in November and we just have a stone driveway and parking area. We are having it paved and I was concerned about the edges and how they should be finished. It seems if you get it "shouldered" well- it doesn't matter so much about the edges. What I DON"T want it those side cracks from FedEx or UPS drivers going over the edge.

[CarriUSA]

Glad I found your video on shoulders. Our driveway ( Wisconsin) winds up a hill ( 500 feet long) with steep edges to the driveway. We went with having the former asphalt milled for a base, compacted and just been asphalted. We prepped by adding ripwrap and aggregates all along the driveway. We thought we had it pretty high…. thought we did a great job. Well the milling base ended up 13” high and that much higher than the the ground and now asphalted even higher as they probably should have trucked out more of the milled asphalt? We are a bit perplexed on how we should properly backfill the shoulder and dirt will only erode and how long after asphalting ( done yesterday) should we wait to fill in the shoulder? Did not expect it to be that high! Thanks and for your video!

[BNM]

My driveway has curved and broken pieces off the edges- I'm thinking of just putting a straight piece of 2 x 4 and adding asphalt patching to it. Hopefully it makes everything straight again.

[bonniewood]

Are cement edges better to then hold the asphalt in place?

What are these edges called when contracting this?

[brenyz]

I have paved meny meny driveways . it’s all about money when possible a driveway should be at least 14 foot wide. This way you don’t drive off the edges in the first place but every customer insist on 10 foot wide to save money and they insist on getting many many estimates, and finding the cheapest guy. so now the good companies have to lower their prices to be competitive to a guy that gave us satellite estimate and then of course he goes to the job and jacks up the price plus most of the time you get to a driveway and you don’t know how the base is until you put the paving machine on it and manipulate the ground grading it Now you’re in a position where it really needs to be reinforced with Stone or asphalt but you did not get enough money for the job in the first place so now you just have to do your best. When really it needs to be all dug out and 6 inches of stone put in and then left for a good month but then the job turns into two days and the paving contractor loses money. if you give the correct price to begin with you don’t get the job the cheap guy does.

[brianthommo]

My Roller has a " edge wheel "on it, i can lower up and down and it has a water jet on it, but it only works well on straight roads.

[jharmon]

Always tamp the edges before and after top surface is rolled and just after paved while hot unless its a highway. Raker should be on each side behind screed. Then push rock up to edge to hide edge after.

[simd]

Whats best for edges- gravel, dirt or recycled asphalt

[asphaltking]

Absolutely wrong. It is necessary to compact the edges. Asphalt gets its strength from compaction. The edges will crumbles and break alot easier if they are not compacted.

[sp]

A rake man isnt doing much anyway, and it doesn't nend the rake.