When should you seal coat a new blacktop driveway?
Question:Just got it a week ago. When should it be sealed?
Answers:
Wait until fall, that way the driveway will be securely sealed before winter sets in!
The best product to seal driveways with is an oil-based sealer!
6 to 7 days after unless it rains and start the wait over again!
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when it looks bad after cleaning. Do it as often as you like. The coating is inexpensive.
There are two basic asphalt sealer products. One is a simple asphalt emulsion where regular asphalt is suspended in water. Water based asphalt sealers are earth-friendly as they do not cause ozone pollution. Perhaps the most popular asphalt sealer is a coal tar based product. Coal tar is a by-product distillate when coal is made into coke for the steel industry.
Coal tar asphalt sealers sport many advantages over their asphalt competitors. For one, they have built-in ultraviolet stabilizers and as such they stay blacker much longer than an asphalt-based sealer. Coal tar sealers are chemically different than asphalt and this difference allows them to resist damage from spilled gasoline, oil, brake and transmission fluids. These fluids can rapidly eat away at asphalt drives as well as asphalt sealers.
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