Asphalt paving contractor software, shown on a fictional asphalt paving company

Open the demo and you are inside Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat, a fictional asphalt paving company running the real product: click anything, nothing changes.

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What works today for a paving company, and what is not available yet

The demo's welcome card says the same. The names, people, jobs and prices in this demo are illustrative.

The paving jobs in the demo

Each with what its estimate covers and how it is billed:

• Kimura driveway sealcoat and crack fill — Driveway sealcoat, two coats, with crack fill (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Day-before notice: cars out and sprinklers off → Crack fill and sealcoat.
  Daily log: “Blew out and filled the cracks, primed three oil spots and put down two coats of sealer. Barricaded the driveway and left the aftercare card in the door.”
• Villanueva driveway paving, 2,400 SF — Remove and replace the driveway, 2,400 SF, 2.5 in compacted (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Two cars to move by 7; the gate code is with the office.
• Tansywold Business Center mill and overlay — Mill and overlay, 3,100 SY, with restripe (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Night work in two phases; the loading dock stays open.
  Schedule: Tenant notices and no-parking signs → Mill Section A and the drive lanes → Tack and pave Section A and the drive lanes → Restripe the lot to the layout.
• Larkmoor Community Church lot restripe — Restripe the main lot and the fire lane (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Restripe stalls, accessible stalls and arrows.
  Daily log: “Blew off the lot and restriped to the church's layout. Layout notes: 120 standard stalls, 6 accessible stalls (2 van-accessible), 8 arrows and the fire-lane curb; counts written on the layout sheet.”
• Ferrante pothole patching — Hot-mix pothole repair, time and materials (Time & Materials)
  Schedule: Cut, tack and patch five potholes.
  Daily log: “Cut square, tacked and filled five potholes along the shop driveway; rolled each patch and swept up.”
• Elkmere Commons HOA lot sealcoat — Crack fill, sealcoat and restripe, three lots (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Crack fill all three lots → Sealcoat lots A to C, two coats → Restripe after the sealer cures.

Walk through one paving job: Villanueva driveway paving, 2,400 SF

Its schedule, in order:

1. Utility locate ticket called in
2. Apron permit from the city
3. Remove the old asphalt and haul it off
4. Base repair, fine grade and compact
5. Pave the surface course
6. Walkthrough and aftercare with the owners

Change orders on this job: “Dig out and rebuild the soft spot by the garage”.

Purchase orders on this job: “Aggregate base, 20 tons, Villanueva”; “Hot mix surface course, 37 tons, Villanueva”.

To-dos on this job: “Drop the aftercare card and kickstand pads at the Villanueva house”.

From its daily log:

• Removed the old driveway and the apron and hauled it to the recycler. Soft spot in the base by the garage; sent CO-1 to the owners and they approved it on site. Weather: Clear, cool morning.
• Dug out the soft spot, placed base, fine graded and compacted. Load tickets for the base are with the job folder; photos of the base by section. Weather: Overcast, light wind. Delays: Weather hold: started two hours late while the surface dried after overnight rain.
• Plant order confirmed for 37 tons of surface course. First trucks on site early; checking the mat on every load and keeping the load tickets for the yield count. Weather: Sunny, calm.

A paving proposal in the demo: Parking lot maintenance by section

Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat sent it to a lead. The scope reads:

Clean and crack fill all three sections, prime the oil spots, two coats of sealer with a third coat in the drive lanes, and restripe to the existing layout. Night work in two phases.

The notes on that lead:

• Facilities manager asked for crack sealing, sealcoat and a restripe
• Walked the lot by section and measured the cracks; photos by section
• Sent the section-by-section proposal

Other paving leads in the demo

• Driveway reseal: Sealed her driveway before; wants it resealed and the new cracks filled; Measured 1,300 SF and about 150 LF of cracks
• Pothole repair: Potholes at the bottom of his driveway after the winter
• Mill and overlay with restripe: Property manager asked for a condition walk of both lots and a budget

What goes on a paving estimate in the demo

From Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat's price list, without the prices:

• Mobilization
• Right-of-way permit
• Traffic control, cones and signs
• Asphalt removal and haul-off
• Milling, 2 in
• Aggregate base, supplied and compacted
• Fine grade and compact
• Tack coat
• Hot mix asphalt, base course
• Hot mix asphalt, surface course
• Full-depth patch, 6 in
• Pothole repair, hot mix
• Patch crew, per hour
• Hot-pour crack fill
• Oil-spot priming
• Sealcoat, two coats
• Stall striping, single line
• Line striping, 4 in
• Accessible stall package
• Directional arrow
• Paver, rollers and crew, per day
• Dump truck with driver
• Cleanup and edge restoration

Paving cost codes in the demo

Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat's own cost codes:

• Mobilization & move-in
• Permits, locates & fees
• Traffic control & barricades
• Removal & haul-off (asphalt, concrete)
• Milling / planing
• Excavation, undercut & subgrade
• Aggregate base & compaction
• Fine grading
• Tack coat
• Hot mix asphalt - base course
• Hot mix asphalt - surface course
• Full-depth patching
• Pothole & skin patching (hot, cold, infrared)
• Crack cleaning & sealing
• Oil-spot priming
• Sealcoating
• Line striping
• Stencils, symbols & accessible-stall markings
• Wheel stops, signs & bollards
• Speed bumps / humps
• Asphalt curb & concrete tie-ins
• Drainage & structure adjustments
• Trucking & hauling
• Owned equipment
• Equipment rental
• Disposal & recycling fees
• Testing & inspection
• Cleanup & edge restoration
• Supervision
• Contingency
• Snow removal (optional)

Questions about SelfConstruct for paving work

Is there a paving version of SelfConstruct?

Not as a separate product. Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat opens with the business type “Asphalt paving & sealcoating”, so its menus are set for that trade. In a customer's company today, the menus are the same whatever the trade.

Can a paving job be fixed price or time and materials?

Both are in the demo: Tarvellow Paving & Sealcoat's “Kimura driveway sealcoat and crack fill” is a fixed-price job, and “Ferrante pothole patching” is billed time and materials.

Does SelfConstruct have “Your trade's units and quantity math” for paving companies yet?

Not yet. It is on the list the demo's welcome card shows under “Not available yet for your trade”.

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Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company before sales tax, unlimited users, 50 GB of storage included.

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