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To our valued client, a sincere thank you for inviting us to help with your paving needs throughout California. We hope you enjoy this newsletter and walk away with useful tips and education to help meet your personal and professional goals. Happy October!
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Recent Project:
High Production calls for Big Equipment-Introducing the Wirtgen 7' Cold Milling Machine AKA "Grinder" weighing in at over 60,000LBS!
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The 60,000 Pound Beast:
This industrial site needed us to quickly tear out a 20,000 s.f. area of pavement, cement treat the unstable subgrade, and pave it back so the business suffered little impact. This 30-ton Cold Milling Machine is a helpful tool in grinding out the existing pavement at an impressive speed.
We are focused on acquiring top-of-the-line equipment, maintaining it, and training our crews. We thrive on high production rates and maximizing the value for our busy clientele. Time is money. Quality
AND
quantity is our goal.
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Educational Highlight:
What to look out for when Paving in the Winter
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Winter Warfare-Paving tips to get you through our Winter Season
The cold is coming, though it’s hard to believe when it’s 106 degrees in Newport Beach!
Lately, you may recall, we have seen wisps of cool air and the days growing shorter, cooler, and cloudier. These things are a detriment to a seal project with one the biggest factors being humidity. The problem lies in dry times; in the summer and warmer months, there’s no problem. While we prefer 70 degrees minimum temperature outside (“ambient temperature”) for effective drying, 60 degrees and rising can suffice if there is a smooth surface and not a lot of shade. It’s critical to heed these points because opening up your parking lot before the seal has dried, can create a big, costly mess and increased liability. It can also compromise the lifespan of the seal if it is not allowed to cure properly. Let’s look at how to prevent these predicaments.
Things to be aware of:
- High humidity- this is the “quiet killer”. Even on warm days humidity can really slow things down. Since drying is actually the moisture in the material being absorbed by the atmosphere, it makes a difference how much ability the local atmosphere has to accept it. On a typical day, say 80 degrees with 10% humidity, the air has almost 90% of its volume available to take on water vapor. On a day with 80% humidity, there is only 20% of dry air available to take on water. Just this one fact alone kills more seal projects than anything as it is not often considered when scheduling.
- Low temperatures – even if it is 75 degrees ambient temperature, it may have been 50 degrees last night so anything in the shade will still be hovering around 55-55 degrees even hours into the day. This is why shaded areas dry so slow in the fall. Not because they are not in direct sunlight—though sunlight does expedite drying. It is more that the ground temperature is so low as well as the surrounding air, that it can’t take on any more water. Cool air gets humid quickly and stays saturated making dry times slow.
- Rough areas and cracks – in rough and crack areas the material goes on much thicker and can pool in depressions. A thicker material takes longer to dry- it is just common sense.
- Lack of wind – stale, stagnant air becomes super saturated with the evaporating water vapor and cannot take on more water. One can even feel it sometimes, right before the atmosphere bursts loose with rain. The air feels super humid in areas but anywhere there is a slight breeze the humidity is much less. The same principle applies here. The faster the dry air can move over the wet surface, the quicker it will evaporate and subsequently cure.
Now that being said there are additives and hardeners that can be used with the seal coating material to expedite drying. Some work, some are gimmicks. Even the best fast-drying agent in the world will not help things dry if enough weather attributes are stacked against it. So the next time your contractor warns you about sealing at a certain time of the year or weather pattern, please take heed. We do literally hundreds of seal coating projects a year. We have had projects take up to 3 days to dry when customers insisted we seal in a cool December after we warned them. Once it is on the ground, there is not a lot than can be done. Understanding the basics of dry time factors will go a long way here. Ask questions and make informed decisions and hopefully the Winter Warfare will not leave too many battle scars on your next seal project.
Article written by James Duncan, Sr. Project Manager, United Paving Co.,Office: 951-739-9200, Email: james@united-paving.com
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The National Day to Celebrate:
#HALLOWEEN
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Let's enjoy Halloween before the holiday madness begins!
- Check out the deal Chipotle is offering on Halloween! Wear your costume and get a $3 burrito at Chipotle and a chance to enjoy free burritos for the year!
- Need an easy, last minute costume idea? Check out these outfits for inspiration. Then you can swing by Chipotle before that party!
- Safety First. For tips on how to stay safe this Halloween weekend, click here.
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Upcoming Industry Events:
Professional Growth & Networking Opportunities
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Retail, Office, Industrial, HOA and Multifamily Organization Events:
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Featured Event:
IREM-IE Masquerade Ball & Awards Gala
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IREM Inland Empire represents Commercial and Multifamily Real Estate Management professionals throughout the Inland Empire. We invite you to peruse the website
www.IREMIE.org
to see the professional growth opportunities provided by this International organization. The event on November 3 will honor the achievements in the IE!
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Our Sales/Project Management Department welcomes-
Zach Williamson!
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Zach Williamson, Sr. Project Manager, United Paving Co.
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We are proud to welcome Zach Williamson to our team. With over 20 years of asphalt construction experience in estimating, project management and marketing, he is capable of meeting the immediate needs of our clientele and the demands of peak season. His warm and professional approach is a great fit, too! Please feel free to reach out to him at zach@united-paving.com.
Congrats and welcome to the team, Zach!
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Have you visited our
website
lately? Please do and send us a message!
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Reminder:
Turn Back the Clock on Sunday Nov 5!
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Yes! It's time to enjoy an extra hour of sleep.
While there is still record breaking heat in Southern California, it really is the Fall season and Daylight Savings is ending. Don't forget to turn back those clocks, and get yourself an extra hour of sleep on November 5th. Clocks turn back at 2 AM.
For more information on Daylight Savings Time,
click here
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Call our corporate office at
951-739-9200
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