Businesses have a need to provide a great level of customer service to stay competitive and keep their customers happy. While customer service can involve plenty of things, it also involves making sure your customers can easily visit your place of business.
For starters, your place should be accessible and convenient for your target consumer base to reach. Once they are there, they need to have a good parking space. It’s undeniable that drivers feel a certain level of satisfaction when they have parked their vehicles perfectly in an appealing parking space.
To offer your customers convenience and improve your customer service efforts, here are some signs that indicate problems with asphalt parking lots.
Warping
Whether your business is commercial or industrial, you probably have plenty of vehicle activity on your parking lot as well as on other sites like loading docks and delivery zones. Over time, the pressure can cause warping in the asphalt.
Additionally, extreme temperatures and direct sunlight can cause warping and bending over time.
Whether your parking lot has minor warps or bends here and there, you should try to get it fixed immediately. Otherwise, you might have injured customers, injured workers, or car accidents to deal with in your parking lot.
Cracks
As water seeps through the asphalt and settles, the road can form cracks over time. With continued exposure to sunlight, moisture, and more water, there could be a greater number of cracks in your parking.
While cracks aren’t as big an issue as warps or bends, they are still a hazard to anyone walking through your parking lot and they need to be taken care of on time. Otherwise, they can get bigger and damage more of the parking lot. Then, you will have to pay more to get repairs.
Potholes
If you don’t take care of the cracks in your asphalt driveway on time, then you will have to deal with something a lot bigger and a lot more hazardous.
Other than the cracks getting bigger, potholes can also be formed when the soil underneath the asphalt shifts. While you can’t do much about the soil, you can hire a concrete paving company to fix the parking lot. They can fill in the hole and resurface the asphalt while applying a seal to keep it safer from damage in the future.
Dull and Faded
If you don’t maintain your asphalt parking lot, it can dull over time and the sharp black color can become grey. Not only the asphalt, but the lines you have separating parking spaces and identifying handicapped spaces can dull as well due to the exposure to the sun.
Before it starts to crack, you should consider hiring professionals to put in a seal coat.
Puddles of Water
If you aren’t sure whether or not the asphalt’s cracks, warps, or potholes are significant, then having puddles of water around your parking lot after rain or even on sunny days can be a surefire indicator.
If there are one or more puddles of water in your parking lot, then you should take care of it immediately before it causes more damage.