Asphalt & Concrete Paving in Milford, MI
Every Driveway Looks Fine the Day It’s Poured.
It’s the ten years after that separate a good paving job from a good-looking mistake.
Sommerset Paving provides asphalt paving Milford, MI residents and business owners have trusted for well over a decade, along with concrete paving, driveway paving, and parking lot paving for residential and commercial properties throughout the region. We’re a small, family-owned, fully licensed team, and the person who quotes your project stays with it through the last day on site.
Take a look at our recent work and see what we can do for your property.
What Every Milford Project Starts With
We’re not trying to be the biggest paving company around Milford. We’d rather be the one you actually want to call back for the next project.
Before any asphalt gets laid or concrete gets poured, our crew handles the excavation and grading work that decides whether a job holds up. That means clearing the old surface, checking drainage, and building a base that matches the property, whether it’s a quiet driveway in one of Milford’s subdivisions or a commercial lot that sees delivery vehicles all day. Skip that part and even a fresh coat of blacktop won’t last.
Asphalt Paving
Asphalt has a job to do around Milford, and between the seasonal swings and daily wear from traffic, it doesn’t get an easy one.
Our paving process covers new driveways, full replacements, and resurfacing for residential, commercial, and light industrial projects. Most residential driveways call for two to three inches of compacted asphalt over a properly built base, and once that base is right, the surface is typically ready for vehicles again within 24 to 48 hours. Summer months tend to be our busiest paving season for good reason. Warm, dry weather is when asphalt surfaces cure and compact best.
A few reasons homeowners keep choosing asphalt driveways:
- Flexible enough to handle Michigan’s freeze and thaw without cracking the way rigid materials can
- Generally more affordable than concrete
- Efficient to install, with most residential driveways completed in a day
- A finished look that holds up well under regular vehicle traffic
Concrete Paving
Concrete doesn’t forgive shortcuts. If the base underneath isn’t right, the surface eventually tells on you.
We provide concrete paving for driveways, curbs, walkways, and heavier-duty surfaces for commercial properties and municipal sites around Milford. Concrete carries more weight and holds up to more pressure than asphalt, which makes it the better fit for certain jobs, and we’ll walk you through which material actually makes sense for your specific needs instead of just upselling the pricier option.
Parking Lots & Driveways and Commercial Properties
A parking lot tells your customers something before they ever walk through the door of your shop or restaurant. A driveway does the same for your house.
Our parking lot paving services for Milford businesses and our driveway paving for local homeowners are both built around how the space actually gets used. Grading, drainage, and layout get planned around real traffic patterns instead of guesswork, so the lot or driveway holds up under daily use. For commercial properties especially, a clean, freshly paved lot is often a customer’s first impression of the business, before they’ve even walked in the door.
Asphalt Repair & Maintenance
Asphalt rarely fails all at once. It starts with one crack, then a pothole, then a section that feels rougher every time you drive over it.
Our repair and maintenance services include pothole repair, crack filling, and resurfacing for driveways, lots, and roads that need more than a patch. Crack filling matters more than it sounds like it should. Left alone, cracks let water reach the base underneath, and that’s usually where a small repair turns into a full replacement. Potholes are similar. The sooner they’re patched, the less they cost to fix and the less damage they do underneath.
We also offer sealcoating, which is one of the most cost-effective ways to protect asphalt from sun and moisture and typically adds another three to five years of life to a surface. Done every two to three years, along with prompt crack and pothole repair, it’s realistic for a well-maintained driveway to last two decades or more.
If you’re not sure whether your property needs a repair, a resurface, or a full replacement, bring us the question. We’re happy to walk the site, give you an honest, personalized evaluation, and schedule a consultation around your timeline, including evenings or weekends when a project calls for it.
Site Grading
Nobody notices grading when it’s done well. They notice puddles, and eventually foundation trouble, when it isn’t.
Grading measures how a surface slopes toward or away from your structures, and getting it right keeps water moving where it should instead of pooling against a foundation or freezing into a hazard across a parking lot. It’s a small measurement with a big effect on how long everything else we build actually lasts.
Your Go-To Paving Contractors in Milford, MI
Plenty of contractors can show up with equipment and pour something. Fewer of them respond when you call three months later with a question.
Our Milford customers get one point of contact, high quality work on every job, and pavement built for real Michigan weather rather than a mild forecast. Whether it’s a residential driveway, a commercial parking lot, or a municipal project, we treat it with the same attention from the first walkthrough to the finished site.
Ready for a paving crew that actually answers the phone? We’re ready to talk through your project and get you a straightforward, free estimate.
