Allan Heydorn, Editor
SEAL & STRIPE: Small Job Award Winner
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Love’s Asphalt Solutions Handles Nightly Logistics Moving work zones and sealing drive-through in pieces keeps Pizza Village South open CONTRACTORS ALL WORK hard pursuing the new clients, and all contractors have the client that, for whatever reason, they can’t seem to land. But often contractors land that job that always got away – and they do a good job on a challenging project. That’s what happened with Love’s Asphalt Solutions, Lafayette, LA, and it’s why Love’s Asphalt Solutions receives Pavement’s Seal & Stripe: Small Job Award for 2020. The award-winning job was at Pizza Village South, one of two premier pizza restaurants in Lafayette. Kristofer Love, owner, says the company has done work on the other pizza property but wasn’t able to break through to work for Pizza Village South until 2019.
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“We worked the last two years to get the work and to get them to do something on their parking lot, and when we finally got the call, they wanted it done right away,” Love says. The work they wanted done included more than 1,100 linear ft. of crack repair, 428 linear ft. of striping, striping of five handicap parking spaces and 65,360-sq.-ft. of sealcoating. When Love’s bid it they’d planned on doing the work over three days, but because of the timing of the job, Pizza Village South restricted when access to the restaurant could be closed. “The major challenge was the job was right in the middle of the AllStar Softball season and the place was open seven days a week and couldn’t be closed down,” Love says. So, Love altered the plan to section off 14,000-sq.-ft each day, turning a threeday process into a five-night process. “At one point we had to split one day
The award-winning job required more than 1,100 linear ft. of crack repair, 428 linear ft. of striping, striping of five handicap parking spaces and 65,360-sq.-ft. of sealcoating.
because we had to make sure people could get in through the front of the restaurant,” he says.
Third Time is the Charm Kristofer Love started Love’s Asphalt Solutions, Lafayette, LA, in 2015 by himself after two unsuccessful business attempts. “The first job I overinvested and under delivered,” he says. “I had the money, but I lost it because mentally I was too lazy to do the work I needed to do.” In his second business he under invested and over delivered. “I got gun shy and didn’t spend the money where I needed it,” he says.
February 2020 • PAVEMENT • www.ForConstructionPros.com/Pavement
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