Residential & Farm
Tar and Chip and Asphalt Driveways in Floyd, VA
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Most of Floyd County isn't town. The town of Floyd has about 448 people, and the rest of the county is farms and homes on long private drives up on the Blue Ridge Plateau. If you have a gravel drive that ruts every spring and washes out in a hard rain, this page is mostly for you.
Paving Plus lays both tar and chip and asphalt, so you can price either one on your drive. The shop is in Shawsville, 30-some miles away.
- Tar and ChipHot liquid asphalt with crushed stone rolled in. It costs less than asphalt, grips well on slopes and suits long rural drives with light to moderate traffic.
- Asphalt PavingSmooth, hard asphalt for driveways, parking lots and rural roads. The base and drainage get checked first, then hot asphalt is laid and rolled to carry your traffic.
- Asphalt RepairCrack filling (including hot rubberized crack fill), patching, pothole repair, regrading low spots and resurfacing worn asphalt.
Free estimates in Floyd
Local conditions in Floyd
Plateau winters in Floyd
The town sits at about 2,493 feet, roughly a thousand feet above Shawsville. That extra height means a longer, colder winter for anything you lay down. Plan your surface for plateau winters, not for the weather down in the valley. On a long drive, the low spots and the shaded stretches under trees stay frozen or wet the longest, and those are the places a surface gives out first.
Long rural driveways
With so few people in town, most driveways in the county are rural, and many are long gravel runs. Asphalt from the road all the way to the house adds up fast over that kind of distance. Farm drives carry more than cars, too: feed trucks, livestock trailers and tractors all use the same lane, and the surface has to be chosen with the heaviest of them in mind.
VDOT permits for driveway entrances
Where your drive meets a state-maintained road, VDOT treats the connection as a private entrance, and work in the state right-of-way needs a land use permit. VDOT's own definition of a private entrance covers access to up to two homes or to a farm field, with light daily traffic. Past the right-of-way, the drive is yours to build and keep up.
Small lots in town
Visitors come to Floyd for its music, which puts extra cars on the small lots in and around town. Lots that size wear at the entrance and in the few rows nearest the door. A patch and fresh lines there go a long way.
Tar and chip or asphalt for a farm drive
For the long run from the road, tar and chip is the right call in most of Floyd County: it seals the gravel, grips on grades and costs less over distance. It's worth pricing asphalt for the parking pad by the house at the same time, and the chooser helps you split it. If a few stretches are soft or rutted but the rest is firm, fix those sections first, because a chip seal copies whatever is underneath it. Small business and church lots in town are a different job: asphalt, then sealcoat and striping.
Floyd questions
Can tar and chip go over the gravel that's already there?
Often, if the gravel base is solid. The area gets graded for a stable base, hot liquid asphalt goes down, then crushed stone is spread and rolled in. Soft or rutted spots get fixed before any of that.
Does a VDOT permit apply where the drive meets the road?
If that road is state-maintained, your entrance sits in VDOT's right-of-way, and new entrance work there needs a land use permit through the local VDOT residency. A private entrance carries no permit fee, though an application fee applies. <!-- source: fee rule per https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title24/agency30/chapter151/section710/ (dollar figure deliberately omitted per Silas section 4) - Whether repaving an existing entrance needs a permit is worth settling with VDOT before work starts.
Can a private road shared with neighbors be surfaced?
Tar and chip goes on rural roads as well as driveways. On a shared road, get every owner to agree on the scope and the cost split before the estimate, so one neighbor doesn't end up carrying it.
Get a free estimate in Floyd
Call (540) 731-3000 or send the estimate form with the drive's rough length and what's on it now. We'll come out and measure.