In the Mix
Setting Up 2026 to Be Your Best Season Yet by Marvin Joles When the last load of sealer’s drained and the temps start dropping, most contractors finally exhale. The phone quiets down. The trucks cool off. Now, if you’re like me, the first quiet couple weeks are...
In the Mix
by Marvin Joles When you’ve been in this industry as long as I have, including decades of running Wis-Coat Asphalt Maintenance, you see the good, the bad and the ugly on a jobsite. The work we do can seem routine after a while. Like pulling up with the crew, unloading...
In the Mix
by Marvin Joles When I first started in asphalt maintenance, sealcoating was the bread and butter. It was the service most customers knew, and it kept us busy season after season. But as time went on, I realized there was a gap between sealcoating and full-depth...
In the Mix
by Marvin Joles I am an advocate for doing it right the first time. Why? Let me tell you. There is a Silent Killer of your sealcoating jobs. One you might not even know is there until months later. In the asphalt maintenance world, most failures don’t happen because...
In the Mix
by Marvin Joles I know that’s a big, heavy, title for this article. I know this is off the path of what you usually get from me when I write this monthly article. But sometimes, we need to pause and focus on something that is a major problem, in order to mitigate an...
