Henrico County’s Local Sealcoating Company
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RVA Asphalt & Sealcoating is a local asphalt contractor serving Henrico County, Virginia. Our work here looks like sealcoating driveways in the West End, restriping shopping center lots along Broad Street, patching alligator cracks in Highland Springs, and keeping HOA entry drives from Wyndham to Wellesley in front of the reserve budget instead of behind it.
Henrico stretches roughly 245 square miles in a horseshoe around the city of Richmond, which makes it the fifth-most-populous county in Virginia and one of the few in the state that maintains its own roads instead of relying on VDOT. That local road authority matters for anyone paving here. Curb cuts, driveway entrances, and any right-of-way work stay inside the county rather than routing through the state.
The county also holds three different pavement realities inside one jurisdiction. Older east-county neighborhoods like Highland Springs, Sandston, and Lakeside sit on subgrades poured before modern engineering existed. The tree-canopied West End (Tuckahoe, Bon Air, Westhampton) stays wet longer after every summer thunderstorm. The fast-growing western commercial corridors around Short Pump, Innsbrook, and Glen Allen carry traffic loads their original specifications never anticipated. One-size-fits-all paving fails in Henrico the same week it’s laid.
We adapt. Base assessment before scope. Product selection matched to shade, drainage, and traffic. Phasing that respects tenants, HOA architectural review windows, and Henrico County’s permit process. When you call us, you get a contractor who has actually been on the streets you’re asking about
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Driveway Sealcoating
The West End’s tree canopy is doing quiet damage to your driveway. Shade slows evaporation, so unsealed asphalt in Tuckahoe, Westhampton, and Bon Air stays damp for hours after summer storms clear. Pollen coats it every April. Sap drips from oak and maple all year. That combination oxidizes the binder faster than the partial sun exposure would predict. Sealcoating on a two to three year cadence keeps the binder pliable, blocks organic staining before it sets, and typically buys homeowners a decade of additional service life before replacement enters the conversation.
Commercial and Parking Lot Sealcoating
Henrico’s commercial density runs from single-tenant medical offices in Innsbrook to the 200-plus-space anchor tenants along West Broad Village. What they share is a maintenance math property managers already know. A proactive commercial sealcoating cycle costs a small fraction of what unplanned overlay or full replacement costs when the base finally lets go. Our commercial work is scheduled in phases, night applications for retail, weekend work for medical, off-peak coordination for offices, so tenants keep operating while we work.
Asphalt Repair
Different failures need different fixes, and getting the diagnosis right is where money is either saved or wasted. Alligator cracking at your lot’s entrance is base failure, not a surface issue. Sealcoating over it hides the problem for one season, then wastes the entire investment. A hairline crack next to your dumpster pad is a two-hour infrared patch today or a much larger dig-out next spring. We assess before we quote and tell you what actually needs to happen, including the parts that don’t.
Crack Sealing
A crack narrower than a pencil is already wide enough to admit water into your base. Once it does, Henrico’s humid summers keep the subgrade damp longer than drier climates would, and central Virginia’s winter freeze cycles widen the crack from below. We schedule crack sealing in shoulder seasons, late spring and early fall, because the sealant bonds best when the pavement itself is warm and dry, and because it beats the next freeze cycle to the punch.
Parking Lot Striping
Faded striping has a cost, and it’s not aesthetic. It reduces effective parking capacity because drivers hedge on ambiguous lines. It creates ADA exposure when accessible spaces and access aisles fade to invisibility. It signals neglect to first-time visitors before they’ve met your staff. Our striping crews handle full layouts, restripes, fire lane marking, directional flow, and ADA-compliant accessible parking that meets current Henrico County code, not the code from when the lot was originally built.
Driveway Paving
The soil under your driveway matters more than the asphalt on top of it. Older Henrico neighborhoods sit on native Piedmont clay that swells wet and shrinks dry, working the base year after year. Newer developments closer to the James River often sit on engineered fill with completely different behavior. Some properties in transition zones have both, sometimes on the same lot. Before we spec a new driveway, we look at what’s actually underneath. Base depth, drainage design, and compaction get matched to your specific site, not a template.
Commercial Properties We Serve in Henrico
Whether it’s a corner storefront in the West End or a sprawling commercial campus in Innsbrook, we handle paving and maintenance for Henrico businesses of every size.
HOAs & Communities
Aging shared roads and parking, typically on a fixed reserve budget.
Property Managers
Multiple buildings and tenants who notice the lot first.
Retail & Shopping Centers
High-traffic lots where first impressions bring customers back.
Warehouse & Distribution
Heavy trucks and constant turning that punish pavement daily.
Medical &
Senior Facilities
Patient access, ADA path-of-travel, and noise-sensitive scheduling.
Churches &
Religious Facilities
Lots that sit quiet, then fill to capacity in a few hours.
Offices &
Business Parks
Schools &
Municipal Sites
Bus loops, drop-off lanes, and faculty parking that need to be ready before the school year starts.
Why Local Knowledge Matters in Henrico
Henrico is really three counties stacked on top of each other, and pretending otherwise is how out-of-area contractors leave a trail of two-year failures.
East Henrico, meaning Highland Springs, Sandston, Lakeside, and Varina, is where the county’s oldest asphalt lives. Much of it was laid before stormwater management existed as a regulatory concept, on subgrades that were graded but not engineered. When Piedmont clay saturates under a summer of humid weeks, the base softens, and every truck delivery, every heavy trash pickup, every FedEx van punches the surface down a little further. What eventually surfaces as alligator cracking started as a base problem two or three years earlier. Skin patches don’t fix that. Full-depth reconstruction with proper base rebuilding does.
Central and west Henrico, meaning the Broad Street corridor, Short Pump, Innsbrook, and Glen Allen, flipped the problem. The construction is generally sound. The issue is that traffic tripled while the pavement stayed the same. Drive-through approaches at fast-casual restaurants, dumpster pads at grocery-anchored centers, the tight radius turns at loading docks. Those spots take punishment the original 1990s design never expected. We reinforce the failure zones without over-engineering the parts of the lot that are still fine.
The tree-canopied West End, meaning Tuckahoe, Westhampton, Bon Air, and older Lakeside, is Henrico’s quiet oxidation zone. Homeowners assume shade protects pavement. It doesn’t. Shade delays surface drying, keeps humidity trapped in surface cracks, and traps the pollen and sap that break down the binder from above. We often recommend more aggressive sealcoating intervals in these neighborhoods than the same-age driveway would need in Short Pump.
Under all three zones, central Virginia’s humid summers and winter freeze cycles grind unsealed pavement down predictably. Reference material worth reading: our knowledge base on how Richmond humidity affects asphalt and signs your commercial parking lot needs attention after winter.
Permits and Regulations
Henrico County permitting sits with the Henrico County Department of Building Construction and Inspections at the Parham Road government complex. Standard driveway sealcoating and minor crack repair don’t require permits. New driveway construction, expanded impervious surface, and commercial paving projects trigger review, and every project in Virginia is governed by the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, which localities cannot amend to be stricter or more lenient.
Curb cuts, driveway entrances, and any work touching county right-of-way go through the Henrico County Department of Public Works Construction Division. This is where Henrico differs from most of Virginia. Because the county maintains its own roads (one of only two counties in the state to do so, along with Arlington), right-of-way permitting stays with Henrico rather than routing through VDOT. That changes both approval timelines and inspection procedures for anyone paving here.
Commercial parking lots in Henrico must meet current ADA standards for accessible parking counts, ramp slope, and unobstructed path of travel. Properties inside the Innsbrook business improvement district or near major arterial right-of-way sometimes carry additional review layers.
Henrico’s rules also differ from the City of Richmond’s, from Chesterfield County’s, and from Hanover County’s. Properties near the county line, common along the Chickahominy River in far east Henrico and near the Richmond city border, need jurisdiction confirmation before scope, and we handle that upfront. Nearby areas we also serve include Mechanicsville, Laurel, Glen Allen, Short Pump, Highland Springs, and Tuckahoe.
Ready to Get Started?
Call 804-825-2991 or use the estimate form. We’re on Henrico properties every week, from Lakeside and Highland Springs to Short Pump, Glen Allen, and the West End. We’ll come out, look at what you’ve got, and give you an honest read on what needs to happen and what can wait.
