The coast is hard on a surface
Salt in the air, wind driven rain off the sea and a lot of exposed ground with nothing sheltering it. Surfaces on the coast weather faster than the same surface twenty miles inland, and water is the thing doing most of the damage.
That pushes a lot of the work here towards surface dressing and sealing: keeping water out of a surface that is still sound, rather than waiting until it has got in and then digging the whole thing out.
Seasonal traffic
A lot of parking around Scarborough is quiet for half the year and then takes everything at once. Guest houses, holiday lets, caravan and camping sites, and the parking behind businesses on the front all have the same pattern: nothing much happens for months, then a season of constant turning, reversing and loaded cars.
That kind of use wears the same few square metres to death while the rest looks fine, so it is often about repairing the areas that take the punishment rather than resurfacing everything.
Working out of season
If your parking earns its money between Easter and October, the sensible time to have it done is not August. We would far rather do a job here in the winter or early spring, and so would you.
Weather permitting, we lay tarmac most of the year. Hard frost and driving rain stop us, but a cold dry day on the coast in February is a perfectly good day to be surfacing.
Getting there
Scarborough is a straight run east along the A64 and we cover the town and the villages around it. If you are further up or down the coast, ring and ask rather than assuming it is too far.
