D BURKE ASPHALT PAVING AND SEALCOATING

Don did a fantastic job, going out of his way to accommodate our schedules and each homeowner's needs. The driveways look great, and everyone was happy with the work. We will definitely contact Don again in a couple years when it's time to seal coat again.

Everything was the very best professional service we have ever had. They honored their quotes from the year before. Each employee was respectful and left our property in great shape at the end of each day. They were on time and worked the entire time. Burke Asphalt has also made repairs and reapplied the blacktop every other year for a reasonable amount. Would absolutely recommend this company without any hesitation.

Overall went very well. The crew was on time, respectful and did good work. They involved me in the decisions on shaping the driveway and made sure I inspected and approved before proceeding. They cleaned up after the job and left nothing but a nice looking driveway. The owner was very good to work with and met all quoted terms of the job.

Don Burke is a personable man.  He came  out and gave us a good price because he said he was in the neighborhood and since his equipment was on our street, he could it in 3 or 4 days.  I will say that it rained a lot and I understand that you cannot put down a new asphalt driveway when it is wet.  However, it took 6-7 weeks for a new driveway to be done.  We kept calling him in that period of time and he kept saying he will be out, no problem, it will done tomorrow.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.  We finally started using our garage because we did not want to park on the street for 6-7 weeks.  He finally came out and did it.  There was a part of the driveway that was not finished properly and my husband called him and we got the same story, I will be out tomorrow.  There has not been any rain and he has not come out.  In looking at the driveway, it has grooves and stones are showing through the top of the  asphalt.  For digging up the entire driveway (we have a circular and straight drive), it looks like the driveway was just seal coated; it does not look like he dug everything up and

PS-After this company talked to us they said they would come out and fix the problems. They also reimbursed us for the work on the sprinklers that they broke.

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It took one call to get Burke started on the job, and things went down hill from there.  My neighbor came over to talk to Burke about doing his driveway; Burke stopped in the middle of doing my driveway, went over and did my neighbor's, then came back and "finished" mine.  Unfortunately, I paid him with a check--he told me he did not take credit cards.  I learned later from my neighbor that my neighbor paid with a credit card.
Over the next two days, I saw crumbling asphalt and some big puddles forming.  It took no fewer than 10 calls over 3 weeks to get Burke back out to look at it.  He said the crumbling was due to them paving over mulch, the puddles due to insufficient crowning.  He promised to come back that week to fix it.  That was back in July.  It is now November, the crumbling is worse and the puddles have now become ice patches.  In between, I have called him at least 30 times; when he took the call, he would promise to come out that week.
It turns out that my neighbor's driveway also has problems and has experienced the same lack of response.

First the positive: the workmanship looked very good and they finished the job on time. Of course, we would need to go through one Winter to judge the durability of their work but so far so good.
Now the negative: The added asphalt caused a wooden gate next to the garage to be completely blocked which the owner Don Burke was aware of. We discussed how to solve the problem (cutting the bottom of the wood panel to clear the asphalt) and I paid him in full on the promise that he will finish the job the next day. He never did. Despite repeated phone calls and phony promises, he never showed up again now that he got his check. I ended up doing the job myself.
If you hire this contractor, do not pay him in full until you are completely satisfied and the work completetly done. Otherwise, you may have to finish it yourself.

He has done several other driveways in our sub division and they all look great. He was very professional. There were some repairs that had to be done and he finished them in a timely manner as well. There were no problems with them and I was pleased overall.