RDM Construction Companies
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RDM Construction handles asphalt paving in Latham, NY for homeowners and commercial property owners alike: residential driveways, parking lots, private roads, and access drives throughout the Town of Colonie and Albany County. Same crews, same equipment, same base preparation standard, sized to the job in front of us. Free written estimates on every project.
Most of Latham was built between the 1950s and 1980s, and both the housing stock and the commercial corridors reflect that history. Capes, split-levels, Colonials, and Tudors sit on tight lots where the driveway runs from the street curb to the garage door with a landscaped border on one side and a property line on the other. The retail and office development along Route 9, Route 2, and the Airport Park corridor dates to the same era and is now carrying traffic volumes and vehicle weights nobody specified for in 1972.
RDM is family owned, licensed, and insured, with 40+ years of paving and excavation work across upstate New York. Every project carries a one-year workmanship and materials warranty in writing, and we price match written quotes from licensed, reputable competitors. We serve Latham, Loudonville, Maplewood, Newtonville, and surrounding Albany County communities.
In a neighborhood this dense, a failing or heavily patched driveway stands out. It also creates real problems: water that pools near the foundation instead of draining to the street, crumbling edges that become trip hazards, and a maintenance cycle that costs more every spring without actually solving anything.
RDM handles residential asphalt paving throughout Latham and the Town of Colonie. New driveway installations, full replacements, resurfacing for driveways with a sound base, concrete removal and replacement, and widening jobs for households that need more room. Every estimate is written and itemized.
Building a new driveway on a Latham lot means working within a specific footprint, close to a property line, a tree, or an existing landscaping border. We excavate to stable subgrade, install 6 to 8 inches of compacted stone base, and grade the surface so water sheds away from the house rather than toward it.
On the flatter lots common through Colonie, that crown grade is built into the base layer. It is a subtle detail that makes a significant difference in how the driveway performs over 20 years and how dry the garage area stays.
A large portion of Latham homes still have their original concrete driveways from the 1960s or 1970s. When those slabs crack, settle, and heave, many homeowners ask whether asphalt can go directly over the concrete. In most cases, that is not the right approach.
Asphalt and concrete expand and contract at different rates, which creates delamination at the interface. Cracks in the concrete migrate through the asphalt layer above, often within the first two seasons.
Surface cracks and potholes are worth addressing before they grow. In the Capital Region's freeze-thaw climate, a crack that goes unsealed before winter is noticeably wider by April.
We rout cracks and fill them with hot-pour rubberized sealant rather than brush-on product that works loose in the first cold stretch. Potholes get cleaned to stable edges, tack-coated, and packed with compacted asphalt.
Latham carries more commercial pavement per square mile than most of Albany County. The Route 9 retail corridor, Latham Farms, the office and flex space around Airport Park and Wolf Road, the industrial properties off Watervliet Shaker Road, and the apartment and condominium developments spread through Colonie all sit on asphalt that takes loads residential driveways never see.
Much of it was built to 1970s and 1980s specifications and has been overlaid rather than rebuilt ever since. Our full commercial scope is on Commercial Asphalt Paving
Subgrade preparation, stone base, binder course, and top course specified for the actual traffic mix rather than a generic depth. A lot serving passenger vehicles and a lot receiving tractor-trailer deliveries are not the same build, and quoting them the same way is how lots fail early.
We spec drive lanes and dumpster pads heavier than parking stalls, because that is where the load concentrates.
Where the base is sound but the surface has failed, cold-planer milling removes the deteriorated layer and restores grade before resurfacing.
Milling matters more than usual on older Latham retail lots, because decades of overlays have raised surface elevations against curbs, door thresholds, and accessible routes.
Milling corrects that instead of compounding it, and it lets us fix drainage problems that another overlay would lock in permanently. Subgrade preparation, stone base, binder course, and top course specified for the actual traffic mix rather than a generic depth.
For lots too far gone to overlay, we pulverize the existing asphalt in place and blend it into the base as stabilized material. Less material hauled off site, less new aggregate brought in, and a stronger base than the original in most cases.
On the larger Colonie retail and industrial lots this is frequently the difference between a project that pencils and one that does not.
Accessible stall dimensions, access aisles, ramp slopes, and signage placement are part of the paving scope, not an afterthought.
We restripe to current layout requirements on resurfacing projects rather than reproducing whatever was there before. This comes up constantly on older Route 9 retail lots, where the striping predates current accessible-route standards. Line striping, directional markings, fire lanes, and stop bars are handled in-house.
Whether you're a homeowner or a facility manager or property owner bidding this out, we provide written, itemized scopes with base depths and material specifications stated. No lump sums, no vague ranges.
Fill out the form on this page to get started, or call (518) 414-8789.
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