[Everyone] Pressure washing

[Sara Crews]

 Mark, I can tell you from experience that there is no guarantee that new roots won't get under the asphalt.  About 10 years ago, we had a buckle in the asphalt from one of the trees that faces Lauren's home.  I purchased the materials for the repair, Jimmy dug up the asphalt back to the cement/curb.  After removing the protruding root, three coats of tar were spread on the cut root to prevent future growth.   New asphalt was applied to the area.  I can guarantee that the cut root did not continue to grow; however, another root made its way under the asphalt near the repaired area.  Those trees should have never been planted near the driveway.  The only way to prevent asphalt from buckling is to remove all of the oak trees and grind up the stumps.  This, too, will be an expensive endeavor.
All the best,Sara    On Monday, September 21, 2026 at 04:33:40 PM EDT, Mark Bussey via Everyone <everyone at chelseaplacedecatur.com> wrote:  
 
 I am happy to help follow up with Ron on getting additional pressure washing quotes.  I only got the one because I wasn't sure anyone other than me cared about removing the markings.  That said, if we intend to redo the drive a good part of the pressure washing becomes irrelevant.  I, for one, definitely think it is long past time to redo our Frankenstein drive. As someone mentioned, we would need to see how that will affect the tree roots and the trees.  Will cutting the roots weaken those trees, will the roots just grow back quickly and wreck our new drive, etc.  Yep, yet another thing to research.Mark

On Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 08:35:08 PM EDT, Residents <everyone at chelseaplacedecatur.com> wrote:

Good evening everyone!

Mark reached out to Fish a few weeks ago about pressure washing the driveway.  They gave a quote, breaking it down by common areas and individual houses.  They gave an “all in” price of a little over $3,000 to power wash everything, including each of the cobblestone driveways. The officers have discussed it, and we think it’s a good idea for the association to pay the $3,000 or so for everything.  We have plenty of money in the bank, so it would not affect our reserves at all.

An additional pieces of information for everyone to keep in mind, is that the asphalt driveway has exceeded its useful life of about 30 years.  We sealed the cracks about 5 years ago, and it’s also exceed its life expectancy.  At this point in time, it’s not worth doing again. Lauren talked to a few companies, and it would cost $25,000 or more to tear up and replace the asphalt. This would require an assessment of at least $1,000 to do.  It doesn’t need to be done right away, but it will have to be done soon, and I can’t define it any better than soon.

The floor is open for discussion.

Dave

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