Jim's Paving & Chip Sealing

This company operates using several different names. James Gorman Is the owner. I paid him $7000 and he never came back to finish the work. My driveway is mostly deteriorated from the rain. He promised me that I would have a hard surface and now is mostly just black chips . Buyer beware!

Hired them to repair a hole from a large tree that got knocked over in a storm and seal the driveway. When I got home I found out they had filled the hole with bag asphalt from lowes and did no prepwork under it. Now I have a sunken hole in my driveway. The seal coat stayed sticky for weeks and tracked everywhere. They got it all over the house where it meets the driveway. Against my better judgment I paid them with the promise they would be back the next day which they never showed up. When I called and told them about the seal coast being sticky after a week I was told throw sand on it. Never saw or heard from them again.

Jim showed up in our neighborhood and said he had extra material from another job and wanted to know if we wanted to do our driveway and gave us what we thought to be a good deal-$10,000. So we went ahead and got the driveway done. It went up beside our house. While they were working they scratched the side of the house up and didn’t even mention it, I found it later after they had left. We find glass pieces in it all the time, which is definitely not ideal in a driveway, along with large chunks of rock that come out and leave holes. After having the driveway about six months it’s like others have said-tons of loose gravel and not settling, getting some areas sinking and the entrance has completely fallen apart. It’s even got dips in it just from where my dog goes across it. When you call him for the “warranty” he says he’ll show up but doesn’t. Definitely an issue with quality and warranty. Wouldn’t recommend.

I contracted Jim's Paving of Rockwall TX to do a chip and seal job on my driveway in April of 2020. He came out and promised me that the work would last "7-10 years" and would look "Just like the rural hi-ways near here." They came out and completed the work in half a day. There was approximately an inch of loose gavel left on top. Jim assured me that it would all press into the tar in the next few weeks. This did not happen. Within a month ruts were beginning to form in the drive. I called and he said "It takes a few months for the gravel to settle in." By late fall of 2020 I was already having to fill potholes in his work. I spent over $200 on asphalt to patch the pot holes. The gravel has either washed off or sits in piles on the drive. My drive is worse now then when they began. When contacted he said he would check it out but never showed. I do not recommend using this company at all. Not trustworthy. I have had to hire a new contractor to repair the road.

I had noticed a number of properties in my neighborhood, Vista Grande Estates, getting paving work done. It looked so nice. One afternoon the owner, Jim, knocked on my door and asked if we had thought about doing paving on our gravel driveway. I thought it would be too expensive so we never had it done. However, Jim gave us an awesome affordable price. His crew was clean and respectful. They worked hard and steady. Now our driveway looks amazing. I wish we hadn't waited so long, but glad we waited for Jim's paving.