Sudlersville paving contractor
One road connects us to Sudlersville
MD 313 runs seventy five miles up the Shore, and it passes our yard in Federalsburg and goes straight through the middle of Sudlersville on Church Street, by way of Denton, Greensboro, Goldsboro and Barclay. MD 300 is the east to west road through town. Sudlersville incorporated in 1870 and had 507 people at the 2020 census, up about twenty seven percent in ten years.
It is a farming town and it has always been one. The Sudlersville Train Station Museum sits beside tracks the Maryland and Delaware Railroad still runs freight on, busiest in the fall grain season and during the fall and spring fertilizer pushes. Our paving outfit in Federalsburg works the farms, the lanes and the town streets alike.
Higher, drier ground and much heavier loads
Sudlersville sits about sixty nine feet above sea level, which by Eastern Shore standards is high ground. That is good news. The water table is further down than it is in the tidewater towns, and a lot of this upper Shore farmland is the well drained sandy loam that Maryland named its state soil for. You still find flat, poorly drained pockets where free water sits near the surface, so we check, but the drainage fight is usually easier here.
The loads are not. This is grain country, and in autumn the lanes carry combines, tractors with loaded carts and trucks heading to the elevator. Farm equipment puts weight on a surface that no passenger car ever will, and it turns in places a car never turns. We build the base deeper, we widen the turns, and we crown it so water is off the lane before the next truck comes through. Our driveway grading work often sorts a lane out before any surface goes on it.
What we handle here
What we build in Sudlersville
Tar and Chip Paving
For a long farm lane, tar and chip is often the smart buy. You get a sealed, stone finished surface with real grip that handles equipment traffic and shrugs off a hard winter better than a thin asphalt mat. Our tar and chip paving in Sudlersville is a regular job on upper Shore farms.
Gravel Driveway Installation
A stone lane built properly is graded, based and crowned so it drains and holds together under equipment instead of scattering into the field. That is a construction job, not a delivery of gravel. Our gravel driveway installation in Sudlersville is built the same way we build under asphalt.
Driveway Paving
In town, Sudlersville drives are short, old and often tucked between buildings that have been there a century or more. We strip them, base them and lay a surface with clean edges and a good apron at the street. Our driveway paving in Sudlersville covers homes and small businesses alike.
Asphalt Repair
A lane that has served for years does not usually need replacing all at once. Fix the failed sections, sort out why they failed and the rest keeps working. We cut back to solid material and patch so it stays put. Our asphalt repair in Sudlersville is the cheapest way to add years to good pavement.
Why Sudlersville calls us
Why Sudlersville owners call Robert and Son
Because farm work is what this company grew up on. Robert and Son Paving has been in business for three generations, we are the third generation, and Bob was born and raised on the Eastern Shore. We know what a loaded grain truck does to a lane built too light, because we have been called out to fix plenty of them.
Maryland Home Improvement Commission licence 74385, BBB A plus accredited since 2018, two year warranty on all work, free estimates, residential and commercial, Monday through Saturday. If a lane is sound but the surface has gone open and dry, ask about sealcoating before you spend on anything bigger.
Where you will see us around Sudlersville
MD 313 and MD 300 cross in the middle of town and we work off both of them, out to the farms and back. The town itself is small and old: the train station museum, St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel and Dudley's Chapel are both on the National Register, and there is a statue and a small park for Jimmie Foxx, the Hall of Fame ballplayer who grew up here.
Most of our hours, though, go on the lanes running back off those two highways to farmhouses, grain bins and equipment sheds. Those surfaces take a beating every harvest, and once winter sets in we are back on commercial properties in the area for snow removal.
Where we work
Driveways and lots we lay in Sudlersville
We cover Sudlersville and the upper end of Queen Anne’s County, and the same run north takes in our Denton work on MD 313 and Kent Island towns like Chester on the Narrows.
Ask a paving contractor
Straight answers about asphalt paving on the Eastern Shore
Will you travel to Sudlersville?
Yes. It is about thirty four miles north of Federalsburg and MD 313 runs from our yard right through the middle of town. Queen Anne’s County is part of our regular service area.
Can you build a Sudlersville lane that handles combines and grain trucks?
Yes, and that is a base question. Heavy equipment needs deeper stone, wider turns and proper compaction. Build it like a car driveway and the first loaded axle in October finds the weak spot.
Is tar and chip better than asphalt for a farm lane?
On long lanes it often is. It goes down quickly, grips well and flexes with the ground. On short lanes and around buildings, hot asphalt usually makes more sense. We will tell you which fits your property.
The ground here seems drier than down south. Does that help?
It does. Sudlersville sits about sixty nine feet up on mostly well drained soil, so the water table is deeper than in the tidewater towns. We still check for the poorly drained pockets, because they exist.
Do you do work in Sudlersville town as well as on the farms?
Yes, residential and commercial both. Home driveways, church and shop lots, and repair work on older surfaces around the town streets.
Are you licensed and do you warranty the work?
We hold Maryland Home Improvement Commission licence number 74385, we have been BBB A plus accredited since 2018, and every job carries a two year warranty. The company has been running for three generations.