T5 Asphalt Paving Contractors

T5 Inc. Ltd. are a well-established, respected business based in Lancashire, working throughout the United Kingdom. We carry out Asphalt, Paving, and Ground Works for commercial and residential customers throughout the country. We offer a full range of groundworks and surfacing services including Asphalt Surfacing and Rejuvenation, Machine laid Tarmac, Micro Surfacing, Slurry Seal-Footpaths and Cycleways, Thermoplastic Road Markings, Groundworks including Block paving and Kerbing, and Surface Dressing.

Our Expertise

T5 Inc. Ltd. also offer a comprehensive range of treatments designed to extend the useful life of structurally sound footpaths, roads, private driveways, car parks, and sports surfaces. Our extensive knowledge gained over many years in the Ground Works industry allows us to offer specialist advice to clients regarding cost-effective, long-lasting, and high-quality solutions to all ground works and surfacing requirements. Most of our work is within the commercial sector, industrial sites, and sports clubs, but we also offer our expertise to domestic customers and private clients.

Our History

The History of The Black Stuff Scotsman John MacAdam is credited with creating tarmac, but the product which MacAdam created was simply a road surface of compressed, crushed stone but with no binding agent, so the crushed stone was loose, and roads would become rutted and even impassable. In 1901, Nottinghamshire county surveyor Edgar Hooley discovered a solution. He was walking along a road, which had been surfaced using the MacAdam's crushed stone process when he noticed a smooth section. He asked some local people about the surface and was told that a barrel of tar had fallen from a cart and burst open. Slag from a nearby furnace had been poured onto it to cover the sticky tar, and a basic version of the tarmac process was born.

The Difference Between Tarmac and Asphalt

Tarmacadam, or to give it its full name, tarmacadam, is made from crushed stone coated with bitumen. It creates a strong, durable surface and, with the addition of a finer grade top coat, offers improved water resistance and grip, as well as creating a texture that gives the material an aesthetic quality. Tarmac has a major drawback in that it is easily damaged by petrol and diesel spills, and today, tarmac has been replaced almost entirely by Bitmac. Bitmac replaces the bitumen from the tarmacadam process with bitumen, and this newer surface is more like asphalt than tarmac, and bitmac contains much more sand and filler.

Our Mission

We are proud to offer a hassle-free service in which prompt attention, delivery on time, to your complete satisfaction, and taking extreme care to carry out your work to the best of our ability is at the forefront of what we do.