Asphalt paving in Laval.

Asphalt paving prices in Laval in 2026

These are the prices Greater Montréal contractors published in 2025 and 2026. Yours depends mostly on the base: it makes the difference between the low and high end. Calculate your price or see 2026 prices in detail.

Our services in Laval

• Asphalt driveway paving: single, double, with a turnaround. Laval has about 90,000 houses, 73,000 of them detached: the largest residential driveway market in the region off the island.
• Asphalt repair: cracks, potholes, sunken areas in front of the garage, crumbling edges.
• Sealcoating and resurfacing when the base is still sound.
• Commercial parking lots on the big boulevards, in phases, so your access stays open.
• Excavation and foundation: the part you don’t see, and the one that decides whether the driveway lasts.

Why driveways sink in Laval

In several Laval sectors the soil is clay: it swells when wet and shrinks when it dries. A driveway laid on a base that is too thin follows those movements and sinks in waves after a few winters. A crushed stone base compacted in layers, with good drainage, isolates the asphalt from that movement.

The simplest benchmark for comparing quotes comes from the City itself: when the City of Laval restores a resident’s driveway after street works, its specification calls for 300 mm of MG-20 stone compacted to 95% and 50 mm of compacted EC-10 asphalt. Ask every contractor for those two numbers.

Redoing your driveway in Laval: no certificate for a house

• Paving: Laval’s urban planning code (table 778) says paving that serves a building of 3 dwellings or fewer needs no certificate.
• Resurfacing: section 2030 lists “resurfacing, applying tar or paint, filling cracks” as maintenance work.
• Gravel to asphalt: drainage by-law L-11870 lists “a restoration involving a change of surface type” among modification permits. In that case, one call to the City settles it.

Widening your driveway: a certificate, and the City cuts the curb

• The certificate: a new or modified curb cut needs a certificate of authorization, $84 for the first 500 m², plus the work billed by Public Works.
• The curb: only the City of Laval may widen or narrow a sidewalk or street curb.
• The width: at most 5.5 m in residential zones T2.3, T3 and T4, and 6 m in T5. One curb cut if the lot is under 30 m wide.
• Greening: 30–60% of the front yard depending on the zone; pavers, permeable or not, don’t count as green surface.
• Documents: certificate of location, a sketch of the current and requested width, a site plan.

The rules of 15 other cities are in our permit guide by city.

Parking lots of 20 spaces or more

For Laval condos, apartment buildings and businesses, section 496 of the code requires, from 20 spaces, an average solar reflectance index of at least 29 (a light material or coating, or a permeable material) and 40% canopy. We account for it in a commercial parking lot quote.

Laval’s climate and your asphalt

At the Dorval station, the nearest, there are on average 73.5 freeze-thaw days a year, and northern Laval is closer to the North Shore stations (about 82). The peaks come in November and March: that’s why we seal cracks before the freeze.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

City of Laval urban planning code CDU-1 (consolidated July 24, 2026): table 778, sections 493–496, 2030 and 2031; by-law L-11870; “Entrée charretière” page (laval.ca); City of Laval special specifications for restoring private works; 1991–2020 climate normals; property assessment roll (MAMH); prices published by Casabella Pavage, Les Pavages Guilmain and scellementasphalte.ca (2025–2026).