CONTRACTOR ’ S CORNER
KRISTOFER LOVE
LOVE ’ S ASPHALT SOLUTIONS , LLC SCOTT , LOUISIANA
By Jeff Winke
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HO WE ARE ith only a full-time staff of about seven employees-- including the owner , sales manager , and bookkeeper--Love ’ s Asphalt Solutions delivers quality , award-winning work . Owner , Kristofer Love started Love ’ s Asphalt Solutions in 2015 with $ 600 and a five-gallon bucket . Now Love ’ s Asphalt works out of an 8,000 sq ft warehouse with a fleet of equipment . “ It was March of 2015 , I was working in the oilfield during an economic downturn ,” Love recalled . “ In June I got laid off , and started another job in the oilfield making 50 % of what I was making . After a few months , I walked into a local butcher shop that had an asphalt parking lot and asked if they wanted it sealcoated ? The owner turned and said ‘ yep give me a price .’ I got the job and with $ 600 dollars , Love ’ s Asphalt was created . Three months of hustle later , the work load was more then I was making in the oilfield , so a year after being ‘ downsized ,’ I quit my oilfield job and made Love ’ s Asphalt my fulltime job .” Love continued : “ The following two years were up and down and to keep from going under I took a six-month security project guarding an oil production platform in international waters . After those six months , I refocused on Love ’ s Asphalt and started a marketing campaign that landed me my first apartment complex pavement overlay . Shortly after I purchased my first paver and roller . Since then we have self-financed 90 % of the equipment in our fleet . “ We have developed relationships with real estate management companies , where we handle the majority of their property portfolios between east Texas , Louisiana , southern Mississippi , southern Arkansas , and Alabama .”
WHAT WE DO Love ’ s Asphalt Solutions is a full-service , in-house commercial and residential driveway and parking lot repair provider , specializing in services from milling and paving , to patching , striping sealcoating , curb repairs , and crack filling . Commercial work takes up about 90 % of Love ’ s portfolio and 10 % is residential work . Projects range from paving a thousand square foot driveways to sealcoating and patching three to five hundred thousand square foot complexes . The company recently launched a Potholes Division dedicated specifically to pothole repairs found on commercial lots to residential driveways . They will fill in and fix potholes holding water and damaging vehicles . The company ’ s Mission Statement is to provide superb quality services built on integrity that business owners and residential customers alike trust and recognize for being offered at a fair and market competitive price .
RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• In 2020 , Love ’ s Asphalt Solutions won a Pavement Maintenance and Reconstruction Award for Small Sealcoat and Stripe Projects from an industry professional organization .
• In 2023 , Love ’ s won a Pavement Maintenance and Reconstruction Award for a Large Sealcoat and Stripe Project from an industry professional organization .
• In 2022 , Love ’ s Asphalt Solutions was awarded Top Contractor for Paving from Pavement Maintenance and Reconstruction Magazine .
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