The Asphalt trench repair is a service specifically for plumbers. Gaddes Strategic, LLC, focuses on delivering asphalt trench repair to plumbers in Nashville and surrounding areas; it does its best to remain agile and responsive, saving plumbers time and money by eliminating steel trench plate costs. 

How do we help plumbers save on steel trench plate costs? 

Let’s look at the timeline. 

• Day zero – plumbers get the job. 

• A plumber digs a trench to install either water or a sewage tap.

• After that, fit the pipes and make all connections. 

• Call for inspection by the inspection code.

• When the inspector says it’s good to go, the plumber will need a permanent asphalt patch.

• There is a delay on the permanent asphalt patch because the asphalt contractor is not ready to patch the job immediately.

• Depending on the depth of the trench, in a lot of cases, you fill it up with gravel if it’s only 3 ft deep. Crusher run (“cement mixed with gravel), but sometimes you get deeper, when you do that, you cause the earth to be unstable, as a result, it is advised to put concrete in the trench ( a flowable fill mix), so it fills all the voids, then put gravel on top of that.

The design is 9 inches of binder and 2 inches of topping for these trenches. 

 A temporary patch job consists of gravel, cold patch, and steel plates to get to this result. We are focused on helping the plumber save on these trench plate dollars. 

To save money, Gaddes Strategic, LLC eliminates the temporary patch step for the plumber by filling the trench immediately after codes when the code inspection passes.

The most important thing our strategy will save you is money spent on steel plates used to cover the trench until they get patched.

However, that’s not all. Let’s see some other things an immediate asphalt patch could save you. 

• Extra labor is wasted to place the temporary patch depending on the size of the trench.

• It saves you time as you could be making more money on other jobs. (when you are holding up time on another project, you are also holding up a sale)

• Mitigates financing costs associated when you are renting steel plates. The financing cost is cheaper for 28 days on the month versus 30 days on the month, so if we save you two days, we save you two days on the financing cost. 

• Extra financial costs of materials like renting steel plates, etc. This value depends on the amount spent to rent the steel plates and the time they are used. Having an asphalt contractor do a permanent patch immediately on the day codes inspection has passed is priceless and can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars yearly.

We help the plumber save the cost of all these by allowing them to skip the temporary patch step and patch the trench immediately.

We also save the general contractor money because he is paying the plumber. With the plumber’s dollars now smaller because he doesn’t have to go through the temporary patch process, he is more competitive with the general contractor writing the final check.

The key to doing this is to remain agile and responsive to the plumber by having the equipment and workforce there as soon as the plumber is done with the trench and passed inspection. 

Two ways to save are as follows:

1. Run right behind codes, being agile and responsive/communicative- meet and knock out the permanent asphalt patch. 

2. Meet place binder and roll it up to the surface; then you can wait, let the binder compact, and come back later to mill & fill top 2 inches with hot mix asphalt.