Every winter Patterson runs the same slow experiment on its pavement: water works in, freezes overnight, and pries. Patterson Paving & Masonry LLC spends the season keeping that water moving instead, plowing driveways and lots down clean, clearing walkways, and salting so meltwater drains rather than settles. Working in stone and asphalt teaches a crew where a surface pitches and where a puddle will find its way, and that reading shapes every pass they make. Banks get pushed off the edges rather than left to shed water back across the drive all February. When the thaw finally comes, the difference is easy to see from the road.