Young's Excavating & Paving LLC

Young's Excavating & Paving works out of 37 Washington St in Penacook and paves driveways, parking lots and walkways across central and southern New Hampshire, with excavation, sealcoating, stamped asphalt and landscaping alongside. The company says its family has been paving since 1947 across four generations; the Better Business Bureau, which accredited it in 2020 and grades it A+, records the LLC itself as starting in March 2012. The praise is consistent and it is about the paving. A June 2026 customer in Allenstown wrote that the crew was "conscientious and detail oriented" and took care that everything was thoroughly compacted; a 2025 reviewer went further and named the three compactors used and noted the mix was still hot when it was rolled. Reviewers repeatedly mention finishing in a single day, holding to the quoted price, and dealing directly with owner Bill Young. Speed of response comes up often too. A 2025 customer who called for a small paving estimate had a project manager on site within hours and a written proposal the next day; another had a sinkhole in the driveway looked at and ended up skim-coating the whole surface after talking it through with the owner. Several reviewers are repeat customers, one saying the company put in two driveways almost twenty years ago and has maintained them since. The complaints are worth reading before you sign. In a 2024 review a customer said they paid $5,000 for a job the owner later called "guaranteed to fail" after it washed out, and added in spring 2025 that nothing was left of the driveway. In a 2023 review a commercial customer in Merrimack said sidewalk striping began peeling as soon as the town signed off, and that the crew sent to fix it overheated the stripes and made it worse. A 2025 reviewer scored the company two stars over scheduling after an early-April start slipped, and a 2025 three-star review said bluntly: "Great paving job. Lousy landscaping.. Stick to the paving." One thing to know about how they sell. The company works the "we're in your neighbourhood with leftover asphalt" approach: a 2026 Reddit thread was started by a Central NH homeowner objecting to exactly that pitch in his driveway, and a 2023 commenter said that when he asked the crew what their warranty was, "they looked at me like I spoke another language". Several other commenters in the same thread said they took the offer and were happy - one in Dunbarton, one in Pembroke who found them cheaper than two other quotes. So: a busy, owner-run paving outfit with a deep well of satisfied driveway customers, a landscaping side that its own reviewers rate lower, and a sales approach that some homeowners find intrusive. Get the scope, the warranty and the price in writing before the truck arrives.