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Parking Lot Striping:
Pavement marking effectiveness is based mostly on the durability and the
visibility of the markings.
Visibility
Is related mostly to the brightness and reflective nature of the material; also
glass beads mixed into the pavement marking traffic grade paint...can add to the
visibility by greatly increasing the material's retro-reflection
characteristics.
Fading
Faded pavement markings and parking stall lines make these important traffic
control devices invisible to customers, tenants and other motorists, leading to
potentially dangerous outcomes.
- Arrows, stop bars, and other traffic control markings ensure the proper
flow of traffic and optimize customer flow in and out of parking lots.
- Fire lanes, curbing and no parking zones ensure that vehicles will not
be parked in important areas and potentially block emergency response
vehicles.
- Furthermore, faded parking lines lead to insufficient use of parking lot
space and leading to less customer and tenant parking than the parking lot
space will allow, including accessible parking spaces.
- Compliance with the ADA requires clearly visible handicap spaces of the
proper dimension (including at least 1 "van" space) and proper signs.
Pavement Markings on Fresh Sealcoat
Although thermoplastic paint are the ideal type of pavement marking on
sealcoated surfaces, water-based or latex-based paints are far more economically
feasible relative to their durability and visibility. Water-based or latex-based
traffic grade paints must be applied, however, after the sealcoat has properly
cured; this curing can take as little as a few hours depending on sun exposure,
humidity, traffic conditions and other variables. If sufficient curing time is
not allowed for the sealcoat, traffic grade paint will being to "bleed" and
discolored.
Furthermore, excess traffic on fresh sealcoat will also "scar" the pavement
markings with tacky sealcoat that has come onto vehicle tires and is tracked
onto fresh pavement markings. All of these potential issues can be avoided by
allowing sealcoat proper dry times before applying pavement markings. Since we
also perform sealcoating we know when it it sufficiently cured to apply pavement
markings.
Our Warranty:
One year on material and workmanship. But expect it to out live the
warranty by 2 or more years.
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