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Today's Topic: The Five Mistakes to Avoid

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Surface Restoration Group has been providing sealcoating, striping and other paved-surface services since 1990.

Led by founder James Compton of Indianapolis, SRG operates in Indiana, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.

Our services include surface restoration and related work:

Asphalt / Concrete Maintenance

Including sealcoating, asphalt patching, crack sealing, concrete coatings, roof coatings, and more.

Striping

Including industrial striping, warehouse striping, parking lot striping, and more.

ADA-compliant

Tennis courts

Drywall and Paint

Debris Removal

Stump Grinding

We’re very experienced and bring quality to every aspect of our performance.

Five Mistakes To Avoid

1. Out of Line

This striping contractor’s idea of quality is … on another planet. Lines must terminate cleanly and with clean, clear edges. This could have been avoided with just a moment’s attention to detail.

2. Lame Edge

We observed this beauty in a newly striped restaurant parking lot.
“What probably happened there,” says our James C., “was they had some weekend-warrior sealcoater. The machine this guy probably used was probably a three or four hundred dollar pump-up air-style paint sprayer, which if you really know paint you can dial it in, but usually it looks like [expletive deleted]. … “Entry level on a striping machine, you’re probably looking at $4,000 or $4,500. I have four or five of those – but two much bigger ones.”
So … it’s the classic “how hard can this simple task be?” Turns out, it’s pro-hard. Should’ve hired a pro!

3. The Humans

Here’s the mistake that just may be the hardest to avoid. This is from a big-box hardware store lot that had just been striped. Signs were up: WET PAINT. The area was blocked off. Cones had been placed. A customer still went ahead and stepped right in it. A quick re-do, later, and some forgiveness and patience resolved this one.

4. Asphalt Fail #1

Here is where a paving contractor failed to have a worker with a lute rake ensuring, manually, that the start-stop edge from a paving machine is leveled out and consistent before the asphalt assumes its permanent shape. This expensive fix involved bringing in an infrared heat unit for a difficult re-do.

5. Asphalt Fail #2

You cannot have a good-looking finished surface without proper surface restoration before sealcoating and striping. The asphalt seam A) should be out in the middle of the lot, not along the curb, and B) should ideally not be visible at all.
“Someone should have had a shovel and a lute man and then you get a nice consistent section there between the bollards,” says SRG’s James C. “That’s poor workmanship in paving.”

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