| Parking Lot Curb Painting Essentials | | | | Of course, curb stencils alone may not perform the |
| Painting parking lot curbs may seem like a tedious | | | | job as uniformly as you would like, and there are a |
| proposition for a new business, but the truth of the | | | | number of factors that you should consider before |
| matter is that it is an excellent part-time opportunity, | | | | engaging in the painting of parking lot curbs. The first |
| which may eventually develop into a full time | | | | and most obvious one is debris. Parking lots collect |
| endeavor. All one requires is the right set of tools, a | | | | rocks, dust and other residue over time, which not |
| diligent and enterprising attitude, and some | | | | only wears away existing markings, but also makes it |
| networking resources to make the people who need | | | | more difficult to paint any new ones. It is highly |
| these services aware of the existence of the service | | | | recommended that you invest in a set of brooms, |
| provider. Conversely, if you are a parking lot owner | | | | and maybe a gas blower, to sweep out the area and |
| or proprietor who needs to perform regular | | | | ensure that the surface upon which you paint will be |
| maintenance on his parking lot markings every so | | | | as flat and free of blemishes as you can get it. |
| often, it would be prudent for you to look into | | | | Curb painting is also an exercise in precision, due to |
| purchasing the tools that allow you to lay down | | | | the ordered nature of parking lot spaces and the |
| stripes and curb markings with little effort, and small | | | | relatively precise measurements involved. It would be |
| expense. | | | | prudent to purchase a tape measure, the kind made |
| Perhaps the most important items that will assist you | | | | of a retractable steel strip, to make sure that each |
| with curb painting are the curb marking stencils. It is | | | | curb marking that you paint is in about the right |
| these sturdy sheets of plastic that, when paint is | | | | position, at an identical distance from other curb |
| applied to the marking-shaped holes in their | | | | markings. |
| structures, facilitate the smooth, well-formed, | | | | Adhesive tape can be your best friend when curb |
| appropriately-sized curb marks that we see at pretty | | | | painting with stencils, since the stencils are prone to |
| much every modern parking lot today. Curb stencils | | | | shifting or flopping away before or while you are |
| come in two varieties - durolast, which is 1/16 of an | | | | painting them. When you've positioned the stencil |
| inch thick and lasts an adequate number of uses, | | | | properly, consider tacking on a few strips of masking |
| making it good for those on a budget, and maxilast, | | | | tape to keep it in place. |
| which is 1/8 of an inch thick and is almost twice as | | | | Lastly, manufacturers of curb stencils recommend |
| expensive, depending on the stencil, but is much | | | | picking up a marking wand to make the painting |
| more durable and lasts longer than durolast. There | | | | process more accurate and less of a hassle. This and |
| are a number of companies that produce an excellent | | | | the aforementioned other simple tools should go a |
| range of quality parking lot curb stencils, and you | | | | long way in making curb painting a less grating |
| would do well to look them up so that you can | | | | experience. |
| purchase their products. | | | | |